Sentence examples for sly use from inspiring English sources

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Pinkney's sly use of nature's camouflage causes us to look more closely.

But, by sheer (scripted) will and luck, and the sly use of that same metal chain, Cena pinned Lesnar and earned the win.

Indeed, he made sly use of it in the title of a memoir in 2007, "The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington" (Crown Forum).

It's the first film in which Bela Lugosi (already renowned thanks to the 1931 "Dracula") and Boris Karloff (famed as Frankenstein's monster, from the 1931 movie) appear together, and Ulmer makes shrewd, sly use of the actors' borrowed identities to tint the action of "The Black Cat".

And then the sly use of words — the "hairy" quadruped (unnecessary for the point but necessary to make the image maximally disturbing) and the dynamite of that tail and those pointed ears, with their specific invocation of the diabolical, and the use of the domestic verb "furnished".

Among the many pleasures of "Basquiat" were Mr. Schnabel's savvy way with a soundtrack, his sly use of celebrities (David Bowie played Andy Warhol, and the director himself was represented by a character played by Gary Oldman), and his interpolation of nonlinear elements to suggest an artist's inner consciousness.

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New ways of moving are at the heart of his work and his dramatic images, especially in sly uses of nudity, and they can be startling.

The Headlong Dance Theater of Philadelphia will close the fall season at D.T.W. with "Ulysses: Sly Uses of a Book by James Joyce," choreographed by David Brick, Andrew Simonet and Amy Smith.

The Philadelphia-based Headlong Dance Theater contitses involvementment in the making and unmaking of narrative in the partly improvised "Ulysses: Sly Uses of a Book by James Joyce," choreographed by David Brick, Andrew Simonet and Amy Smith.

The Turkish culture ministry wouldn't grant licenses to distribute albums of Kurdish music, so his brother had to copy tapes one by one, on the sly, using an old tape recorder and cassettes he smuggled from Iraq.

You cannot formally embed videos sent to channels – you can embed them on the sly using the actual HTML or grabbing to a site like Posterous – but obviously you can embed videos sent to YouTube.

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