sly suggestion

In the 2000 film What Women Want, knowing that was a telepathic gift magically bestowed on Mel Gibson’s sleazy ad executive by a freak accident, a sly suggestion that this is the only way a man could hope to understand the complexity of a woman’s desires.

Perhaps as a safeguard, perhaps as a sly suggestion, Rankin is assigned to room 332 in the House Office Building, across the hall from Representative Moses P. Kinkaid, of Nebraska, “regarded as the most confirmed bachelor in Congress.”

Even so, what distinguishes “The Mountain Will Fall” at its best is what also distinguished “Endtroducing”: the identifiably human sensations that DJ Shadow gets out of his chosen machinery, be it the anger in “Nobody Speak,” the melancholy in “Ashes to Oceans” or the sense of awe conjured by the title track, which ends with the sound of a cassette being removed from a tape player — a sly suggestion, perhaps, that every song is a sample just waiting to happen.

Followed by a sly suggestion that someone of her experience and stature should have known better.

A sly suggestion from a police officer led Kevin Earley's father to lie and say the young man was violent so that he would get treatment.