Sentence examples for sly expression from inspiring English sources

Is this a charming tradition, drawing folks together, or a sly expression of secret rampant egomania?

These contortions are a sly expression of the various forces that this architect had to contend with while designing the building: the tight site, the restrictions imposed by the zoning envelope, the developer's desire to squeeze out as much rentable space as possible.

He usually wears a sly, excuse-me expression, like the young Woody Allen.

He has a sly, freshly liberated expression that you usually see only on guys of 18, when they're finally old enough to escape from their parents, principals and guidance counselors, go off on a trek to Europe and grow a goofy-looking beard.

Neve gave me a sly sideways look.

In this study, four novel E. coli strains that lack the expression of SlyD/SlyX, were engineered using λ-red mediated chromosomal deletion.

§Hemolysis of horse erythrocytes by the strains was considered to be an indication of the expression of SLY.

But he knows how to deploy his half-dozen expressions — the sly grin, the single-eyebrow arch — and is still a welcome sight, where other actors might by this point be overexposed.

Jumblatt is a man of pessimistic temperament fond of throwing up his hands in expressions of sly world-weariness: a born survivor and charmer but considered a political weather vane of the country, the closest thing to an incarnation of consensus.

A sly smile crossed her face.

Conceptual notions about authorship zing around this show, including the artist's sly reversal of painting's "support and expression," since the objects — or supports — are more expressive than the paint.