Sentence examples for * at a wink from inspiring English sources

Here a backdrop of brown-paper streamers changes at a wink into a forest: a book is shaken so that its leaves flap like a bird; pan pipes chime out, light goes from white to the gold of a glade; three independent women dwindle into nymphs as they incline around a lolling male god.

Taboo topics and forcing the funny at 'A Wink and Smirk'.

I never saw Malcolm wink at a woman.

The band's name has become a not so subtle wink at a bumpy history.

A Foundation's Marshallto Spotlight Self-Taught Southern Black Artists.

It was a lopsided victory of winks over smirks at "With a Wink and a Smirk," a Saturday afternoon panel discussion at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books that featured comic novelists Diana Wagman, Jerry Stahl, Mark Haskell Smith and Jim Magnuson and was moderated by David Kipen.

With at least a wink and a nod, Hallinan seems to have supported the grand jury's action.

Porn isn't something that's openly talked about; if it is, it's usually with condescension or at least a wink and a nod, even though it's a part of daily life for most men and has certainly begun to alter what is "normal" in an average sexual relationship.

Is the "streetlight" reference at the end a wink to Gary Klien?

But 10-day suspensions are at best a far cry from a reasonable penalty and at worst a wink at a serious problem where the lives and health of our kids are on the line.

There were also long, sweeping cummerbund pants at Alexander Wang that were a wink to Auntie Mame.