Shifty physiognomy, it seems, is independent of these things.That shiftiness was also recognised by those whose money was actually at stake.
But when playing the socially challenged Bruce Banner, whose unhinged temperament leads to his transformations into the Hulk, Ruffalo's shiftiness becomes a major selling point.
One of the most chilling pieces of television I've ever seen occurred on 24-hour news networks in December 2010, when Christopher Jefferies, landlord of the flat in Bristol from which 25-year-old Joanna Yeates had disappeared, was pursued down the road on live TV by reporters making heavy insinuations of his shiftiness and guilt.
The episode has conjured an air of shiftiness that cuts against his image.
A dreadful thought is in your mind: a bad performance a drop too many of sweat, a verbal gaffe, a sudden shiftiness in the eyes could strip away the presidential aura and mark the beginning of the end.
Yet there is a slight shiftiness, as if they don't want to let him down – but might.
It is not Eagleton's radical politics that bewilders but his radical Christianity, and, in the end, his shiftiness about his religious belief has the remarkable effect of pushing the reader back onto the stout deck of the dreadnought Ditchkins.
For visiting foreigners, life in Prague, a city of just over a million, has the charm of a place with a much-evident past For the citizens of the city, Prague has an atmosphere of shiftiness and demoralization.
In Clementi's case, the magazine's Ian Parker chalked the harasser's motives up to "shiftiness and bad faith," the kinds of things that criminal statutes can't easily be invoked to cover.
In later life the only impact has been a faint feeling of shiftiness when I'm invited to become a visiting professor, but sooner or later I'll probably say yes to somewhere that asks, if only to see what it's like.
As with the blond Scandinavian bodyguards who attended the Byzantine emperors, their uprightness was all the more starkly evidenced by the shiftiness of the guy they were protecting.
