furtiveness

Example Sentences

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Cera brings an amusing furtiveness to Eric, but also a devastating sense of the roiling feelings within.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

The gallery also is showing Paolo Morales’s “Between You and Me,” a suite of black-and-white photos that evoke isolation and furtiveness in downscale American suburbs.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2017

I initially reached out to the page’s admins because I love a conspiracy theory, but aside from a general furtiveness, the admins didn’t sound like prosthelytizers, just concerned citizens.

From The Verge • Aug. 25, 2016

“He hung up without answering,” Conner tells the reader; the gesture is meant to be read as furtiveness, not indignation.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2016

It imposed a furtiveness on the loving done on it.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison