Sentences with phrase «of nod at»

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

After the movie ended and I was shuffling out of the IMAX theater in complete awe of what Nolan and co. had accomplished, I huddled with other press people, all of us nodding at each other that this is the movie we had all hoped it would be.

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Although he did not get the nod as the Department of Homeland Security secretary, a position for which he interviewed, incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told WTMJ «we definitely» want Clarke to be involved «in the administration at some level» and that he is «going to have opportunities» to serve in the Trump White House.

Matt Galloway, who wakes up every weekday morning at 3 a.m. to host CBC Toronto's Metro Morning radio show, discusses the pain and pleasure of rising before the sun, and how not to nod off at a dinner party:

In February, Erik Nielsen, global head of CIB research at UniCredit, told CNBC that «Weidmann's vocal opposition to most of the ECB decisions in recent years has generated too much opposition in too many other member states for him to get the nod.»

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

«Super Mario Odyssey» is a glorious combination of homage and evolution, nodding heartily at Nintendo's long history of excellent Super Mario games while looking forward in scope and gameplay.

And perhaps worst of all, corporate chiefs often wink at (or nod off to) overly aggressive tactics that speed along the margins of the law.

I would see some of these guys around days later, and they'd nod at me solemnly, acknowledging what we had been through.

The rally featured Neal Bernard «The Roughneck» Hancock removing his shoes and throwing them at the doors of the Legislature, former federal cabinet minister Chris Alexander appearing to nod as protesters chanted «lock her up» in reference to Premier Rachel Notley, and climate change denying, anti-gay and anti-immigration messages on signs and pamphlets.

He would be here primarily not to lob friendly set - ups at the Finance Minister, nor to fill out the camera frame or clap or nod in affirmation of whatever his side just said.

I'd say the craziest, stupidest stuff, trying like hell to get a raise out of people, and not only would I not get one, I'd for the most part be completely ignored — smiled and nodded at, and then just waved on through into my seat in the megachurch.

My daughter says sometimes someone who doesn't know him will start explaining to him how to play football or baseball (both of which he's quite good at) and he just nods and is very attentive, as if he thinks the other person knows what he's talking about.

At what level of school do they teach a pastor to listen and just nod their head.

People hear where I am going next week, and because all we know of Haiti is what we have seen on the news, their eyes widen at me, and we end up nodding at each other like, yeah, shit's about to...

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.

In her new book Women and Evil, Nell Noddings attempts to look at the problem of evil in a new light — a specifically feminine, or rather feminist, light.

By an amazing twist of hermeneutical skill, we Christians have learned to nod our heads at both Jewish and Christian interpretations of Scripture.

At the Secular Student Alliance office in Columbus, Ohio, the staff will play Secret Sagan, a nod to the famed scientist, instead of Secret Santa.

He nodded off before dinner at our house, and after his lecture, he sat helpless as a clutch of Legionaries of Christ came up to kneel before him.

At the historically African - American college in the south they discovered higher religious participation but lower diversity, with only a nod to the concept of pluralism.

«Removing even a nod toward «religious liberty» from the platform puts Democrats at fundamental odds with the many religious organizations whose mission is nonviolence and protection of the most vulnerable,» wrote executive director Kristen Day and Fordham University professor Charles Camosy.

The civilization at Nod must have begun almost simultaneously with the Garden of Eden.

All that happens is in some way, either directly or permissively, related to His most holy Will: «nothing walks with aimless feet,» and we shall make hash of human life if we assume that we can evade God or get on well enough with only a casual nod at Him; that is not the way the universe is run.

At 1 pm on Monday November 20, the Abbey's Company of Ringers will begin a complicated peal consisting of 5,070 changes or sequences, with the 70 a nod to the special anniversary.

I'm no power - walker, and running isn't even on my radar these days, I just want to walk, to stop and look for the bald eagle that roosts in the tallest tree, to listen to CBC Morning Edition on my little earbuds, nod hello at all of the senior citizens that are my company at this hour of the day.

This is to nod at the call of God and go on our way; it is to lose the infinite, transforming horizon of God's call.

People hear where I am going next week, and because all we know of Haiti is what we have seen on the news, their eyes widen at me, and we end up nodding at each other like, yeah, shit's about to get real, man.

We nod hello to each other, the picnic tables of men in turbans at the park, they're solving the world's problems apparently.

The wilderness - shooter video game series has long been a sort of self - caricature, an unapologetic shoot - em - up that winks and nods at the genre itself, and for its newest iteration, Far Cry turns an eye toward Christian culture — barely.

After a nod in the direction of a moderate amount of ceremony and of the need for an architecture that witnesses to the presence of the Divine, Niebuhr continues: «Without an adequate sermon no clue is given to the moral purpose at the heart of the mystery, and reverence remains without ethical content (p. 55)

In his account of the faith, the sin that Christians once called sodomy is no more serious than my nodding off as he spoke gentle words at the Church of St. Francis Xavier on a warm June afternoon.

A second, linked rumour was that Aronofsky would replace the sin and judgement message of the story with an environmental tract, and while his pre-flood humanity's mistreatment of creation is a pointed nod at modern climate change deniers, it doesn't go further than that.

But a subtler nod to the pontiff came at the start of the nuptial Mass..

In The Stand, King's magnum opus — or at least his best book, since he would probably give the magnum - opus nod to his bloated, interminable seven - volume Dark Tower saga — the survivors of a global superflu face off in an apocalyptic battle royale, but the superflu itself is an entirely human creation, a dark thing conjured up by the just - doing - our - job good men in the U.S. military and released into the world by simple human error.

But you do that by nodding to the past while looking towards the shores of a new land all at once.

I was nodding my head at every.single.ingredient and thinking these sound fantastic and then I saw Ottolenghi's name at the bottom of the post.

I really didn't expect that to happen at all, but my husband and I both polished off big plates of this before looking up at each other, rubbing our bellies and nodding our heads.

I want a beer that's strapping yet one that also nods to the coming thaw, to the promise of lazy afternoons at the park.

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

A «retro - lit» blue glass sign and reception desk — a nod to the company's ubiquitous use of blue glass — set against floor - to - ceiling white marble walls, signal arrival at the elegant eatery.

We actually served bananas foster as a dessert at my wedding, as a bit of a nod to one of my favorite places down the shore.

There's even a small nod to the Eagles» trick play at the end of the first half of the Super Bowl in the rankings.

The Schedule just never placed them against each other and because of that, we were left looking at Strength of Schedule which gave Team Kirshner the nod..

With Geno Smith now getting the nod, only 27 % of tickets are backing New York with the line settling in at +8.5.

When looking at the Weekly Results and Tiebreakers — more so for Power Rankings than for potential Playoff Seeding (so many weeks to go...)-- the resumes of these Teams do little to give one Team the nod over the other..

He had four consecutive All - Pro nods from 2012 - 15, three Defensive Player of the Year awards, and has had at least 17.5 sacks in a season three times, with two of those being 20.5 - sack seasons.

At the front of the room Ed Butowsky also does a bobblehead nod.

Its not often I read one of your comments Budd and nod my head in agreement but on this I have to say yu are 100 % on the money Afobe will MAYBE a to notch plyer one day but right now we didthe right thing letting him go, the only thing that I will say is that we have always let players go when the world asked why and on hindsight have been proven right, HOWEVER why have we had players like Diaby on the books when it was clear he would never ever be fit enough to fulfil his potential and why on earth have we currently got Sanogoals or Wellbeck on our books whe its obvious to all and their mothers that neither of these kids will ever be anything other than average squad players at best.

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