Sentence examples for something clandestine from inspiring English sources

But in a world where digital imaging dominates visual culture, there is something clandestine about the gesture.

"And sometimes I have the childish illusion that we are hidden there, in the half-light, as if for a conspiracy, a plot, something clandestine and pleasantly dangerous.

She could have just as easily gotten into drugs or become anorexic as long as it was something secret, clandestine, forbidden.

"It's a very sobering thing for Americans, who tend to be so upfront dealing with everything, to be faced with something so clandestine and unknown".

The scope of something so clandestine is inherently difficult to pin down, but the number of insider-trading referrals to the S.E.C. from FINRA, the financial industry's self-regulatory body, keeps going up.

In those days couscous was something of a clandestine affair.

But as a soft drizzle fell on Saturday night, the stones felt something new — a clandestine bicycle race.

It builds on the Faulknerian novelist Juan Benet's assertion that by the 1960s, there was already "something like a clandestine democracy, even though democracy didn't exist".

The artist's standard response to questions about the intrigue behind the paintings suggests that he acquired something of the clandestine mind-set in his months inside Vauxhall Cross, the agency's headquarters in central London, and on trips to MI6 stations in Afghanistan, Africa and eastern Europe.

It can be difficult to get traction on something truly, explosively clandestine in our highly disclosing world, which may be one reason O'Farrell has set her latest novel, "Instructions for a Heatwave," in 1976 London, a time and place more conducive to the keeping of secrets.

"It wasn't something that was clandestine," Robertson said.