sidelong

“I’m turning on you,” Smith replies with a sidelong glance.

Though set in the early ‘80s, because that’s when Feig grew up, it is not, beyond some sidelong cultural references, nostalgia — there’s not the slightest suggestion that these were “happy days,” and in any case the observation is so acute and the performances are so alive that the series feels contemporary whenever it’s watched.

Gracus glanced sidelong at this enormous gnat that continued to buzz in his ear.

Politics get only sidelong attention.

Against the committee-room grandstanding of popular memory, the series thus fashions the entire Eisenhower era from the raw materials of the closet, from subtext, secrets, sidelong glances and confidential tones.