Примеры shifty

• Her heroes are always fair of form and strong in jaw line, while her villains are correspondingly flabby and shifty-eyed.

• The system is highly organized, but the text/body itself, because of its nature as text, remains a shifty haze of signs.

• Current models of the creative process in cultural theory remain either silent or shifty about this sort of question.

• Adjectives in -y/-ie can also frequently be metaphorical (lippy, shifty) and occasionally truncated (bolshie).

• Does history move against a ground of some kind, the also shifty ground of 'meaning,' if not the supposedly stabler ground of 'nature'?

• But many shifty crooks and nasty people are involved in the worldwide trade in ivory.

• Cameras can make the phoney look truthful, and the truthful shifty.

• Will we have the chance for such debates, or will we continue to have such shifty debates when we do not discuss the fundamental issues?

• I thought that he was a bit shifty.

• The answers that we were given were evasive and shifty.

• I do not know whether they had in mind people who looked a bit shifty or people with funny accents.

• He is shown up to be shifty and incompetent, but, luckily, he will not be here very much longer.

• They have put forward a defence which is, at best, casually inadequate and, at worst, plain shifty.

• Because, however, society has largely ostracised them, the good and the bad, they tend to be suspicious and what people call shifty.

• They are not people who have shifty eyes.