Sentences with phrase «kind of nod»

I keep showing it to people and they kind of nod at me strangely.

I'm going to ultrasound appointments and kind of nodding like I know what goes where, and talking about how I wanted to be there during the delivery like I had any idea what that would be like.

What kind of nods or homages do you want to see?

It's nice to see that even when «changing the formula,» they still inserted subtle nods for long - time series fans like me — the kinds of nods that Popolo - heads will squee about, yet which remain subtle enough to keep the game completely accessible to series newcomers.

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Those future - mothers - and - fathers will probably do what I do when I meet those ladies at the park and the grocery store and the bank, they will nod and smile through their exhaustion and say, yes, I know out of kindness and respect while something inside them is thinking but, lady, it's also so tiring and kind of hard sometimes.

I tell people about this all of the time — vegetarians, even, who nod politely; my husband, who thinks it's cool, but perhaps a little less than I do; this old lady on the crosstown bus who heard me talking about them on the phone... But wait, there's more: not only do you only need three ingredients to make carnitas, the cooking technique is kind of brilliant.

Glaring at them and nodding my head did little to discourage this, but I'm kind of twisted like that.

And although people nod their heads in agreement when presented with research that demonstrates the positive and successful outcomes for kids who attend all kinds of colleges (not just the elite universities), these folks don't seem to change their behaviors in light of the data.

[In] another nod to what kind of person Cindy is, she said, «Come to my lab and photograph me wearing a beard.»

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Tonight, -LCB- cv -RCB- and I will be headed to Federal Hill, a neighborhood in Providence known for exquisite Italian food:) We'll be attending a work dinner of sorts, but it's sure to be a fun meal — not a boring, nod - your - head kind of dinner.

Today's Game of Thrones themed wedding inspiration shoot from Candice Benjamin Photography is filled with all kinds of Westeros details — gorgeous purple floral arrangements, a bridesmaid that looks just like Sansa, House of Stark sigils, a nod to the collar of chains worn by Maesters (look in the bridesmaid's hair), and quite possible the most epic Game of Thrones themed wedding cake ever created!

hily's the perfect dating site for anyone reading this sad article and nodding their head, because you will not experience the kind of flaky, weird guys described here.

Sorry, Game Night, but David Fincher's 1997 film, «The Game,» remains the undisputed expert in balancing the parts making up its concept and, in the bigger picture, the kind of game night in which repeats will still summon the nods.

And yet the musical La La Land, arguably the whitest of the year's nominees (Manchester by the Sea comes close), made its own kind of history by tying the Academy record — set by All About Eve in 1950 and Titanic in 1997, respectively — for the most nods ever for one film: 14.

The idea of Unforgiven being Eastwood's tribute to his own filmmaking path and, as it turns out, a final farewell to the genre that turned him into an international superstar, is further enforced by his kind nod in the final credits.

These little nods, while not necessary to enjoy the film as a whole, are nice Easter eggs for the kind of people who probably have the same DVDs on their shelves as Peele and his co-writer Alex Rubens.

Visually, the characterization makes a nod to the scowling - eyed Beast from Jean Cocteau's immortal «Beauty and the Beast» (1946), but he also comes off as a kind of royal version of the Elephant Man: a melancholy freak trapped in solitude.

And the first time Robert Downey Jr has even attempted that kind of film in some time (he got a nod for «Tropic Thunder,» but that didn't seem so intentional).

This is the kind of a performance that gets an Oscar nod.

Let's be honest, what kind of a definitive movie list would this be without a nod to Star Wars?

Brendan Gleeson is an pleasant surprise in the Best Supporting Actor category, and while I anticipated Brad Pitt's appearance in that field for «Burn After Reading,» Tilda Swinton's Supporting Actress nod for the same film is the kind of out - of - nowhere hometown favoritism that only BAFTA can come up with.

Deakins got his first Oscar nomination for his work on 1994's The Shawshank Redemption, and through the years, he's been nominated for all kinds of movies, from Best Picture nominees (No Country for Old Men; Fargo; The Reader) to more offbeat but lush achievements, working with directors like the Coen Brothers (whose movies make up for 5 of Deakins's 14 nods), Martin Scorsese (Kundun), Sam Mendes (Skyfall), and Angelina Jolie (Unbroken).

