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She reverses the normal scale of female experience, so breastfeeding – too often a secretive and furtive action – is painted as a huge, cosmic activity.

"We chat online, but if we want to meet face-to-face we come here," says a man in his early 20s.The kingdom's larger cities are brimming with social friction and furtive action of this kind.

A thin, taut line of suspense is drawn around the furtive, nervous actions of the book, so that, as with all great crime novels, the pace simultaneously quickens and slackens.

There is no major far-right terrorism issue in the U.K. By contrast, there continues to be a very real threat from Islamist terrorism and more furtive state actions by China and Russia.

For Cahiers' critics, film-going became a furtive activity.

Gallinules are noisy and inquisitive birds, less furtive in their actions than most rails.

Esposito also put much stock in the paperwork that officers must fill out after each street stop.That form includes numerous check boxes, each describing behavior that might lead to a stop, like "furtive movements" or "actions indicative of casing".

The arraignment came a few days before a protest in Harlem on Friday demanding changes in the Police Department's notorious stop-and-frisk policy, which has resulted in the wildly disproportionate selection of blacks and Latinos for "furtive movements," among other actions.

A habit of secrecy that started with a desire to maintain "operational security" — protecting a confidential source — could build until every action became furtive, inverting the intelligence agencies' mantra to "collect everything".

And it is Mark and Scott -- not "Chad and Ted" -- who partake of cigarettes and "furtive man-on-man action".

Two more men are pulling on socks in the gloaming, echoing the athletes in a painting by Degas but in an obliterating darkness that makes their actions look both private and furtive.

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