Sentence examples for coy object from inspiring English sources
When, in London, she positions herself so disingenuously as the coy object of desire between Ms. Gleicher and the childhood friend, it's almost amazing she gets away with it.
I object to Mr. Walker's format: the coy little tables with candlesticks, the period dress of the actors (in particular Mr. Roebuck's ghastly red smoking jacket).
Mr. Wang was coy about discussing reports that he has claimed to use psychic power to move heavy objects, and he said his performances involving conjuring snakes from thin air were "tricks" to amuse friends.
Works like these tip over from photography into sculpture, but Mr. Foerster still has some work to do in this second medium; his larger found-object sculptures, like the doubled-over bed frame or the single piece of bent aluminum, are irritatingly coy.
There is something sentimental at the heart of any museum whose reason for being is to celebrate the affection we feel for objects that were once part of everyday life, but the Riverside Museum has a boldness that transcends coy nostalgia.