Hollywood was truly at a crossroads then, and so were the Oscars, which had nominated in 1970 such daringly different kinds of films as Midnight Cowboy (the eventual Best Picture winner), Easy Rider, Z, and Medium Cool, while also giving Best Picture nods to films like Hello Dolly and Anne Of The Thousand Days, two movies more representative of the past than the futurof films as Midnight Cowboy (the eventual Best Picture winner), Easy Rider, Z, and Medium Cool, while also giving Best Picture nods to films like Hello Dolly and Anne Of The Thousand Days, two movies more representative of the past than the futurOf The Thousand Days, two movies more representative of the past than the futurof the past than the future.

I do know from experience that a lap involving the kind of neat and tidy cornering efforts that have your instructor nodding, is often quicker than the sort where you really try.

It's a nod to old - school racing transmissions and really rather cool, at least if you're geeky enough to appreciate that kind of detail.

But how do you approach someone with that kind of power — especially since influencers are constantly being asked by all kinds of people (authors and otherwise) for the favor of their endorsement or nod?

Just nod nicely when they start into that kind of stuff and move on.

I would've said it's kind of a Batman silhouette, nodding his head significantly.

I don't have that kind of money to throw around, though, and hearing several other (well known) indie writers nod and agree that «they, too, do this» makes us poorer indies feel a bit inadequate.

I have been wishing for some kind of Caldecott nod for David Ezra Stein (here's his 2008 7 - Imp interview) for years now.

It is kind of neat to see the world of Aiden Pearce and Watch Dogs fleshed out a little bit with a special nod to someone that Ubisoft really likes.

There are three kinds of ways to play through songs, which nod to different elements of the Final Fantasy series such as Battles, Traveling, and Story Events.

It's the best kind of nostalgia: fresh and new with nods to the games that lead to its existence.

Part Kubrickian, part Wilsonian (as in Robert), with a nod to Isadora Duncan, Lita Albuquerque's «hEARTH,» a performance installation created with her daughter Jasmine Albuquerque and composer Kristen Toedtman, on view at Sunnylands Center and Gardens (the former Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage), served as a kind of prequel to outdoor exhibition Desert X 2017.

Though presented without comment, the photo is a winking nod to Hammons's reputation as a kind of art - world sorcerer and also to his own anthropological interests: For five decades he has deployed conceptual jokes and everyday materials to reflect on the paradoxes and complexities of African American life.

Unlike the classical ruins they nod to, where fragmentation is its own kind of completeness, these structures look like they want to push out of the glass - panelled roof and have to be contained by the stacked block that sit on top.

If the show intended to nod at the kinds of abstraction influenced by American painting of the 1960s (Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler and others painted on canvas with acrylics in a way that seemed to up the ante of the watercolour tradition), why not chose a late 60s John Hoyland, a 70s Bert Irvin or a recent John McLean rather than this dreary thing?

But despite the rules, Omid discovered a warm and pleasant people: «While communication was nearly impossible due to language barriers, this didn't keep me from seeking visual or gesticulative contact with people on the streets in form of a simple smile, a nod, and the waiving of a hand — gestures that were almost always reciprocated with a surprised smile, a kind and respectful nod, or a shy wave followed by looking or walking away.

Steinkamp's mastery of movement simulates the kind of nostalgic hypnosis found in nature's many gestures — a beckoning tree branch or a nodding lilac coax you to stay for awhile, like a child meandering through the park.

Aside from a predilection for including — in a deliciously apt, tacit titular nod — the kinds of fantastic colors found in the chemical inks that crowd candies and their wrappers, the five artists...

What I particularly like is that they are focussed on describing the natural processes independently of anthropogenic forcing, or in fact forcing of any kind, with the possible nod to the sun as a perturbance that might in fact tempo.

This kind of nonsensical correlation was repeated throughout as Michaels and D'Aleo made a great show of «chipping away» at the overwhelming consensus behind the science of anthropogenic global warming, buoyed by laughter and nods of appreciation from the audience.

Sam Glover: Yeah, it's that ongoing you're kind of confident, but there's a little bit of a wink and nod.

With a nod to the past, but one foot firmly in the present, farmhouse style is one that speaks to all kinds of people.