" They are "mournful and slinking, crushed beneath their yoke.
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By 22011, Nate Fox was tired of slinking through shadows.
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The shadow of Saddam Hussein perhaps slinking down a darkened corridor.
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"It's not illegal, it's just procurement," the tea hustler said, slinking off.
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They pond Listen to swallowed air withering in pails of water slinking.
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In viral memes and YouTube videos, cats are slinking into the background.
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It diverted her, kept bad thoughts from slinking back into her head.
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November is slinking its way into our lives, introducing the official holiday season.
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Slinking off outside, I struck up conversation with a guy smoking a cigarette.
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Unsavory lines aside, he drags his voice across the track, slinking like a zombie.
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Despite what the record's title suggests, this is something more slinking, subdued, and strange.
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"I was slinking around and not really showing up and not contributing," she said.
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To see how slinking is done right, they needed only look to their forefathers.
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His dead-eyed stare and accompanying mutton chops slinking down the side of his cheeks.
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"Come Alone" beckons you into another strange trip, with slinking, patient rhythms buoying uncanny quicksilver vocals.
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She stalks Hince as he furiously picks his guitar strings, charging toward him before slinking back.
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They intentionally doing a lot of slinking around in a way that's pretty similar to cats.
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Slinking out of the dark and blinded by tacky, halogen lighting, I spot what I'm after.
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The Pelicans ended up winning, 110-96, sending fans slinking out of the Garden in dismay.
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There's one exception: "Shape of You", a veritable electrobanger, slinking mechanically over a pitched percussive bubblesynth.
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The snake shot forward to bite and struck the boxer dog on the nose before slinking off.
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Then your cat comes slinking in from the garden and you get a notification on your smartphone.
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Over a slinking beat, Offset holds down a choppy chorus, checking off racks, steak, dons, and Amazonian women.
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Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party's history.
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Instead of revving like an engine trying to drive ever onward, my mind slowed, slinking sideways and inward.
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Some of the dogs looked like they were being dragged, slinking down as the snow hit their faces.
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Even the most jaded veterans were slinking down in their seats to angle their phones at the screens.
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He makes tables appear when it seems there are none, slinking through bodies like the subtlest maître d'.
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These were not silvery, romantic mists slinking through latticed rooftops; this was a miasma of damp and despair.
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There's only one season standing between us and Jessica slinking off into New York and leaving us behind forever.
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Snap is already slinking its way into consumer electronics with the launch of the brilliantly marketed Spectacles in November.
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You can't quite dance to it, but I bet it's perfect for slinking through some kind of secret afterparty.
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Lions slinking against jeep tires, with buffalo blood on their noses, the guides whispering and turning off the engines.
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As she climbed, the person she was, that skinny slinking girl with the bad skin and teeth, fell away.
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It's a groggy morning for me, and I wind up slinking into the building 10 minutes past the first bell.
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If you see Elio and Oliver slinking around the Italian villa, it's out of a sense of mischievousness, not fear.
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Still, there's something off about the hostess, who's slinking around barefoot wearing a vacant smile and a long white dress.
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"FATHER OF THE YEAR" opens with unpretty views of a trailer park and a grungy, longhaired David Spade slinking about.
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I went to the clotheslines out back, slinking along the rear of the cottages as if I were a spy.
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The record continues Block's penchant for slinking grooves coupled with esoteric samples and wry song titles (see the loopy "Festival Paramedics").
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She sells more blow to pay the lawyer who has taken on Blue's case, slinking into clubs, dime bags in hand.
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Mars has been slinking around in Scorpio, so expect the energy to kick up now that it's in Fire sign Sag.
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And even if the message is unclear, his gracefully slinking delivery drives home at least one part of its spectral intent.
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A few show up in "American Made" either as fictionalized supporting characters or as themselves, smiling and slinking in archival images.
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As always, her playing was technically flawless and deeply expressive: her vibrato saturated with meaning, her lyricism slinking and menacingly enigmatic.
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Congress wrapped up one of its most inglorious weeks in recent memory today, slinking out of town under heavy clouds of scandal.
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The songs here unpredictably expand and contract, like the slinking single "Invenção," the year's most colorful and exciting offering from the genre.
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Intentionally or not, she showed there's a difference between slinking away and sticking your head up, knowing it will be cut off.
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In those charmed days I had the coy, luminous aspect of a starlet in shades, slinking into a luxury resort, location undisclosed.
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With its slinking, minimalist beats and coldhearted dope-dealer raps, ShorelineDoThatShit thrust Shoreline Mafia into a vibrant scene at its inflection point.
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"It was good," he said after the event, slinking into a chair and exhaling for perhaps the first time in an hour.
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And they work hard to suppress the frustration imbued by Paris every time she quietly mumbles "That's not cute" before slinking off.
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More likely, though, he'll end up slinking off to wherever McMaster and Rex Tillerson hang out to quietly burnish his own reputation.
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They take refuge in an abandoned house that turns out to be the former location of Move, inhabited by slinking dancer ghosts.
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Below is the video for said song, which finds him slinking and dancing through dark streets, interpretive dancing, preening, posturing, and making out.
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The urge to merge will definitely be strong — but also sexy, since passion planet Mars is slinking through sultry Scorpio for all of July.
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Gone is the Victorian London setting, 19th-century literature's best monsters, and Eva Green slinking around in the best black clothing money can buy.
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A leopard is seen slinking around a back alley in the Aarey Milk Colony, a suburb of Mumbai that borders Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
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The slinking creature uses this fearsome motility to propel a pair of venomous claws toward its prey with the style of a professional killer.
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Suffice it to say that the combination of those new districts and Donald Trump has sent still more House Republicans slinking off in despair.
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Barton checked the cameras the next day, and sure enough, they recorded a wolf slinking through the area in the middle of the night.
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Now men are leaving, slinking off into the night without explanation — except for one, whose exit note says he has gone to the moon.
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You may find yourself having better sex during this transit, since your planetary ruler will be slinking through the sexiest part of your chart.
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In the spy world, that would be KGB agents like Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings of The Americans, slinking around D.C. in during the Cold War.
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The record's eight tracks are appropriately slow, dark, and slinking, full of the haze and the mystery of lands that give the project his name.
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Her skill at rendering these spaces is remarkable, the smells of smoke and honey wafting through stone corridors and nameless cats slinking along secret passageways.
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The song itself is slinking and somber, but there's a strange peace to the video, suggested by the repeated act of greeting a new day.
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With Matthew, the storm did some of its worst damage when it was "just" a Category 23.6 storm, slinking along the coast of the Carolinas.
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I was a sophomore in college, slinking into my final exams, leaving meals at the dining hall early, sometimes before my friends even finished eating.
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You don't have this shady figure slinking around trying to puppeteer all these different threads and trying to shift them all to his own interests.
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You would be forgiven for initially mistaking the white trail of paint slinking across the gallery floors as another one of the Brutalist building's quirks.
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The large, spotted cat slinking past littered streets and aluminum sided homes, was like something one of the city's poets might include in a line.
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And whose own son, Jared Corey Kushner, was now one of the most powerful people in a new and uncertain world slinking again toward darkness.
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She is straight-shooting and charismatic, a bit past her prime but slinking her way in and out of men's lives — always to their detriment.
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Together, they bring a modern spin on the classic "You're a Mean One," turning the slinking tune into a whimsical ride supported by a children's choir.
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She also tells a room of her father's potential clients—while slinking like a brat along the wall—that her friend Laura has just been murdered.
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Constantly slipping from one rhythm to another, slinking around in patterns known only to the gears grinding away underneath, he always keeps you on your toes.
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But even when the inevitable arrives, it feels inevitably surprising, slinking toward us through a garden of possibilities that grows wider as our steps grow smaller.
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Willem Dafoe, the whites of his eyes shining, is there, too, slinking around as Ballard, a Western prisoner who long ago also sought the black powder.
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Looks like she's in love with her current beau, and isn't interested in slinking back to Magro, who, yes, called his ex-girlfriend a "hoe" on Sunday.
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Instead of these executives slinking away after the companies they run get caught behaving badly — or sticking around without consequences — she wants them to go to jail.
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That didn't stop Cochingo from doing it—spinning through the air like Sheik, slinking along the floor like Bayonetta, and planking like the soulless corpse of Luigi.
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A few years ago, she would have performed it in while slinking assertively about the stage, but at the Town Hall she was stuck in the chair.
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Paak collaboration "Dang!" turns this soulless concrete lot into a dimly-lit nightclub for four minutes, Miller's matter-of-fact confidence slinking out past his cheeky smile.
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Lohan, who spends her days slinking around Europe, emerges periodically to remind us that she's still making moves — she was recently announced as the new face of Lawyer.
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The culprit in question: a black silk bomber jacket that was slinking off of the petite singer's slight shoulders, on the brink of falling onto the stage floor.
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You know what a fox is — the sly, sneaky and stunning creature that is often spotted slinking around in the snow or through the trees of the forest.
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Moderat, the collaborative project between the slick German futurists in Modeselektor and Apparat, have shared a video for "Reminder," the slinking single from their forthcoming full-length III.
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So next time you see a random pizza delivery guy slinking his way through your office, remember: he may be there to do more than just deliver lunch.
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Don't worry, Cancer, lots of loving (and fun, and creative inspiration) will come your way this month, thanks to seductive Venus slinking into sexy Scorpio on September 23.
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A slinking, screeching metaphor disguised as a children's nightmare, he's imbued with unholy scare powers thanks to the actors who embody the fractured family upon whom he preys.
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The elite and privileged might always exist but we can still demand a meritocracy rather than slinking away quietly and accepting it with our tails between our legs.
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This full moon is in Taurus—a lush, green spring-time sign that symbolizes creativity and luxury, unlike you, slinking Scorpio, the sign of death, decay, and rebirth.
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The Brightside alpha predator will stealthily approach its target, slinking from boulder to boulder, and then charge up to speeds of one-hundred-and-eighty miles per hour.
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The continual parade of oddities includes a talking dog, an androgynous actor slinking around near-naked like a Vegas chorus girl, bits from Pasolini's "Teorema," simulated necrophilia and more.
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While MetLife and their friends at PuppyKittyNYCity have been searching for #BlackCat, reports have bubbled up that the football-loving feline isn't the only meower slinking around the stadium.
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Perhaps, for example, perpetrators could engage in a more sophisticated manner with the public rather than always slinking off to their private lives to, supposedly, think about their actions.
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Seth Meyers took a short break from the swirling horrors of the 2020 election and coronavirus epidemic this Tuesday, focusing instead on other terrible things slinking beneath the radar.
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The two argue intensely, with Margaret reading the cruel notes Tony leaves for her in her books and Tony escalating things so intensely that Roddy ends up slinking away.
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Athame has come slinking down from the hills of Appalachia to bestow an uncannily strong debut recording upon those who crave a Luciferian touch in their doom-influenced black metal.
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I often feel like a curmudgeonly troll slinking down there on the weekends while it's 85 degrees outside and my housemates and friends are out gardening, bicycling, swimming, and hiking.
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While MetLife and their friends at PuppyKittyNYCity have been searching for the cat, reports have bubbled up that the football-loving feline isn't the only kitty slinking around the stadium.
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Plus, the sheer amount of WTFery on display means there'll be plenty to discuss after, giving you guys an excuse to hit the bar instead of just slinking back home.
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The actor Khary Payton has done a marvelous job of extending the character beyond his colorful accouterment — the elaborate wig, the slinking pet tiger — to create a cohesive, winning personality.
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But to any non-geocachers — those in the culture refer to them as Muggles — the two men slinking around the southwest corner of Central Park might have looked vaguely suspicious.
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Before slinking off to make time with Colin, Lucca offers a valuable suggestion: an appeal board that would allow members suspended for hate speech a chance to make their case.
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One uncanny sequence has Gladys slinking, over and over, down the short hallway from her door to her grandson's, knocking and crying out in a deepening state of confusion and despair.
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There wasn't any cack-handed dropper-dropping on Uber, no sheepishly slinking into the sticky leather of a stranger's Benz to score a sachet of something you shouldn't really be buying.
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Somewhere in the dark expanses between the Earth and the moon, slinking about a space station abandoned by its crew under mysterious circumstances, I found a literal skeleton in a closet.
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You, Taurus, are all about being comfortable, lounging on spring's green grass in the warm sun—not slinking around some dark pit with the scorpions, watching (and smelling) things rot and decay.
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But this is a strategy for victory, not a pathway to slinking away, nor a bank shot that enables us to ultimately shift power back to Assad in the name of stability.
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It's possible to play with a mixture of the two approaches, but this isn't Dishonored, a game that encourages players to alternate between slinking through the shadows and out-and-out violence.
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As he sits in their kitchen, the camera slinking about, Lena's surprise gives way to happiness and then to mounting wariness that, like some kind of contagion, soon slithers under your skin.
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DuBois, who sees that whatever their faults, the Lyons are doing something right if they can produce art this loving; and it shames Lucious, the show's arch-villain, into quietly slinking away.
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Alcoholism runs on both sides of my family, and I began to have my own reckoning with the countless nights spent sloshed with friends, slinking out of dive bars at 3 a.m.
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The coyote was able to get into the convention center by slinking past a security checkpoint set up near where a boat show was loading into the center on Sunday night, reports The Tennessean.
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Lamar and SZA, arguably two of the most charismatic performers in contemporary music, delivered an unforgettable duet, playfully slinking around the stage and swapping verses while a galaxy of stars was projected over their heads.
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Nary a single hairball, an exhibit dedicated to the world of felines in art has burst forth with a fur(r)y, slinking through a timeline from the 19th century craze to our internet obsession.
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Slinking past coworkers toward the bathroom is a gauntlet of sorts, and she worries she'll make eye contact with the developer who sits near the door and he'll know exactly who had to flush twice.
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I was able to drink with abandon until the cheese course, before feeling my face turn red-hot and slinking off to my room — only to get completely lost among the chateau's endless identical doorways.
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The makers of these new scents, which I have taken to calling "the New Softies," are betting that millennials (and the Gen Z-ers slinking up behind them) are averse to pouring on a prepackaged personality.
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The opening credits, as an example, feature the Young Pope — given name: Lenny Belardo; chosen Catholic name: Pius XIII — slinking down a Vatican hallway as the actors' names light up in neon along the lush walls.
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I took this request very seriously, because I was not cool, and I spent many days slinking up and down the corridors hissing, "I am determined to prove a villain" to myself and narrowing my eyes.
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" During an interview in August with SiriusXM's "Dialing Donny" ,Scarborough talked about their relationship, saying, "I realized after a couple of years of sort of slinking around my house and being depressed … I was being Bridget Jones.
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You've been super focused on home and family while the Sun's been slinking around in Scorpio, but during the full moon in hardworking Earth sign Taurus, you will be called to find a better work/home balance.
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Two years ago, a sizable male fisher made its way to the Bronx, startling anybody who saw it slinking along the sidewalk and raising hope that a solution to the city's rat problem might have finally arrived.
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I was promised a twisty game of cat and mouse, but all I saw this week was the mouse gaping at the cat across the street and then slinking away to seduce a different cat for money.
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There's nothing not to full-body love about this, really: if the slinking-through-the-dark vibes or nimble verses don't get you, the pre-chorus rhyming "nee-nor, nee-nor" with "need more, need more" definitely will.
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" During an interview with SiriusXM's "Dialing Donny" in August 2017, Scarborough talked about their relationship, saying, "I realized after a couple of years of sort of slinking around my house and being depressed … I was being Bridget Jones.
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There's projectile vomit that leads to a car accident and some slinking in and out of hotel rooms and a bit of breakdancing, and in the end, everyone learns a valuable lesson about loving yourself and growing up.
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Self-medicating with drugs and alcohol to treat paralyzing stage fright and help compartmentalize MCR's anxiety-inducing agenda in the wake of The Black Parade's explosive success , he soon found solace in slinking ever further into the shadows.
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But a few minutes later, there he is, slinking down the stairs, Afro bristling in the wind, sinewy sun-bronzed arms sticking out of a Prince and the Revolution wifebeater—so charismatic that every move is a pose.
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We made our way to the race site and crouched behind a parked minivan, slinking around like a couple of middle-aged Hardy Boys, then fixed our eyes on a dozen runners who had gathered at a trailhead.
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Critical Shopper "The fog comes on little cat feet," Carl Sandburg wrote in a 1916 poem, and he might have been talking about Kate Moss slinking around London for the last two decades in her trusty black ballet flats.
