sidelong

As it happened, the state of the world was addressed, sidelong and directly.

There are light topical references — a sidelong joke about the names billionaires give their children, for example — but the show happily lives in its world of day-to-day annoyances and victories.

“I’m turning on you,” Smith replies with a sidelong glance.

Gracus glanced sidelong at this enormous gnat that continued to buzz in his ear.

Against the committee-room grandstanding of popular memory, the series thus fashions the entire Eisenhower era from the raw materials of the closet, from subtext, secrets, sidelong glances and confidential tones.