Sentences with phrase «sidelong glances»

His career might almost be defined as a series of sidelong glances at the doings of artists like Vito Acconci, Mr. Smithson, Bruce Nauman, Alice Aycock (to whom he was married in the early 1980s) and Claes Oldenburg.

[pq] The show takes a kind of romp through current figuration, casting sidelong glances at issues such as the conversation piece, society portraiture and new allegories of the self.

If you're yelling about your love for the Yankees at a funeral, for instance, you'll probably earn a few sidelong glances and disapproving looks.

On each lovely nymph attended her gay beau, who in her chance or sidelong glances ever watched an opportunity of reading his happiness.

There will be a brief sidelong glance at a landscape, and then he's drawing it.

You love everything from the suggestive sidelong glances to the naughty text messages that crescendo into a passionate sexcapade.

After Aitch haltingly admits to Gal that Logan will be arriving shortly from London, it's apparent from the many sidelong glances exchanged by the two couples that extracting the boulder from the pool will be a cakewalk compared to getting rid of Logan.

A reference to «I Love Lucy» precedes a trademark Roberts Lovable Pratfall, and phrases like «independence frightens them» and discussions of the veracity of art send the more self - aware among us casting meaningful sidelong glances at each other.

Three new histories take only sidelong glances at the war itself, instead examining such aspects as motivation, political maneuvering and the significant people who never achieved the status of «Founding Fathers.»

We give each other sidelong glances as we glide by making mental lists and texting our partners.

Obsidian eyes confront the viewer, from sidelong glances to lens like focus.

The more sidelong glances I took, the more I had to agree with them.

It also drew quite a few sidelong glances, with people probably thinking, «there's a man with a mid-life crisis firmly in his grasp».

As I made my gallery visits I rode up and down with some guy I did not recognize but who seemed to be casting sidelong glances at me.

«Alexa, reorder Doritos from Prime Air,» she commands with a sidelong glance.

If we are raising the question of the basis and meaning of our life as Christians... then this can easily conceal a sidelong glance at what we suppose to be the easier and more comfortable life of other people, who will «also» get to heaven.

As long as I ignored the sidelong glances of my concerned, horrified companions, nothing would stand between me and my coveted french toast.

For every sidelong glance thrown my way, I've earned a compliment on Instagram.

Thanks so much, Lisa, I've become somewhat impervious to the stares and sidelong glances (at long last) xoxo

It's told in undertones and sidelong glances, gathering its strength from the inexorable tides of fate and the offhand caprices of nature that reflect the essential chaos at the centre of every man's character.

Director Sebastian Leilo (recently an Oscar winner for last year's A Fantastic Woman) refrains from overplaying the potentially melodramatic material, instead keeping the drama to a series of terse exchanges, sidelong glances, and meaningful faces.

With his shock of hair, sidelong glances and shy, head - bobbing demeanor, he's a bit of a fantastic beast himself, though one who will wear well over subsequent films.

He starts to see a conspiracy forming with every dodged inquiry regarding missed expense reimbursement and a sinister plot behind the eyes of every sidelong glance.

To that end, I wouldn't be surprised if people give nothing but a sidelong glance to The Conjuring, a period - piece spookfest based on the real - life «cases» of paranormal investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren (played here wonderfully by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga).

One odd quirk was the pointy rear door — you'll be noting it in a sidelong glance when you pull it open.

Some meet her gaze with a sharp, sidelong glance that pierces the clouds of her memory, and then she remembers them from Saba'ad: he rented out a wheelbarrow, he volunteered at the clinic, he sold goat milk.

Occasionally she catches the sidelong glances he casts her way and can't ignore the fluttering in her stomach when he is around, though he more than intimidates her.

And if you do get a sidelong glance for not dropping your r's, so what?It's a pittance to pay for the pleasure of putting away a plate of Farnham's clams — their gossamerthin cornflour coating crisped to the goldenest of browns, the briny clams firm but moist inside, tasting ineffably of the shallow waterway - slashed landscape just yards beyond the edge of your picnic table.

Each series traces a circuitous path, casting a sidelong glance toward the unrealized goals and desires of past creators.

Horn, seated beside him, gave Kjartansson a sidelong glance.

The kids would give me peturbed, sidelong glances.