So, once again, we're into the world of whispers and sources, rumours, winks and knowing nods. |
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The nods to the traditional Tolkienesque fantasy setting are as countless as they are obvious. |
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David shakes her hand and she puts her other hand on top of his like they're the best of friends and smiles and nods a lot. |
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Under his chairmanship, the meeting would erupt, voices would crackle and snap, then subside into chuckles and nods. |
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He played his part well, paying no girl more attention than another, but never stinting his smiles and nods. |
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Now, more than two decades later, my stepmother nods at my question, glances at my father. |
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He returned many of the cold stares with quick nods and smiles as he walked by, but few people acknowledged them. |
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Tightening her grasp on the tray until her knuckles turn white, Rena suddenly nods. |
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The nun's words were punctuated silently by her sisters' nods of affirmation. |
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Hardly had I driven it down the road than it attracted waves and nods of affirmation from pedestrians and drivers alike. |
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There are nods to Motown, the Isley Brothers and the early hip-hop beats favoured by Evelyn in his younger B-boy days. |
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This was meant to be a drive in movie exploitation flick that nods its head in admiration for the B-movie genre. |
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He nods it to me, I feign to go right, but at the last moment I give him the old Stanley Matthews body swerve and bullet it to the left. |
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And still he encouraged her on, with sympathetic phrases and understanding nods. |
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The road continues to unwind, and Frank nods off briefly, before snapping awake after a close call. |
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After getting nods of agreement from Brad and Natasha, she opened the book. |
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She shakes her head, nods and shrugs, but won't utter a sound, even when asked direct questions. |
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Higgins, a small stout woman who usually speaks in a booming Irish brogue, nods silently. |
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Stifling another giggle, she only nods her agreement, unable to voice her assent. |
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The bartender nods toward a brass plate on the bar that reads, No One Under 18 is Permitted. |
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His answers, progressively more abbreviated, were reduced at times to up or down nods. |
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Gone is Scud's uncompromising chunky beats and I-Sound's earlier nods toward rave's easy to discern breakbeats. |
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The crowd nods in agreement that they are in the presence of a fine basketball player. |
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He nods at me then I smile, as if reassuring him that I will never do that again. |
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She nods knowingly at the woman's frustration, vowing to stop by the coffee shop the next time she's in Farmington. |
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She nods a curt reply as she is deeply engrossed in letting the sun's rays bathe her pale, freckly body. |
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She nods frantically, distractedly, ponytail slicing a semi-circle through the air as she about-faces for a new strip of floor to stomp across. |
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She nods in commiseration, and I realize that talking about exes at a party like this may be an acceptable form of foreplay. |
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The head of the wardrobe department's name is, in fact, Oscar, but he nods anyway. |
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Sitting down at an almost empty table, the two new arrivals exchange curt nods with those closest to them. |
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She nods in acknowledgement of his words, though knowing he wishes differently. |
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This is prog that nods to the past instrumentally but takes on the attitude of modern avant-garde acts like Boris in the process. |
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He saluted members of the staff with curt nods of his head but didn't stop. |
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To approving nods, he recalled his record as mayor, as he does on almost every day of his campaign. |
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The audience roars with laughter as Laverne nods in perfect acceptance and understanding. |
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With little tide run after first flood, bites signal on the rod tip as several nods, often confusing you into thinking it might be a huss. |
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Then he watches as an interpreter translates for me, and nods to check I have understood. |
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Jay nods and I see that his joking expression has been replaced with a look of sympathy. |
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Its sweeping soundscapes, rustic plaintiveness and nods to Curtis Mayfield all added up to a strangely uninvolving experience. |
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With little tide run after first flood, bites signal on the rod tip as several nods, often confusing you in to thinking it might be a huss. |
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If you want her to learn to settle herself, it's best to try to put her down before she nods off. |
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He nods towards a phalanx of priests nursing beer tankards, swaying dreamily to the white noise of the band crackling through the speakers. |
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Yes, it was created by top, well loved developers but even Homer sometimes nods, and he has here. |
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Hardly had I driven the car down the road than it attracted waves and nods of affirmation from pedestrians and drivers alike. |
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Kourin ran up to him and they exchanged quick nods as Regnor continued to rally his troops. |
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Ernie opens a page at random, nods his head approvingly, and begins to read. |
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There are nods to mbalax, the sound of urban Senegal, and more reflective folk music. |
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Ross, sensing that he's been dismissed, nods and gives his father a meaningful glance, unseen by Tristan. |
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My eyes range over the familiar faces and I receive nods and smiles from every direction. |
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But, her support is not explicitly clear and instead seems to be nods and winks to what she really believes. |
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Despite the British starpower of 12 Years a Slave, Gravity led the bafta nominations, taking home 11 nods. |
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It alienated and inspired its way to a Best Picture nomination, as well as earning nods for its director and cinematographer. |
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Describe her as a basket case, and she nods her acquiescence. |
