Sentence examples for slightly coy from inspiring English sources

If anything, this exhibition is slightly coy about the violence inherent in Aztec culture.

The mission statement that preceded one meal ("We are a modern American public house," the waiter intoned) was both unnecessary and slightly coy about Mr. Lyons's ambitions.

So when Walsh said simply, and not specifically, "We'll go after the best players we can get for this team" and "I haven't focused on any one thing," he was being slightly coy but also practical.

The motivation behind this latest project is a slightly coy conceit: "I had asked Maud Kristen, a clairvoyant who reads cards, to tell me my future so that I could go to meet and overtake it".

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson were slightly coy when they explained what went into filming their "Fifty Shades of Grey" sex scenes.

Be pleasant, somewhat coy and mature.

"Men of a Certain Age," which has its premiere Monday on TNT, has a coy, slightly French title, and one that is actually quite apt.

And a similar spirit — coy, tender, slightly melancholic — infuses "Jellyfish," a collaboration between the Israeli fiction writer Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen, his wife.

"In the original Disney film it is an incredibly sweet, slightly saccharine place where people sing rather coy songs about flowers – whereas in other versions it is much darker, and perhaps closer to Carroll's original vision".

Granholm appears slightly nervous in the show, but still manages to ask coy questions and even do a brief dance.

The work seems composed to be symmetrically balanced towards an accompanying right-hand wing: Mary is positioned slightly to the right of centre, while her downward, almost coy glance is directed at a space beyond the edge of the panel, suggesting that she is looking at, or in the direction of, a kneeling donor in a right-hand wing.