There will be a brief sidelong glance at a landscape, and then he's drawing it.
Rather, it was the sly notes, the threats and the sidelong glances of her fellow students.
Even in newer movies, the cinematic city has frequently offered a backward or sidelong escape from the post-9/11 real thing.
Stella eventually comes of age by becoming part of that network of sidelong glances.
Most people find accommodations between the religious mainstream and their own sidelong rivulets.
In this image, the artist presents a selective, sidelong look at a city street scene.
The flight of the iguana: a sidelong view of science and nature.
Garibaldi himself gave me slap on the back and shot me a sidelong glance.
The flight of the iguana a sidelong view of science and nature.
British Dictionary definitions for sidelong
sidelong
/ˈsaɪdˌlɒŋ/
adjective (prenominal)
1.
directed or inclining to one side
2.
indirect or oblique
adverb
3.
from the side; obliquely
Word Origin and History for sidelong
adv.
"towartd the side," 1570s, alteration of Middle English sidlyng (see sidle), probably by influence of side (n.) + long (adj.). As an adjective from 1590s.