Sentence examples for shy glance from inspiring English sources

It seems that while he was contemplating the many choices stacked up in the long freezer in front of the cashier, a woman in line behind him slid open the glass case, said "Excuse me" after a shy glance and a little smile, and pulled out a pint of Ben & Jerry's Makin' Whoopie Pie.

A smattering of hands but no volunteers, just shy glances.

The zoo, to judge by the shy glances, is more of an ark.

You can feel the joy he takes in summoning the characters into being as "Venice" begins, assessing the actors with sly and shy glances as they appear onstage.

That was when Charlie exchanged shy glances with the most beautiful warrior, who has scar-tissue designs coiled like railroad tracks over the rigorous architecture of his chest and shoulders and back.

She's nice and poor, he's mean and rich, and you know exactly where — after the shy glances, drama and wall-to-wall tunes — they are going: chaste kiss and fade to black.

His courtship and marriage to a medical student named Jo (Aunjanue Ellis) follows the usual path from shy glances in the library to the inevitable showdown over Brashear's obsessive, even reckless commitment to his job.

But there's something irresistible about watching two people fall in love, even in contrived, sniffle- and sometimes gag-inducing films like "Last Chance Harvey," which means that when he looks at her and she looks at him, there's a good chance that they won't be the only ones in the theater falling for all the hokey lines and shy glances.

Upstairs at the buffet, a young Korean girl gave me a series of shy glances.

The muted eroticism they project is of a piece with the shy, knowing glances of Sissy Spacek in Terrence Malick's "Badlands," the classic 1973 film in which youth and desire are like succulent giblets tossed down the American maw.

It's all shy smiles and seductive glances.