But these always seem furtive, no sooner achieved than regretted.
The tea shops fill up, locals crowd the bookstalls on Pansodan Road, and the city, which seems furtive and depressed by day, becomes a communal stage.
Police stopped — and sometimes frisked — pedestrians on any number of suspicious grounds: Their movements seemed "furtive," as if they were casing a victim, acting as a lookout, or selling drugs.
October has never been the same since, and parents of trick or treaters still seem furtive and overly careful.
And so the dance seems fugitive, furtive, oppressed, but at other times resolute, unstoppable.
Diary keeping is meant to be -- or at least to seem -- furtive; and the reader of the diary cannily made public is meant to feel a little like a snoop.
If my earlier encounters with fellow green thumbs had at times seemed vaguely furtive and illicit, that I was now giving plants away to strangers only made my actions seem more suspect.
When it is not exploring the Anfield mum's "fashion secrets", it is unsheathing her "secret weapon" for live shows, or lifting the lid on her "secret dance record" with a Liverpool DJ (for a woman aiming at national exposure, she seems remarkably furtive).
For all the committees and other such "input" opportunities available to students, the administration consistently acts in such a way as to make us wonder why our administrators seem so furtive, even if they are acting toward an overall best interest.
Rather than a smiling, beatific man with male-model looks, he is gaunt and somewhat furtive, seeming uncomfortable with his growing celebrity.
