slyly

While Rittenhome casually declaws Rob Morrow’s crusading attorney, Scorsese slyly plays off the audience’s familiarity with his dark, violent crime films.

The “Alligator Alcatraz” storefront is cartoon gators slyly winking at us from under red baseball caps: It’s just a joke, and you’re in on it.

And chunks of cooked zucchini were slyly thrown into soups and spaghetti.

Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the outrage and heartbreak he himself feels about the dark course our world has taken.

The stars slyly become the circumference of the U.S. presidential seal.