Sentence examples for play shy from inspiring English sources
Soon the dog will begin offering "play shy" for a treat.
The next step is to mark the behavior with a hand signal (putting hand over side of face in similar manner) and calling it "play shy".
But "Two Can Play" shies away from serious emotional risk.
The performing arts have played shy suitor to the Park Avenue Armory.
When the actor played shy superhero Simon in E4's Misfits, she was "upset when everyone was being mean to my character", Rheon relates with a laugh.
EA still wants to buy Take 2, it's true, and Take 2 is still playing shy.
Playing shy with photographers is a common practice for Fisher.
And then at Christmas, I'm in this Victoria Wood piece That Day We Sang, a musical in which I play a shy woman who dreams of singing like Shirley MacLaine".
Ken Loach's Scottish discovery Martin Compston adopts a cockney accent to play a shy, mild-mannered London messenger boy who goes into a deep depression following the murder of his beloved elder brother by a band of hooligans.
And there is already considerable buzz about Robert Altman's "Company," a backstage ballet film scheduled to open in December, with remakes following next year of "Dirty Dancing" (set in Cuba under the title "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights"), and "Shall We Dance?," in which Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez play the shy businessman and the beautiful ballroom dance teacher of the 1997 Japanese film.
