Sentence examples for sense spy from inspiring English sources

There is ground for suspicion, for example, that one of Moscow's prisoners the physicist Igor Sutyagin, sentenced in 2004 to 15 years was in fact an innocent researcher who legitimately consulted but did not in any meaningful or nefarious sense "spy" for the West.

The German chancellor herself said: "Viewed with good common sense, spying on friends and allies is a waste of energy.

In one sense the spying revelations show that other nations have little to complain about.

But that sense of spying's limitations vividly coloured Lord Butler's report, last summer, on WMD, intelligence and Iraq, and has not left the minds of the queen's secret servants since.

As Kenneth Baker wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mr Richter gives viewers "an uncomfortable sense of spying on one man's analytical obsession with how painting works".This analytical obsession is on view in SoHo.

Inspired in part by video of Glenn Gould singing to himself as he played, the work had the same quality that gave Gould's performances so much of their power: the sense of spying, of watching something you weren't supposed to see.

Yet this is (in more than one sense) no straightforward spy thriller.

It was Le Carré's third novel (after the highly creditable Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality) but there is a clear sense in The Spy of a writer hitting his stride with resolute confidence.

I wanted to look at it from a slightly different perspective, which was that if you are aware that your country would not employ you, or would prosecute you for your sexuality, are you in a sense made a spy by your country?

ADAM GOPNIK: Yes, in the sense that they spied that life with us beat life in the wild as much as we spied that life with pets beat life without them.

We cut back inside the house and see them through the window; for an instant, we sense them being spied on, as if by the eye of fate.