Sentence examples for sly double from inspiring English sources

The great goof opens with a sly double entendre regarding "gait" and "gate" but it follows with an inspiration that's as much Jacques Tati as Jerry Lewis, as mechanically precise as it is freely inventive.

He saves most of his flamboyance for the words, which, at their best, are still textbook crisp examples of craftsmanship, full of sly double entendres ("She asked, what have I learned since getting richer?/I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures") and sly single entendres ("She says, 'You're such a dog'/I say, 'You're such a bone' ").

Likewise, the campaign for the Wilkinson Sword hair trimmer is directed at younger men who are presumably less likely to take issue with the sly double entendres about body parts in the videos, which can be watched on the Web site hairoffmystuff.com.

The quick-witted Mr. Ingram's clever wordplays and sly double-entendres made him an idol among his peers.

But its apparent incitement to "raise your voice/start a feud" soon resolves into a declaration of infatuation as much erotic as political, just one of several sly double-takes offered throughout the album.

Less remarked upon is the sly double-edged effect of their films, where colorblind casting or the use of actors with disabilities can function equally as sight gag and social comment, and where the comic traditions of cruelty and mortification are subsumed into a spirit of inclusiveness.

Mr. Clooney doesn't have the usual audience rapport at the start; it takes a while to get ahold of his character, but he broadens his perfect, sly double-takes and finds the right beats to keep up with the Coen regulars, Mr. Turturro, John Goodman and Holly Hunter.

Lauren Lovett is erotic and sly in the double role, but when the real Sebastian (the twin brother Viola is impersonating) enters, in the guise of Kevin Henderson, the actor misses every chance to make something ardent or comic of the obsessed Olivia's brazen overtures.

No sly asides, no double entendres and nary a hint of modern-day gender politics dilute this poetically, if not prophetically, imagined storybook fable embraced in toto by director Kenneth Branagh.

And the number traveling to Cuba on the sly more than doubled in the same period, they said.

The young Ginny was totally baffled by the movie's sly jokes and double-entendres about sex, a subject that had never come up at home.