insinuative

In some respects it goes to the root of the discontent that drives all three books; in others it is a simple sour mash, applying to Pope Francis insinuative caricatures like the ones he applied to Gabby.

Still, there was a strong sense of unity to the work, and a prevailing mood of insinuative bombast.

Mr. Birnbaum, 35, has spent the last six years working in a quartet led by the drummer Al Foster, a master of insinuative groove.

“Beware of certainty and doubt,” Meshell Ndegeocello sings a few tracks into her deep-groove, emotionally insinuative new album, “Comet, Come to Me.”

Mr. Douglas, who wrote most of the tunes, is even more squarely in his element, though there’s a fresh tang in his rapport with Mr. Swallow, whose rubbery, insinuative bass lines are the key to the album’s deeper charms.