Sentence examples for affectionate knowing from inspiring English sources
Before long the brothers were making videos with well-known figures — they mercilessly tease Nick Cannon, the rapper/executive/former child star/husband of Mariah Carey; they also play Scrabble with the notoriously grammatically flexible rapper Max B. The clips were affectionate, knowing and quietly savage, sending up hip-hop as only family members could.
William Ruhlmann of allmusic gave the score a positive review, stating it is "...an affectionate and knowing satire of the history of Hollywood action movie music, penned by an insider".
It, too, delights in ostentatious tradition for its own sake; knowing yet affectionate cribbing from the recent past.
In other words, their dialogue was so knowing and affectionate and uncondescendingly funny about the whole Oprah ethos that I felt practically giddy watching it.
The movie is a knowing and affectionate throwback to the lurid, post- Terminator" action movies of the late 1980s and early '90s and the latest collaboration from director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett.
It becomes clear why an affectionate term for singing a song without knowing where it is heading is called a "suicide rhyme".
"Boy, did I get one," she said to knowing laughs, adding: "A strong man for his age, and surprisingly affectionate".
His unique talent for researching, knowing, remembering, and analyzing the law earned him the respectful and affectionate title of "The Law Man".
Directed by Brian Cook, who was an assistant director on the Kubrick films "The Shining," "Barry Lyndon" and "Eyes Wide Shut," and written by Anthony Frewin, who was Kubrick's personal assistant, "this arch, episodic movie is really an affectionate sequence of in-jokes conceived as a posthumous homage to Kubrick by two knowing insiders," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
Not knowing is worse than knowing.
