Example sentences
Still, here was the author's attempt to allow opposites-peril and bliss, furtive lovers and traditional family-to harmonize.Last season's ending was pyrotechnic, furtive, dramatic and fraught.
Entrapment has long been a factor in the enforcement of vice laws, which seek to punish behavior that is furtive and widespread.These earliest mammals were small, furtive creatures.
And their furtive huddling and divided sympathies do hold some perceptive ironies on human behavior.
The nature of her occupation kept her to furtive corners and the dark side of streets.
Remember, the officer doesn't know who you are at this point and may feel threatened by any furtive movements.
My furtive hour-long expeditions gave way to daylong escapes.
Here, appellant's furtive movements and unwillingness to keep her hand out of her pocket warranted a protective pat-down search.
But that was not why fishermen were giving him furtive, curious glances.