Sentences with phrase «knowing nods from»

But here these moments serve to break the spell of the story with little benefit more than a few knowing nods from those who saw the film that started all of this.

Also note the new cover, a reference to a key moment in the film that will draw knowing nods from anyone who has ever seen it.

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After 47 years known as Wal - Mart Stores, the world's largest company said on Wednesday that it is dropping «Stores» from its name in a nod to how much important e-commerce is to the business as it continues to compete with Amazon.com (amzn).

A few notes on why I like this soup nutritionally (I know this is where many of you nod off)... In addition to a nice amount of vegetable based protein in this soup (from the lentils), the recipe also incorporates a touch of dairy, vitamin - rich greens and tomatoes, and good fats.

Bale is no longer a guaranteed starter and it remains to be seen if he will get the nod from Zinedine Zidane, with English clubs likely to be taking an interest in the Frenchman's team selection on the back of this rumour.

First Cliff Bastin ran onto a long pass from Marshall and beat Swift with «a shot that no - one saw», then Ted Drake nodded home a Birkett cross.

We doubt that oblong - shaped vehicles get any more staggering or worthy of attention than this specially - built Iveco Domino transporter, a nod to an era dominated by Ferrari and Michael Schumacher, a place where he no doubt had countless meetings with engineers and also enjoyed moments of peace away from the flurry of the paddock after winning races.

An actual conversation between an English woman and Polish woman who wouldn't know a football from a handbag, but the Polish woman nodded at the English woman's explanation as if the realms of supporting a football team came second nature to her.

While Suso has performed well in La Liga last season, with a relegation threatened Almeria side, it was expected that he would get a nod from the Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, who is known to extract the maximum out of his young talent on Merseyside.

A BabyCenter Moms» Picks winner, Boppy gets the nod from moms in the know.

I just nodded and kept to myself the other celebrations that I know are occurring - Halloween parties in each classroom from 1:30 - 2:30 today (listed on the website), Veterans Day Breakfast (mentioned at the PTO meeting, planning who will supply the donuts), Donuts with dads, Muffins with Moms (mentioned at the PTO meeting).

No matter who wins on Sunday, Upstate New Yorkers Mark and Sunrise Ruffalo win best supporting nods from us for their support for equality.»

Aunty Beeb is no longer the voice of the nation, they wait for the nod from Downing St. before they upset a foriegn government, so we're relying on CLAMERON, the showbiz couple with the integrity of FIFA executives, to lead the way.Sorry people of Bahrain, but democracy is no longer a dream to dream of, it's a commercial element, to be factored in, or out, depending on the + or - commercial / political impact.

Molinaro, who already has taken flak from those on the right for backing Rep. Michael McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), knows that there will be political fallout from the Cuomo nod.

His litany of pork procurement, ranging from $ 47 million for the Kingston - Benedictine merger (which some see as largely wasted) to over $ 600,000 for the gay - rights advocacy center just down the street from the debate, drew knowing nods.

I know from experience that you can't change a system if you make it wrong, so I took a few deep breaths, and nodded to the doctors who expressed appreciation that a «CAM speaker» had been brought in to enlighten them.

Everyone knows that exercise is beneficial to your overall health, but how can it keep you from wanting to nod off?

I'd smile and nod, but in my head I'd be thinking, «ohhhh honey, you don't know from far.»

I know you're nodding in agreement from across the screen.

Not trying to imitate one, but it'd probably get a nod from Sabrina the Teenage You - Know - What.

Despite Hemsworth's frequent attempts to spice up the often drab feature with his turn - on charm, all winks and nods and knowing smiles, the film suffers terribly from its inability to identify and convey proper tone.

What You Need To Know: On the slim off - chance that you've heard none of the deafening buzz surrounding Steve McQueen «s «Hunger» and «Shame» follow - up (which also stars Michael Fassbender), let's get to it: by all accounts (our own included), lead Chiwetel Ejiofor is anything from a good bet to a surefire winner for this year's Best Actor Oscar, with the film itself a likely player in the Best Picture race and any number of the other actors (Fassbender foremost among them) potentially primed for Supporting Actor nod.

Here, buy more about the plot holes may be as big as the craters the earthquakes create but the special effects and the script's knowing nods prevent the film from falling apart.

That being said we did sneak a wee E.T. homage into the Trolley scene and my editor Helen says she always knows my scripts from the number of nods to movies peppered inside them.

