insinuative

Mr. Short's voice is insinuative.

Sensual, insinuative.

Despite the shameless jokes ("I'm emotional, I hug the block") and dopeman boasts hidden in plain sight, this is sly, insinuative music.

Mary Timony, the former lead singer for the indie-rock band Helium, writes weird, insinuative songs full of odd twists and mystical imagery that evoke progressive rock.

After Mr. Terry's solo and a brief interlude, Mr. Simpson thrashed over a four-chord vamp that was nearly insinuative of hip-hop.

Unlike the orotund elegance of Jamesian, for example, or the insinuative darkness of Kafkaesque, the word Kiplingesque has something comic and preposterous about it now.

But there's also something appealing about the film's insinuative vision of protest music: the idea that a rabble-rousing song can sound like "Bird Gurhl" instead of, say, "Street Fighting Man."

Last year, this South Africa-born, Australia-based singer released "Under a Different Sky" (Chocolate Industries), laying breathy, insinuative songs atop filigreed beats and shimmering textures.

I tried to thrust from my mind the memory of that insinuative, incipient sensation, that rudimentary physiological hint, that primitive, inchoate anticipation of what it might be possible for a woman to feel.

The Valtysdottir sisters provide all the singing (although much of it is closer to murmuring), and all four members used a variety of tools to create their slow, insinuative tracks, sometimes switching instruments in midsong.

(In "Cupcake," she cooed, "I need you/ to shatter the status Q.") Sometimes she trades elegance for restlessness, jump-cutting wildly between gleeful choruses and mumbly rapping and insinuative verses.

But when he caught up with her again and whispered what he did intend to do, it was so insinuative that the sensations that ripped through her, jagged and molten, felt dangerously as if he had followed through.

"Mardi Gras" is a an insinuative, bluesy confection; "Llora, Llora" features the salsa singer Oscar D'Leon; for the salsa classic "Chango Blanco," there's a big (and lively) salsa band.

Whereas Mama is prone to good-natured wisecracks and snappy retorts in Mama's Family, nearly all of her commentary is impudent and insinuative in The Family sketches, solely designed to offend and anger her daughter and son-in-law.

(Chinen) PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE (Tonight) A thrillingly prickly and insinuative collective with the saxophonist Tim Berne, the multireedist Chris Speed, the bassist Scott Colley and the drummer Tom Rainey.

NORE and Nina Sky showed up for "Oye Mi Canto," but fans seemed just as excited to watch reggaeton's big names: the sly, insinuative veteran Tego Calderon, the trouser-dropping balladeer Don Omar and, perhaps most of all, Daddy Yankee.