Sentence examples for coy response from inspiring English sources

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His coy response: "I only made a fairy tale".

By and large, Silicon Valley firms' coy response has typically been a demure: "We are a platform company, not a content company".

I couldn't decipher whether his coy response was specific to his generation or his disposition -- he reminded me of my grandfather, a man who could speak about the solemn intricacies of WWII comfortably, but if the topic of love and relationship entered the equation, he would slightly recoil.

Just as Nâzım Hikmet chose a plain, documentary style rather than the formality of traditional Turkish poetry in order to achieve a heightened sense of realism, Panahi's Taxi, with its artfully staged "reality," is a coy response to the new technological naïveté.

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Those candid on-camera moments, which included Browder's "somewhat coy and awkward responses," helped to accurately represent his character, Furst said. . "We had to find every single second that had ever been recorded or that existed that was a testimony or was a photograph or was a memory of Kalief that we could because our protagonist, our lead character, is no longer with us," Furst said.

This was her game; she was being coy, fishing for my response.

So she "marched, cockeyed" to her computer and composed "something awful that included phrases like 'special understanding' and 'I don't feel like being coy.' Waiting for his response was like keeping my chin up in a room slowly filling with water.

"I don't want to be coy about this: given the responses that I've been getting over the last several months, I have thought about the possibility, but I have not thought about it with the seriousness and depth that I think is required," Mr. Obama said.

And even if you are barred from a flight, the government's response is usually a coy "maybe you're on the list, maybe you're not".

His answer was coy.

(Lady Olivia's response was little more than a coy laugh).

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