Sentence examples for sly character from inspiring English sources
Raise the speakers' voices, literally or figuratively, and you risk turning them from sly character studies into comic gargoyles.
But she'll always have that connection to the sly character for which she is most famous.
Vladimir Putin, sly character that he is, noticed that he has an entire air force that spends the vast majority of its time not being involved in a war right now.
The songs are meant, as a character named Pete puts it, to "share the secret formula for happiness" — a sly reference to the famous secret formula for Coca-Cola.
It is performed by Eelco Smits on a minimalist set designed by Jan Versweyveld – light and shadow creep across the stage like sly extra characters.
The ubiquitous quick fixes of social media rendered the kind of in-depth blogging that prophets of citizen journalism had in mind almost immediately obsolete, beyond diehards and obsessives: who wanted to write 1,400 unpaid and unread words when a sly 140 characters would do?
When he points at a Sly Stone-like character (the convincing Raja Kelly), he's really drawing attention to himself.
Delhi comes alive as a character, sly in its enticement of wanderers like Ashraf, and ruthless in its use of them.
On the other hand that last mannerism is perhaps too sly for a character with the go-ahead gusto of Mame.
But Mr. Cummings compensates with his own sly nods: a character growls his distaste for Schoenberg's music in gnarled dissonances; a singles-bar scene romps to the melodic riff from Michael Jackson's "Beat It".
