Sentence examples for shifty character from inspiring English sources

Their principal designer, as documented in a book by R. L. Chacon called "Why I Made the Cells in Barcelona," was a shifty character named Alfonso Laurencic.

David Paluck's ever-shifting portrayal of a shifty character makes it clear that he is not a villain, that we cannot hate him.

Lastly, Old You probably has a long track record of trying and failing to implement change – and yet you're going to trust this shifty character with your future?

Of course, she blamed his parents, who had somehow, long ago, accidentally or on purpose, raised him as a space alien, with space-alien values, space-alien thoughts, and the hollow, shifty character, concocted guilelessness, and sociopathic secrets of a space alien.

Back at the theater, while screening a melodrama, "Hearts and Pearls," a dejected Keaton falls asleep and dreams himself into the film about a wealthy young woman (played by McGuire) and her beau, thrown into crisis when a necklace is taken by a shifty character (Crane).

Regrettably, Mr. Bolt, whose last book was a biography of another shifty character, Christopher Marlowe, has written — or penned, as he would likely say — this operatic life in a somewhat operatic style, with a weakness for metaphors that are either clichéd or, like that fertilizing dung, just plain odd.

Richie Ashburn, who had the most hits of the 1950s, always thought of pitchers as shifty characters, never to be trusted.

After Doogie, Harris took on a variety of stage and screen roles, sometimes playing distinctly shifty characters.

History is full of shifty characters, antique visionaries, cusp figures, half-crazy oddball innovators, later overlooked because they're hard to pigeonhole.

These purposeful wanderings put him in contact with a profusion of wonderfully shifty characters like Sweet Lemon Charles, a "lifetime thief" turned poet, and a retired assassin named Hush who currently owns a fleet of limousines.

Legal procedures have been streamlined to make it easier for foreign police forces or prosecutors to get help.Yet even so Switzerland has not cast off its reputation as a piggy bank for shifty characters.