The class itself was an elective for what school catalogues coyly call 'the slow learner'.

Yet the second season is trying harder for what Showtime's advertising campaign coyly calls "buzz."

The possibility of recession - what Wall Street coyly calls the R-word - and the prospect of a Fed easing, were clearly behind the bond market's sharp rally.

At the same time, steam the color of leaf smoke began gurgling up from the bone-white cone, surges that slightly exceeded each other in what the rangers coyly call the "preplay period."

On one side was the window of a brothel advertising outré relaxations: on the other a mouldered poster, some radical group trying to recruit women it coyly called "those of unorthodox service professions."

Did you know that some lizards have two penises, and that most birds don't have any and must resort to what the author coyly calls "cloacal kissing"?

It coyly calls attention to itself.

One covers both Bilbao and Barcelona, and the second (coyly called "Howdy, Gaudi") focuses on Barcelona, with a one-day excursion to Bilbao to visit Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum.

From their first encounter when the nun (Molly) takes on her own defense, coyly calls the judge by his first name (Henry) and chides him for engaging in an insignificant and irrelevant profession, it is clear that Mr. Gibson has an odd coupling in mind.