Sentence examples for chuckles of recognition from inspiring English sources

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"We're not poor," says one villager, to chuckles of recognition from the audience, "we just don't have any money".

That's the kind of mild laughter the bland feature-film version of "Hey Arnold!," the latest Nickelodeon cartoon to make the jump to movie screens, will probably get most often -- chuckles of recognition from the kids who have watched his adventures on his series.

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Or, you might say, cinematic to the Cinemax: this season is set around Halloween in 1984, and it deploys the masks of Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees to unique effect, at once eliciting a chuckle of recognition, a chill of the spine, and perhaps a quick swivel of the head, to check that one's parents are not intruding on a stolen moment of forbidden entertainment.

These correspondences seem meant to be transparent, to elicit a mild chuckle of recognition.

The camera dwells on one wrinkled visage after another, until it becomes clear that the entire examining board is made up of octogenarians and a chuckle of cynical recognition runs through the cinema audience.The retirement age for Italian university teachers is 72.

Writer-directors Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff riff on some amusing stereotypes about young thespians, and anyone who stayed after school for this extracurricular activity will likely offer a chuckle or two of recognition.

Do we send our children out in the world with the advice, "Try to do … okay?" Mrs. Romney added: "And let's be honest, if the last four years had been more successful, do we really think there would be this attack on Mitt Romney's success?" Cue the knowing smile, the small, sharing chuckle, and the little nods of recognition and waves as if she had just spotted a familiar face in the huge crowd.

"The first sign of recovery!" He chuckled and shook his head in a gesture of recognition that a lot of hard work still lay ahead.

A squint of recognition?

"Racism robbed Carl of recognition".

Glint of recognition?

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