slinking

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The album was “Transference,” its cover a grainy seventies tableau — a boy slinking low in a golden wingback chair, viridian curtains pooling behind him, a table lamp casting an almost aggressively orange glow.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025

“Water,” the Johannesburg native’s smash 2023 single, is feather-light and elegant, slinking around a deft amapiano beat .

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

K-Ming Chang’s taut novella “Cecilia” explores the intensity of desire by slinking along the razor-thin line between love and obsession, between the desire to cuddle someone or consume them.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Undulating hills slinking off into the misty nothingness of the horizon.

From New York Times • May 20, 2024

‘I wonder how long it will be before we really are caught and all the toiling and the slinking will be over, and in vain.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien