sidelong

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There are light topical references — a sidelong joke about the names billionaires give their children, for example — but the show happily lives in its world of day-to-day annoyances and victories.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2025

In each of those performances, she conveyed tenderness, compassion and quiet determination in the face of indignity with little more than a tearful gaze or a knowing sidelong glance.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

This wouldn’t bother me at all, except it is a frequent topic of conversation, and I’ve gotten sidelong glances and been directly questioned about it.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2022

And Andrea Riseborough is terrific expressing considerable disdain with just a sidelong glance.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2021

She looks at me sidelong, with a weird, probing expression.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli