Sentences with phrase «on furtive»

Although Jones was often and perhaps even usually copied on Briffa emails, Jones wasn't copied on these furtive emails between Wahl and Briffa.

Instead, his eyes had taken on a furtive quality, as though at any second he would be ready to reach for the taper and strike the small room into life.

Not exact matches

This goal is evident in John Boswell's efforts to establish the marginal, the sometimes tolerated, and even the furtive on an equal footing with the Christian tradition.

It's a treat to see Ritter return to the leather jackets, scarves and fingerless gloves again; her character isn't quite like anything else on television, with furtive glances and desperate gambles revealing some worrisome cracks in her smart - alecky veneer.

Some journalists saw him as a slightly sinister, furtive, cold figure, always pacing the corridors while on his mobile phone, talking almost daily to his close friend George Galloway, whom he addressed as «chief».

FURTIVE web surfers might not be able to rely on their web browser's private mode to hide their tracks.

Remote - sensor cams deployed in a Himalayan valley at altitudes of up to 5,000 meters help ecologists gather data on one of the world's most furtive animals

Interestingly, Ioannidis predicted that more researchers in the field are not necessarily better — especially if they are overly competitive and furtive, like the fractured U.S. intelligence community, which failed to share information that might have prevented the September 11, 2001, terrorist strikes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The film's striking images — an isolated gothic mansard - roofed mansion standing alone on the prairie, the dark silhouette of a scarecrow in the field, an enlarged shoot of grain coming up through the soil, a grasshopper chomping a head of wheat, a wine glass under water following a furtive tryst — are charged with emotion and meaning, never there just for effect.

As Bana's shrink presses Redgrave's furtive, fretful Rose for details about a life glimpsed in increasingly lurid fragments, you're tempted to wish all involved had abandoned the script and allowed a venerated performer to reflect on the many and happier acting opportunities that surely constitute her memories, and ours.

As Nick and Naomi first meet, she puts up her hair, rolls up her sleeves, and gets ready for work; behind her, Nick looms in the background, training a gaze on her back that could only be described as furtive.

Furtive glances are about as close as the two come to an actual relationship, but the film spends an inordinate amount of time on their wishes to be together.

With the help of a former high - ranking Scientologist, Theroux sets out to understand the furtive goings - on of the Church, armed with his irreverent humor and biting irony.

Surreptitiously, Frankie explores his sexual desires for other men, on the internet, and in furtive encounters.

Based on its premise or concept, 21 Jump Street has no right to be anything other than a furtive Hollywood cash - grab.

On the freeway outside Marrakech, the feeling of lightness intensified when we hit the gas at 70 mph and made a quick, furtive burst to 100 mph (there are radar cops everywhere in Morocco).

The race going on between players is what keeps things intense, but you do have to be careful that people don't become too absorbed as you'll find folk hunkering down over their board and the table going silent, only the occasional grunt of frustrating to be heard amid the furtive glances at other boards to see who is doing what.

She's described as a rogue god and some fans theorize she might be the Furtive Pygmy, which — let's not go on a lore dive.

Another curious decision is the lack of online multiplayer, meaning that the only way you can play with others is to rope in some poor unsuspecting bastard and force him to sit on your couch alongside you for a local session, most likely as he casts furtive glances at you and re-evaluates just why you guys are friends in the first place.

Currently, there is a new Game Mode actively being worked on, one shrouded in mystery, alluded to in hushed whispers and furtive glances.

The works were made in secret (he called them «furtive») when the artist and his family were on the run from the Nazis in 1940.

His practice focuses — through video, installation, sculpture and furtive interventions — on the body as both an archive and a territory.

An employee at First Street Gallery, a program for adults with developmental disabilities, Rae creates works from colored pencil and graphite that exude a strange power and sense of menace that depict fierce and frightened - looking women that seem to be hiding or escaping in furtive dream - like adventures, emerging out of or disappearing into ornate floral patterns, shrouded in luxuriant foliage, or on the verge of vanishing into abstraction.

In 1949, seeking to «eradicate smut and vulgarity» from the BBC, the head of variety banned their use unless the ceiling light was also on, believing the light from the lamp alone would» provoke furtive ideas and produce degenerate material».