Sentences with phrase «with furtive»

It's an intricately constructed, good romp of a movie, with a furtive humor that hits the mark like a curve ball.

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.

Not exact matches

I believe that Muhammad was a furtive alcoholic because he dreamed from a paradise with rivers of wine.

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.

Christopher Howse, however, finds that he's not centrally concerned with the confessional at all: «The real subject of the book is sex, and not the ordinary sex that Mum and Dad enjoyed, or even the romantic adultery of a Paolo and Francesca [da Rimini], but nasty furtive sex — of sex solicited by confessors, abuse of minors, girls or boys, of masturbation, guilt and shame.»

David remains in furtive, fitful love with Keith, a tall, dark, handsome cop with anger - management issues.

I THINK * I say this with fingers crossed and a furtive prayer that I'm not proved wrong * that Summer is finally over here in Kentucky.

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 the gay community sought to define itself, it's not surprising that sex, once furtive and approached with no small amount of fear and shame, suddenly became openly and publicly celebrated and sought after, and in a handful of American cities, the gay scene became the center of a wildly celebratory orgy that lasted until 1981, when the discovery of AIDS led many men to reexamine their sexual habits.

Over time, in furtive and stolen moments, Eliza develops a bond with the creature, communicating with it / him through sign language and offerings of hard - boiled eggs.

Winstead lets her eyes do much of the talking, taking full advantage of her natural expressiveness with a buffet of icy stares, furtive glances and faux vulnerability.

The movie called forth two of the year's most unintentionally hilarious performances, with Sally Hawkins, in the title role, doing lots of precious furtive glances and sneaky smiling, and Ethan Hawke, as her brutish husband, grunting.

But none of it would be worth talking about were it not for the impeccable performances by Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung who say more here with silence and furtive glances than most actors do with dialogue over their entire careers.

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Written and directed by the brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, «Cyrus» is a furtive little farce with a deadpan style all its own.

Half - formed and not really resembling the adult version of itself, Tadpole recasts better movies as situation comedies and in so doing locates itself as a pretty nice (unoriginal) idea with few aspirations beyond inspiring a bidding war at Sundance for its furtive parsing.

He's a successful executive in 1940s New York whose life begins to unbutton when he falls out of love with his wife of many years, Pat (Patricia Clarkson), and into a fine, furtive romance with a younger woman, Kay (Rachel McAdams).

Those with a high tolerance for whimsy may find moments like these sweet and affecting, since Gosling's gesture represents the furtive beginnings of his return to humanity's embrace.

evo's accounts department checks the receipts far too carefully these days, so we make do with some scorchingly sour Haribo and a furtive look at Playboy in a service station near Strasbourg.

«An elegantly written, well - thought - through coming - of - age novel, with the requisite furtive embraces, broken hearts and missed signals.»

It seems these furtive observations paid off: Feed, a National Book Award Finalist, was honored with the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among many other major awards, and dubbed «satire at its finest.»

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.

Subsequently, he began populating these dark, shallow, enclosed spaces with languid and furtive young Hispanic and black males (gay desire).

The situation suggested a magical but haunted funhouse, a furtive rendezvous with a person or persons unknown, and a reminder that the sublime is awe - inspiring and terrifying in equal measure.

The video and accompanying printed rug intersperses furtive recordings of the artist being subjected to a TSA pat down with gameplay footage from Grand Theft Auto.

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.

Seemingly crafted out of countless late nights spent in furtive dialogue with self, nature and others, the show offers suggestions of urban influences and psychological musings that beautifully coalesce into a hypnotic inner world.

We also have to confront how the mismatch between climate change and market domination has created barriers within our very selves, making it harder to look at this most pressing of humanitarian crises with anything more than furtive, terrified glances.

√ ó Chief Tojtxi never forgot his first, furtive contact with the invaders.