Example Sentences

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The players follow her, including a major star known only as Player X, who Michael Cera — in a wonderful, insinuatingly creepy performance — turns into a portrait of Hollywood entitlement and moral rot.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2017

He slips gracefully in and out of time frames and reality frames and rendering her dreams with an insinuatingly quiet power that’s amplified by their unexaggerated practical naturalism.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 28, 2016

Parker's Moose the Mooche theme began as a rumble at the piano's bottom end, and hovered insinuatingly there before the uptempo floodgates opened.

From The Guardian • Apr. 14, 2010

It’s an outing that skillfully marries Neil’s insinuatingly catchy and melodic pop-rock with the more expansive and experimental jam-rooted music Liam has specialized in on several solo albums he’s released over the last decade.

From Los Angeles Times

“I know Meg would wet-blanket such a proposal, but I thought you had more spirit,” began Laurie insinuatingly.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott