Joshua Oppenheimer

For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most, that keep me up at night, and that, when I finally fall asleep, insinuate themselves into my dreams.

British Director

Ng Chin Han

I've always had an uneasy relationship with technology and how it insinuates itself into our lives: for example. I always prefer talking face-to-face with friends than texting or calling, and if I want to get updates on their lives, I don't go to Facebook but meet them in person.

Singaporean Actor

Jodi Kantor

Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.

American Journalist

Luciana Berger

All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is a way of life only for those who choose it. Yet the reality couldn't be more different.

British Politician

Claude Debussy

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

French Composer

Guy Gavriel Kay

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

Canadian Author

Errol Morris

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

American Director

Roberta Smith

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

American Critic

Shweta Menon

Magazines started insinuating that I was having affairs with my co-stars. That hurt.

Indian Model

Norman Davies

The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.

British Historian

Use 'insinuate' when suggesting something negative in a roundabout way without claiming it outright.

Subtle Implication

'Insinuate' can show one's reluctance to state something directly, often to avoid confrontation.

Indirectly Pointing

Be cautious, as 'insinuate' can sound accusatory and may offend if the implication is taken negatively.

Potentially Offensive

Use this definition of 'insinuate' to describe someone entering a space in an unnoticed or undetected manner.

Physical Subtlety

It can metaphorically mean introducing ideas or influences gradually without being direct.

Metaphoric Entry

Use 'insinuate' to express someone blending into a group or situation to remain unnoticed.

Discrete Infiltration

 who is a precious little angel. This story rears its head in my daughter's life around Christmastime, when certain people get positively giddy at the thought of seeing her in angel's wings and a halo at the pageant. The insinuation is that these people don't experience the sticky complexities

"Good" and "bad" are...

 just insinuate yourself in that conversation let's see throw them a rescue line attention and we know that that is the scarcest of all resources and we know we all crave it and we know we have millions of devices and millions of things that will pull us away from

The benefits of talking...

 and so on so that's what I was thinking and excuse me for for insinuating that they were family to start with I didn't mean that I just got caught up in a few different thought processes but let's get back to the matter at hand

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