Sentence examples for casual nod from inspiring English sources

Instead, the Republican candidate made a casual nod to the final force of arms.

Nothing is prepared for, and people show up and disappear without explanation; characters are eliminated with a casual nod.

Whether he means anything substantial by this seemingly casual nod at the past — specifically the 1970s, an era of spectacular terrorist attacks like that of the Palestinian group Black September on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics — it subtly, and necessarily, widens the movie's historical framework.

And XFM Manchester - a station which delightedly recounts how it burst into life with an airing of I am the Resurrection - employs 'seasoned' scene names like Clint Boon, Andy Rourke and Dave Haslam as more than a casual nod to the good old days.

You know the casual nod as he sticks a flyer out at you.

Made careless by the standing ovation the piece had received the night before, I spread the Inquirer out on a table at Pete's expecting at least a casual nod from the critic.

Laundry lists of names get checked off, and there are casual nods to fellow nominees and occasionally breathless exclamations.

Stephon Marbury leaned back in his chair and, as usual, surveyed the floor, a not-so casual observer nodding in approval.

But Neary and her budget-obsessed fellow broadcasters at NPR News are supposedly journalists charged with connecting the dots, not casual observers nodding complacently as one might over a latte at Starbuck's.

With every coy head nod, casual hand wave and deep eye gaze, I felt he already knew me.

Lamont is steady in delivering the official party line: "They'll be pulling Ed Miliband's strings" and nods casual approval when someone says "I fear what'll happen if the nationalists win" or "I can't believe what's happened.