Thackeray had aspired to be a cartoonist before he took up writing (he unsuccessfully applied to illustrate Dickens's "The Pickwick Papers"), and his wonderful drawings play a sneaky, editorializing role throughout the novel.
Just as Lily helps us grasp the sneaky complexity of power roles, without quite attaining that insight herself, so, too, does she help us look anew at Monet's work without ever breaking into the language of art criticism.
"The United States should stop its role as a sneaky troublemaker sitting behind some nations in the region and pulling strings," a writer specializing in foreign policy said in an article for Xinhua, the state-run news agency.
The results, published in tomorrow's issue of Nature, offer the first evidence that pipefish exert an additional, post-mating control over their offspring and that their pouches play a role in this sneaky selection.
Mr. Bowie has always displayed a sneaky power in small, supporting roles.
Whether playing an internationally feared East German terrorist, a corrupt sheriff in Nottingham, or a sneaky Slytherin, Alan Rickman performed each of his roles with grace and panache.
Guitar plays a more central role on this album too, in sneaky ways.
There is no role as delicious as a truly nasty, sneaky gossipmonger.
Her unlikely partner in crime, Mr. Hobbs Michael Cainee, in a role he has played before), is the company's sneaky janitor.
And bankers can be sneaky — so can Treasury secretaries and Fed chiefs, judging by this week's stories on the government's role in the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch deal.