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Friends and colleagues speak of a man who rediscovers his serenity the day after a tantrum, asks whether he was foolish and nods quietly on hearing the affirmative. |
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She gives no nods to the Humanists, like Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Erasmus, or Descartes. |
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His picture of writers as frustrated, unpraised, unrewarded wretches, pitied at parties and whispered about among families, drew laughter and wry nods. |
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As she nods off at night, Arya Stark mutters the names of every scoundrel she plans to kill someday. |
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Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead with nine nods each, Up is double-dipping, and the Sandra and Meryl feud continues. |
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A chorus of yeses, head nods, and wolf calls went around the table. |
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The director nods his head and claps his hands after the reshoot. |
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Our driver glances at us in the rearview mirror and nods before dropping the faded red Toyota Hilux into first gear. |
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She nods to me and greets her friends in Sesotho, the lingua franca among black South Africans in this mostly-poor region. |
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She nods slowly and scuttles away, going from sitting next to me to between Brendon and a meditating Seleth, the four of us nestled in a shady corner. |
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He makes bare-bones music that constantly nods to musical periods long since passed, perhaps the earliest being the 1920s of Blind Lemon Jefferson. |
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The older man nods, as always the picture of measured consideration. |
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He nods at the doorman, smiles at the maid bearing a tray upstairs. |
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As the others have their scenes read out I find myself crossing out whole chunks of dialogue from mine, reducing speeches to monosyllables and nods. |
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Frances nods, her dark eyes twinkling with either amusement or disbelief. |
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She must have asked a question, and he had let the auto-pilot answer with either one of its nods, or maybe even a uh-huh or God forbid, a yes, dear. |
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She did not even have to give the slightest of nods in reply. |
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The supervisor nods and continues to make annotations on a sheet of paper. |
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The waiter nods, makes another note on his notepad and then departs. |
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The auction is expected to last almost half and hour, so get your nods and winks ready because there'll be plenty of opportunity to put your hand in your pocket! |
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Mike nods at a circuit-breaker panel to the right of the copilot. |
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There is too much mugging, too many knowing nods and winks to the audience, something which starts to feel more cloyingly tragic than farcically comic. |
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I intimate these things to Ed, my mailman, who nods politely. |
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The toilet flushes and Hannah nods towards the closed stall. |
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Sonia nods, and Walt's gaze follows hers to the labyrinth in the floor. |
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David nods, crimsoning at his mistake and finishes washing the infant. |
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Matching my mischievous expression, she simply nods, a gleam in her eyes. |
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As a result, I have tended to steer clear of the play, thinking that, if Homer sometimes nods, then here at any rate, Shakespeare was deeply asleep! |
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His staff nods wildly in appreciation of the bossman's insightfulness on things cultural. |
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There were the same elaborate poet bows on silken shirts and loose-fitting suits with contrast piping, nods to androgyny for both men and women. |
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And there were also nods to Mendeleev, who codified the Periodic Table of Elements, and Igor Sikorsky, the inventor and aviator. |
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It's all delivered in a gloriously OTT Grindhouse style with nods to Sergio Leone, John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino. |
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This is met by a rousing round of applause and knowing nods. |
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He went on to receive Oscar nods for Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail and Chinatown, before winning for One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. |
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Fanboys of the genre will be chuffed at the various nods to the comic book and hints to a forthcoming Avengers flick. |
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Katherine nods, unfazed, then leaves with Debby to prep for surgery. |
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Psycho was his last nomination after four previous nods for Rebecca, Lifeboat, Spellbound and Rear Window. |
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Tony, sitting beside her, lights a Marlboro and nods his head. |
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This is a new comedy set in an antiques shop, so it's only right that there should be plenty of nods to the past. |
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Jess joins Brittanie Shipway and Elly Oh, among a few others, in this year's roster of 4-chair nods. |
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Hence Congolese thumb pianos spice up Horchata, violins sweeten the skanky Diplomat's Son, and poignant I Think Ur A Contra nods lyrically to The Clash. |
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That is a Pulp flush with Sparks and glossy 80s pop balladry, making nods at Spandau Ballet and Ultravox without the influences being contrived or too knowing. |
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He nods in the direction of our client, Vince Russo, an oily-looking man about Joel's age who has jammed his Jabba the Hutt torso into the chair at the table next to Holmes. |
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Mock newsreel footage and knowing nods to the camera all serve to break the fourth wall and make the viewer readily aware of the stylised fiction we are witnessing. |
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Ecophobia, time constraints, inadequate funding, and limited knowledge of nature are also given nods as credible barriers to opportunities for children to engage with nature. |
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As for endings, the baba au rhum is a nostalgic surprise, and sweet offerings of creme caramel, lemon tart and a typically English rice pudding receive positive nods. |
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Both Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins thoroughly deserved their Oscar nods, with the latter delivering a career-best performance as the cannibalistic serial killer. |
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Nods to popular culture have brought inevitable cries of dumbing down but if anything they makes the quiz even more troublesome. |
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Nods and affirmative statements came from everyone in the room. |
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