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When I was a teenager, I'd wait until my parents were out of the house before slinking off to the study to fire up our family computer and ask Google questions about what I'd heard at school that day.
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The Greenland block is absolutely key to this, since it prevents weather systems from simply slinking off out to sea, and allows different branches of the jet stream to come together, or "phase," and form a rapidly intensifying storm.
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Anecdotally, at least, it seems that the men so far shunned, canceled, excluded are slinking around in corners, griping about the new regime, while some of the as-yet-unscathed are excited to see their personal enemies brought low.
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The first time I'd tried to interrogate one of Sal Marcano's men, things had gone sour: One of the informant's bodyguards caught me slinking down the alley toward him, and in the skirmish that followed, my target got away.
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The Motley Crue drummer and Brittany Furlan had one last hurrah as they left Nassau by slinking into the first class bathroom of an AA jet, and lingering for a long, long time ... passengers say at least 20 minutes.
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And so, while Makonnen is a distinctly 21st-century artist, saturated with information at all hours of the day, he quickly synthesized all of it (street rap, 80s pop, slinking R&B) into a sound that has few clear antecedents.
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The film's deliberate lo-fi design leads to endless shots of people sitting in cramped and dreary rooms — although there is a great scene involving the French actress Sarah Bernhardt (Rebecca Dayan) slinking and brooding through a snowy walk with Tesla.
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Slinking into the sack for a precious few hours of sleep, you don't want to fool yourself into a slouch, from which nothing short of a backhoe truck can recover you, particularly if you tend to sleep on your back or stomach.
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There were not many people in the seats yet — Rio is not an early riser — but there was the Portuguese patter of the announcers, the gut-thumping beat of music, and the slow, silent slinking of a gunmetal military ship just offshore.
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Built around a slinking piano line, this song's just as wonderfully subdued as the previous clip, and if these two songs are any indication, then you'll want to be glued to your computer or other Internet-equipped listening device on Sunday afternoon.
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Since actual secret-keeping doesn't make for great internet content, we've shared the best ten-minute, three-ingredient, best-served-while-slinking-into-the-shadows recipe—you can (and should) eat out of the ramen bag, saving yourself some dishwashing on 4/21.
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Even after his first big job, as the golly-gee sailor Chip in the Public Theater's production of "On the Town," he found himself once again behind the gift-shop register, much like Sam slinking back to the basement of the restaurant.
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There are far too many YouTube videos of people eating Carolina Reapers with disturbing results: Their faces redden and contort in agony, they start to swear, cough, and cry, and they often end up running or slinking away to throw up or lie down.
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It's called Guilty of Everything and, deep within its heavy dream-pop, there's a sense that all your worries are being washed down the plug hole; swirling around and slinking off into the sewer of the past as the record reaches its climatic end.
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And he has nice help in his amusing backup team, which is divided between parading peacocks (Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Onofrio and Mr. Sarsgaard) and slinking foxes (Ethan Hawke, Lee Byung-hun and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), who steal gnawed-off bits and pieces of the movie.
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Like Mercury retrograde, you would be wise to watch out for running into people from your past…and because Venus will be slinking backward through mysterious Scorpio, it could be people you had secret affairs with who step out from the shadows to say hello.
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He knew that Bisping was going to turn those failed drug tests into a lash and a means to gin up interest in their fight: Look at the cheater, slinking back into the cage after years as the untouchable champion, dirtied beyond recognition yet desperate for love.
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A scene set in the offices of the colonial authorities in 1920 is stilted and anachronistic; a tantalizing early appearance of one Soft-Paw, a gang leader renowned for his silent footsteps, ends with him slinking away, carrying rucksacks full of guns, never to appear again.
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A few minutes later, Walker saw Barrs' six-foot-six frame slinking out his bedroom window onto the low-slung roof, and then, with a running start, leaping off and bounding for his friend's car in a dead sprint as soon as his feet met pavement.
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As the group strolled around the museum — which, by the way, also displays the engagement ring Nick previously picked out for Kaitlyn Bristowe — it quickly became obvious that Nick was very much avoiding Liz, refusing to make eye contact with her and awkwardly slinking away whenever she approached him.
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Thus, being able to carry out enabling tasks without the gigantic footprint of a traditional array of enablers is a really nice thing; it's like the difference between a frontal assault by a heavy armored brigade and a handful of Special Forces guys slinking in under cover of night.
