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A well-chosen image — even the most over-obvious one you can possibly think of — can slyly push us into a kind of dreamlike state, slipping past our conscious mind and burrowing down to our subconscious.
Succession turns a box of doughnuts into a stealthy statement about abuse | Emily VanDerWerff | October 25, 2021 | VoxSandground liked to tell stories that slyly doubled as publicity.
Mark B. Sandground Sr., Machiavellian divorce lawyer, dies at 88 | Bart Barnes | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostSDG&E slyly allows the fiction to persist that it pays the franchise fees, though at least one City Council member noted that nearly all of that money is collected from us – SDG&E’s customers.
San Diego Has More Leverage in Franchise Fee Deal Than It’s Letting on | Craig D. Rose | January 6, 2021 | Voice of San Diego
“The world is porous and full of holes…so you just find the cracks,” Austin says slyly.
A Most Illegal Adventure with New York City’s Wildest Underground Event Planners | Nina Strochlic | December 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“I like the symbolism,” Ware says slyly before reaching for a shopping cart.
He was a shy, abrupt, slyly witty, and intensely thoughtful man.
Leaving the Atocha Station A widely acclaimed debut novel with a slyly self-conscious look at a young poet just passing the time.
slyly moving past the bushy eye-browed front clerk, I ran upstairs to my mother.
That is,' he slyly added, 'unless your father has already made a will, disinheriting you.'
The Staircase At The Hearts Delight | Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)She moves slyly among the bracken, and her exquisite scent serves to guide her unerringly as she works up wind.
The Chequers | James RuncimanThere was Old Slade, from over on the bluff opposite, slyly cutting a sliver of salt fish from one in the bale upon which he sat.
The Rival Campers Afloat | Ruel Perley SmithAdelaide turned her quiet face, unflushed, unruffled, and neither laughed sillily nor looked slyly.
Barbara glanced at his thoughtful, strong face from under the edge of her picture-hat, which slyly she had rearranged.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward White
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