Sentence examples for cheek manner from inspiring English sources

In an essay called "A ver si lo entiendo" ("Let Me Get This Straight") Toussaint laid out, in a tongue and cheek manner, the steps that she would have had to take to live without citizenship in her own country: First, I have to find an academy to learn Creole.

Floating the idea of secession over this, even in a somewhat tongue in cheek manner, is a very different story.

During filming, Gillian Anderson performed her lines in a tongue in cheek manner, which resulted in Carter informing her that her lines were not meant to be humorous and that the production staff was having to edit out various shots.

The spot includes a barely dressed woman, but she is treated in a tongue-in-cheek manner.

We scored 256 goals and the defending was so bad," he says, in tongue-in-cheek manner, referencing the side's perceived weak area.

The two partners described in a tongue-in-cheek manner in my memo as "tormentors" are lawyers with whom I regularly worked, whom I greatly respect and whom I consider personal friends now that I have left.

The catalog channels popular culture in the typical Barneys tongue-in-cheek manner; the inspirations this time include Quentin Tarantino movies, the vintage British TV series "The Avengers" and the "chop-socky" cinema of Bruce Lee.

He spoke with the sucked-in-cheeks manner of a man holding forth with unearned authority, as he said: It's highly unlikely, Lee, regarding the patterns set forth by his previous movements, that he would alas venture, as I've said a few times before, to risk arriving at a location known to fit into his past movements.

I've written about this in a tongue-in-cheek manner before, but it actually is a real problem on several different levels.

"We would be surprised if every other party does not have a similar outlet, where conversations of an equally candid and tongue-in-cheek manner take place.

Created in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek manner by two artists-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University, it uses a heart-rate monitor that connects to Bluetooth to measure your response to people around you.