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If you can peel your eyes off the prowling cat slinking through Shatterbox Anthology's newest short feature sponsored by DOVE® Chocolate, Khethiwe and the Leopard, you'll probably notice that the film resonates as a poignant celebration of childhood — a world shaped by dreams, imagination, and, above all, vulnerability.
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Who Should Have Won: Fatboy Slim, "Praise You" Cher's "Believe" lost out to Santana's slinking horndog anthem "Smooth" in the Record of the Year category this year, but managed to eke out a win in Best Dance Recording on the merit of...Cher being an early adopter of Auto-Tune?
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But for as much as Harley's story is intertwined with the Joker's, her best episode of Batman: The Animated Series by a long shot is one that wrenches away her from his side to embark on a separate adventure with an entirely different iconic Batman villain: the smirking, slinking Poison Ivy.
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A few weeks after her arrival, plagued by the panic any artist gets during a dry spell, she contemplated slinking downstairs to the supermarket to hand in her CV. Broke and living with the fear of having to move back home, Olivia was, as she puts it "kind of shitting myself".
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Early on in the film, Qiao is quickly established as a forthright, self-assured presence in this world: we see her slinking around and roughhousing in the parlor's backroom with Bin's cronies, and, later, ordering these same men to drink a cup of spiked punch before gulping one down alongside them.
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Verge of unraveling Before attempting to reframe his life story as one of resilience and overcoming obstacles, Trump's campaign seemed at the verge of unraveling this week, once again sending GOP lawmakers slinking away from their flailing nominee, as they try to contain the collateral damage to vulnerable House and Senate candidates.
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Perhaps slinking into your own internal safe-space via the medium of grainy footage of grandparental figures shuffling across the dancefloor to the sounds of disjointed deep house isn't the best way to confront the quotidian atrocities that beat and batter each and everyone of us, but fuck it, if you're going to escape into anything, why not make it this.
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It's as if each movement — such as petting a rabbit or sitting legs splayed like a rag doll, or face planting in a mud puddle or reading at the foot of a tree, or wrestling in a bed of leaves or looking over her shoulder, or handling a rifle or slinking away — were conceived by her, this new star, Emma Stone.
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He knows there's no redemption to be found in slinking away and vanishing, that the only way he can save his legacy is by showing his face and that the only way to prove the skeptics wrong is to show them the old Anderson Silva magic once more, this time unmarred by steroids and lurid stories about vials from Thailand filled with sexual-performance drugs.
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But even though Hemsworth has always been the Chris who's easiest to tell apart from the rest (a running gag), with Marvel's films in particular, he's never quite been able to match the movie-star quality and effortless charm of Pratt and Evans; the Thor franchise has consistently been punctuated by Hiddleston's Loki slinking away with the audience's heart and sometimes the entire film.
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But when you're standing in the produce aisle this Thanksgiving, trying to avoid bumping into anyone you know, just remember that at the very same moment, Channing Tatum might be trying to go incognito at a Winn-Dixie in Alabama; Aubrey Plaza might be slinking behind the canned soup display at a Delaware Wegmans; and in Boston, Mark Wahlberg might be chatting up someone's mom in the checkout aisle at Shaw's.
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As the song goes on, her voice gets thicker, more lustrous, as she makes plain what she'll tolerate and what she won't, and also makes clear that you can't play a player: I'll admit, I haven't been completely faithfulbut that was way back in Aprilwhen we didn't have a labelYeah, I tried to play it coolguess we're never really stable "Sideline" moves at a casual stroll, slinking alluringly from one thump to the next as Niia seeps into all the crevices and pockets, her voice rich at the center but with fuzzy edges.
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He can narrate a seduction at a J. C. Penney in a slinking, Prince-like falsetto, as on "Debra," from 1999's "Midnite Vultures" ("I pick you up late at night after work / I said, lady, step inside my Hyundai / I'm gonna take you up to Glendale / Gonna take you for a real good meal"), or sing a raw and quietly devastating chorus, as on "Guess I'm Doing Fine," from 2002's "Sea Change" ("It's only lies that I'm living / It's only tears that I'm crying / It's only you that I'm losing / Guess I'm doing fine").
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