Sentence examples for teasing way from inspiring English sources

So Mr. Goolrick adeptly uses a slow, teasing way of revealing himself to the reader.

She wore her honey-colored hair in long girlish braids, and she had a teasing way with us.

Her sweet face, Kewpie-doll mouth, supple tongue and teasing way of pausing before speaking were familiar to two generations.

Despite a hugely complicated cast of characters and Ms. Mantel's teasing way of preferring pronouns to proper names, it wound up providing an experience of sheer bliss.

Laden with dozens of such words, Anathem is as much a code-breaking experience as Cryptonomicon, due to the teasing way Stephenson's neologisms gradually unlock themselves.

In his provocative, almost teasing way, Pope Francis seemed to lean towards that side of the argument when he declared, on a flight across Asia, that if somebody insulted his mother, the offender would get a punch in return.

As Cézanne developed, he grew more teasing in the way he acknowledged that we have two eyes and a swivelling head and tend to see things from various perspectives at once.

Her ebullient personality is evident in her easy, teasing laugh and the restorative way she dances at tribal powwows.

For example, teasing teachers is a good way to gain popularity for students.

When I was a graduate student in Oxford many years ago I shared a house with a brilliant German sinologist who used to push translations my way, stroking his beard with a teasing smile: "Try this – you'll really enjoy it".

(This sincere pleasure rubs up against the sketch's teasing view of its characters, which is typical of the "Portlandia" way).