Sentence examples for rather coy from inspiring English sources

Le Monde also uses the standard, but rather coy French phrase pot-de-vin.

While she played rather coy on the details, she did mention its proposed name: Foodgod 2019.

Yet, despite rather coy denials, he certainly looks as if he is limbering up for a run at the presidency.

But there is a rather coy quality to the media terminology deployed in relation to events in north Africa.

While the Sisters are honest about being neither Catholic nor traditionally religious, they are rather coy about their relationship to nunhood.

This mini-genre of shag-buddy pictures is rather coy (there's only one way, in American movies, that these stories can end).

But she is hampered by an overtly theatrical veneer, and the power plays between her and her fellow dancer, Niall Jones, were rather too coy and identifiable to long engage the mind.

Though the survival expert Tom Maclean was unequivocal in his bid to reaffirm British rights, Hancock's purported rationale for Rockall Solo is rather more coy, using the language of exploration and personal challenge.

Usually, when someone does this, they'll end up conveying a different emotion than they originally intended (befuddlement, for instance, rather than coy amusement).

In the final scenes, Brooker makes an uncompromising move: rather than play coy about the outcome, he forces us to be the audience.

Sears, part of the Sears Holdings Corporation, is joining a lengthy list of marketers challenging competitors rather than using coy terms like "Brand X" or "another leading brand".