Sentence examples for sly about from inspiring English sources
There's something marvellously sly about the way he assumes consensus around his off-kilter take on the world.
If you don't want to overtly feature philosophical ideas in your novel, how sly about it can you be before the effect is lost?
They are warmly welcomed and fed, and then they put on a play before Sly about the taming of Kate the shrew.
Paul has been sly about positioning on this, however; at the Value Voters conference earlier this month, Paul gave a rousingly xenophobic speech heavy on Biblical allusions to Muslims' perfidy… he just declined to say we should bomb them.
Since then, Assad has been sly about escalating his savagery by degrees — artillery, then aerial bombardment, then Scud missiles and now, apparently, chemical weapons — while staying just below whatever threshold of horror might shame us into responding.
The themes of innocence and sin percolate in Mr. Gomes's century-straddling, stylistically heterogeneous narrative, but he is interestingly sly about how they are distributed between past and present.
You get good, sly jokes about Erwin Schrödinger and good, dumb gags about "Forbidden Planet" all at once.
It's a scenario that would lend itself to a chilling horror film about demonic possession, or a coming-of-age drama about female empowerment and sexuality, or a sly comedy about adolescent histrionics.
As Able and Sly are about to skip town, Able contrives to swindle his boss.
This duet has a cool syncopated beat and sly lyrics about the erotic pull of playing hard to get.
