Sentence examples for feel coy from inspiring English sources
Afghan leadership should not feel coy about having allies like India that are willing to build the parliament in Kabul and support the democratic process.
This will take the element of control away from the two of you, so neither of you needs to feel coy or embarrassed about making new suggestions.
You just have to be prepared to accept a strain of consciously delicate imagery that could have felt coy but that comes out as persuasively fragile – very knowingly so in a haunting episode involving a roomful of butterflies.
These ploys can feel frustratingly coy, as when the dancers Michael Ingle, Niall Jones, Paul Monaghan and Matthew Rogers smilingly whisper among themselves, never letting the audience quite hear their secrets.
Mr. Banhart's first few releases, which showcased lo-fi production, a nasally voice and precious lyrics about subjects like pumpkin seeds, felt equally coy.
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.
Some of this bad news -- and it still is news in Latin America -- feels predictable or coy in the telling.
For a book set behind the scenes of those pinups, its posture of deliberate innocence feels not just coy but remarkably chaste.
Ms. Loktev's discipline is as impressive as her eye for landscape, but the film's rigorous withholding of narrative information and its resistance to anything that might smack of "drama" feels arch and coy rather than resonant.
"How do you mean?" I felt like acting coy.
