Sentences with phrase «head cocked»

You are entertained and persuaded because the story is believable, even if certain aspects of the story are fantastic, like the «bird in the oak across the driveway» that watches the house with its head cocked, listening to the burned toddler's cries in David Foster Wallace's story, or bloodthirsty zombies in AMC's wildly popular TV - adaptation of The Walking Dead graphic novels.

Everyone watched her — so tall — as she extended her long finger at Clayton, who stood with his thumbs in his beltloops and his weight on one foot, his head cocked to one side like someone getting the raw end of a deal.

The gentle and refined Lady sits poised, her head cocked slightly as she gazes curiously with her large doe eyes as if seeking approval.

She never saw that dog again, the one with the daisy in her ear and the ever - so - gentle head cocked to one side.

It was a chihuahua, and he was terrified of the thunder and begging for help with his head cocked to the side and one tiny paw raised to his chest.

Head cocked, nose and ears blushing with excitement, eyes flashing — she wasn't kidding.

He continued to write after she'd stopped speaking, his head cocked and still like a dog listening to a sound that was distinct, but far off.

It was how he greeted diners, gliding in with hands clasped and head cocked.

Rosenharte turned and listened with his head cocked and recognized Violetta's part from the first act of La Traviata.

Mike Cross, Jaguar's quietly spoken chief engineer, chassis guru and drifting savant, is one of those drivers who can segregate completely the processes of driving quickly and speaking lucidly into a journalist's tape recorder, head cocked slightly towards the passenger seat.

Nipper, the fiberglass mixed - breed terrier with its head cocked to the side as if listening to the hum of traffic coming from nearby I - 787, is one of Albany's most recognizable symbols.

In a meadow below we watch acrippled moose, its head cocked, belching steam, its antlers clawing the air.It crashes through a spray of snow into a juniper stand.

He drives the Rolls about the city with his head cocked back in a look of haughty superiority, and with all the marshaled dignity of a nobleman — or at least the chauffeur of a nobleman.

She sits with her head cocked to one side, supported by an arm rested on the table.

Heads cock and I think I hear snickering.

Heads cock, eyebrows raise when I ask where «the bin» is or for some «tom - ah - toes» on my salad.

Not exact matches

She cocks her head, parrots back my words in her high - pitched 3 - year - old lisp.

As he often does, however, Schama overextends and trivializes his argument, interpreting the composition, with Anslo at its elevated center, as a portrait of a marriage in which the domineering husband «leans heavily toward his wife, benevolently overbearing, just short of bullying,» while Aeltje, «her head slightly cocked like an obedient pet or a contrite child,» patiently accedes to his diatribe.

Scanlon cocked his head and gave a very Halpert-esque blink.

Vic Clinco, curator of the world's largest hot - sauce collection, man with a cock on his head (rooster hat), doled out seven sauces of ascending delicious pain.

Folks cock their heads when they learn Ronnie Killen rests the brisket at Killen's Barbecue in Pearland, TX, for five hours.

Then he cocks his head, smiles, and Pat starts shooting.

And that's yet another sentence that makes you cock your head like a very drunk German Shepard.

The guy had a great game v west ham but his ego lets him down, but Wenger his comments on the defensive cock ups, it is the same comments on all the losses so surely he needs to rectify the prob Number one drop the BF German that can't head a ball can't run he is a liability every time he puts on the shirt even Debuchy jumps higher than him Gibbs can't defend he is a nice guy but not first choice L Back Chocqelen has proved he is a good player that can get better what we need is an Ozil type midfielder that has more guts to play good balls through to runners not high balls that you hope will find a target So a defender that can defend a left back and a midfielder and then look out enough is enough on what the problems are If the car won't run right you Fix it Wenger now is the time to FIX it CB

Bon cocked his head in puzzlement.

Head up, stick cocked, and gliding along the Blueline like he was in a Rod - Hockey bubble.

If Szczesny gets his head in gear and stops cocking up on and off the field then, yes he'll be number 1 and one of the best goalkeepers in the league but I don't see that happening ether

If he had looked over his shoulder, though, he might have seen baseball in a leotard and clown makeup, holding a taser and cocking its head quizzically like a dog.

Tyler eventually joined and after Pete lost the title, they turned face, basically having the whole «charming rogue» thing going on — Trent's really good and trash - talk, Pete is still a massive cock but he's a cock in a funny way instead of a «break someone's head open with a sledgehammer way».

I have to admit AW is a new man his changed his tacticks, I love the way the whole team defend in all areas of the pitch, I think most of AOB wanted him out becouse he was not bolstering the team where it was desperately headed and we had the funds in the bank, thanks to cock and Belerin coming good when they did otherwise most still be asking for AW head, I think we can see the light at the end of the tunnel but still think we can buy someone special this summer.

When you step back from the moment and cock your head to one side and take a cool, calm look at the state of things, it's just possible — perhaps, maybe — that sporting celebrations are one of the greatest things that people do.

After a walk in the woods with my husband Tim and our two crazy Cocker Spaniels we head home have a hearty breakfast and then the rest of the day is spent absorbed in yarn, knitting and making.

After a long minute of WTF, Chelsea looked at me with cocked head and wrinkled eyebrows and said, «Monica, I'm Chelsea.»

Afterward we learned she couldn't make her way through the birth canal due to unusual cock - eyed positioning of her head.

About this time, I started noticing some asymmetry in Rowan's head lifting - you see his head is cocked a little toward his right shoulder and he definitely looked at objects on his left in Tummy Time more than his right.

I may make different choices than you and some of your choices may even get me to cock my head in wonder, but I don't judge you and I don't get involved with your choices and I expect / demand the same in return.

Shortly after the press conference, WNBC - TV's Andrew Siff immediately walked up to me, cocked his head, and asked «We didn't Start the Fire?!

I should be heading up there Thursday morning, Lord willin» and the creek don't rise, and will have both hats (e.politics and New Media Strategies) firmly set atop this tired old noggin, cocked at an appropriately jaunty angle of course.

It cocked its head sideways as if trying to understand me.

Basilisk lizards got their names from the mythological animal with the body of a lizard, the head of a cock, and a snake's tail and fangs.

she says, cocking her head to one side, meaning the nearby park in New York City, which has slides, swings, and a sandbox.

Keeping a flexible approach to the kinds of roles you are prepared to take on can help, says Ellen Cocking, head of careers advice at the Open University: «Think creatively.

Its head, slightly cocked, gives the animal an air of deep contemplation.

The dog cocks its head attentively, folds its hind legs under its body and sits.

When Horton ran complaints made by two more unnamed critics of the CDC center on 3 March, CDC Director Thomas Frieden and the head of division under attack, Kevin De Cock, decided to take on the critics point by point, which they do in a rebuttal (PDF) that yesterday appeared online in The Lancet.

Solid scientific evidence has shown that strategies such as needle exchange can powerfully slow the spread, says epidemiologist Kevin De Cock, who heads the HIV / AIDS program for the World Health Organization, which co-authored the report.

I looked at it, a bit puzzled and cocked my head, «For me?»

If you cock your head just the right way, you can see the little yellow marks that my doctor placed on these test results.

Make sure that when you're bringing it over you're cocking right in the center of your back, nice controlled motion with the triceps, using those to pull it over, clear your head, and bring it back over.

● Finally, keep your head in a neutral position, not cocked way back and not looking into the ground.