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Discover LudwigThe phrase "deliberate nod" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a purposeful or intentional acknowledgment or agreement, often in a subtle manner. Example: "During the meeting, she gave a deliberate nod to signal her agreement with the proposal."
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Q.Was Don's newspaper advertisement a deliberate nod to Emerson Foote A.
(Indeed, an early match cut may be a deliberate nod to Lawrence).
Noting her business skills and trailblazing female leadership seems a deliberate nod to both billionaire businessman Donald Trump and the possible first female president Hillary Clinton.
His vignette-style framing and use of black-and-white film recalls documentary photography at the turn of the twentieth century, and is a deliberate nod to the original, purely documentary purpose of the medium.
Supporters of the health care act — which Judge Vinson invalidated after ruling it was unconstitutional to require citizens to buy health insurance — saw in the language a deliberate nod to the Tea Party movement.
It feels like a deliberate nod to Ways of Seeing, the 1972 BBC series by John Berger, who is often seen, in the history of arts TV, as the leader of the liberal opposition to Clark's conservative party piece.
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A spokesman says that all the tasks are deliberate nods to other reality shows, such as Knackered, a Shattered-style challenge in which Big Brother 1 winner Craig Phillips must stay awake for a set period.
The most dramatised detective after Holmes and Poirot, Commissaire Jules Maigret (1931-72), is again distanced from the template by his Parisian location, but he too has certain Holmesian aspects (hyper-intelligence, a pipe) that feel like deliberate nods from his creator, the officially Belgian but temperamentally French Georges Simenon (1903-89).
With Midlake as his backing band, Grant assembled a tapestry of flutes, piano, strings, eerie synths and gentle drums; almost a weird, wired take on 70s soft rock with some deliberate, ironic nods to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Dean Friedman.
Maybe this is deliberate amateurism, a nod to B-movie sci-fi, but it undercuts some of the more affecting moments in "Black Friday"— as when the camera pulls back to show the small silhouette of a woman in a black abaya who has collapsed on a vast marble floor.
I wonder how deliberate his intellectual nods are, how audiences might respond to songs that reference DH Lawrence and Berlioz.
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