Sentence examples for a rather sly from inspiring English sources

It's a rather sly, belittling billing for the Primals.

The tone is the tone of a schoolmaster, but a rather sly schoolmaster, who won't let you completely in on the joke.

But it's also a unique one, haunting and rather sly.

This is logical - a smirk doesn't convey open, candid happiness, but rather sly amusement.

The subject is a winner; there's just far too much of the people in proportion to the wildlife, and the "live" aspect is bound either to disappoint or to require rather sly detours.

The price is rather sly, too, at Y800 each, and by now the budget's getting tight so we start hanging out in games arcades; bigger places have their own "maid cafés".

Nor did she lose her rather sly, flirtatious smile, her beguiling manner ("I work awfully hard, but Mummy has all the charm," her daughter Elizabeth once said) or her easy way with the public.

One rather sly counter-argument to that is journalists are self-deluded into thinking they are moderates.

A naive beguilement rather than sly irony frames Rushdie's accounts of hanging out with such very famous people as Jerry Seinfeld and Calista Flockhart.

This is a sly way of acknowledging that, a hundred years ago, anarchists had a rather different reputation.

Imagine my surprise, then, when "Casanova" turned out to be not a bewigged and brocaded white elephant, but rather a lively, sly and altogether charming farce.