The Hateful Eight star delivered a performance that might get him a nod or two during awards season, and he already knows where at least one of his votes is coming from.

I'm going to write about the story separately and in more detail later this week, but what you really need to know is that it mixes up the MVC formula a little in battle from time to time and has some great quips and nods — whoever wrote this had great fun bringing these characters together.

I was pleased to see Shohreh Aghdashloo nominated as the wife in «House of Sand and Fog» as well as the great Patricia Clarkson in «Pieces of April,» a nod no doubt for being looked over the year before in «Far from Heaven.»

His previous work has made numerous nods to the western genre, so we're in no doubt he knows it backwards, but this is far from mere cut - and - paste, and by wringing some genuine emotion from the stirring subject matter it even shows maturation as a filmmaker.

There are also nods to well - known New Zealand works of the 1970s from the likes of Kiwi filmmakers Peter Weir (especially his zoom shots), Geoff Murphy (whose Goodbye Pork Pie inspired the car chase sequences) and Roger Donaldson (elements of his Sleeping Dogs are woven in here), as well as to classic Hollywood action films, from The Terminator to First Blood to The Fugitive to a catchphrase made popular by Michael Bay's Bad Boys 2.

Remarkably for someone who hasn't directed a film for more than a decade, it's very good indeed, fully deserving of the six Oscar nominations it received last week — including a slightly unexpected but no doubt very welcome Best Director nod for Gibson himself — and standing up to comparison with Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima and even Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter.

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.

Full of knowing nods to the shivery pleasures of suspense and the transporting power of music, this is a wholly winning new novel from a writer lauded as «charming» (Los Angeles Times), «witty» (O, The Oprah Magazine), and «whimsical» (People).

«Jobs paused and with a knowing nod responded, «The price will be the same,» and explained that «publishers are actually withholding their books from Amazon because they are not happy,»» wrote Cote in her ruling.

In most places nodding your head vertically up and down would indicate a «yes» and from side to side is a «no».

What stood out for me personally were the chocolate sprinkles, something that I know from the Netherlands and that are probably a nod to the colonial times when Indonesia was a Dutch colony.

I know people will disagree with me, and that's fine, but five characters from a non-mainstream series getting more spotlight time over something like Donkey Kong or Metroid never made sense to me, especially when some series like Golden Sun never got so much as a nod.

Within both the game's story and open world parts there will be little nods to the Marvel universe that will not add or take anything away from the game, but will get the player's attention, such as damage control, whom fans will know as the clean up crew after a super hero showdown.

Performances from a who's who of gaming acting talent are universally fantastic, doing Traveller's Tales» script justice and delivering a steady flow of gags, references and very nerdy nods to all things DC — so nerdy, in fact, that you'd have to be the most super of super fans to even know who most of the characters are.

Xenoblade Chronicles doesn't really know what to do with you, so it has the other characters do all the talking while your avatar looks on dumbly, sometimes nodding or silently choosing an option from a menu.

But for those who lived through the golden age of video games — the 80s and early 90s — or know about the games and culture from that time, layer upon layer of nods, winks and touches to those times help build upon an experience that's as heart - warming as it is exciting!

The nod to Wiley was an unsurprising — if important — gesture from a President known for decorating the White House with contemporary art and keeping Jay - Z on his iPod.

«The first North American solo exhibition of Ernest Mancoba included four small paintings ranging in date from 1958 to 1985 (one is undated) and some twenty works on paper (many of them likewise undated, but the others are mostly from the early 1990s), giving art lovers on this side of the Atlantic at least a nodding acquaintance with an oeuvre I suspect we are going to get to know much better in coming years.»

Known for her elegant filmic investigations into visual gestalts, voyeurism, and perceptual memory, as well as her creative engagement with cinematic history, Rosalind Nashashibi presents several of her experimental 16 - mm productions from the past four years, including Bachelor Machines Part 2 (2007), which borrows footage and dialogue from Alexander Kluge's 1968 film Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed; and The Prisoner (2008), a nod to Chantal Akerman's 2000 film La Captive.

As daylight fades, the colours gradually evaporate, reversing the original film's transition from black and white to Technicolor in a work that encourages slow, focused looking and gives a knowing nod to twentieth - century abstraction.

Of course, the Biennial will make the requisite nods to identity - hyperconscious photography and video (Tam Tran and Kate Gilmore), space - eating installation art (Martin Kersels, Theaster Gates), and a who - knows - what - they'll - do, this time from the Brooklyn collective the Bruce High Quality Foundation.

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