Sentence examples for discreet nod from inspiring English sources
Sister accepted the information with only a discreet nod.
In 1959, the year of Chandler's death, his great English admirer Ian Fleming permitted himself a discreet nod of homage.
There are tantalising hints about her bohemian youth in Paris and a discreet nod at the end towards her sexual reorientation.
Jason gave a discreet nod to the short, wall-eyed man behind the desk.
Dance fund-raising is now of an entirely different nature, of course, but it tends to go on out of public view, with hushed tones and discreet nods.
Always a class act, a kind of top-of-the-range Lexus among soulmen, Vandross has clung to his traditional strengths - lush melodies and artful arrangements, sung with that elegantly beseeching voice - while incorporating some discreet nods to modernity.
The acknowledgments page of many ghosted books will thank partners, children, even family pets, before making a discreet, sometimes grudging, nod to the invisible man or woman who quarried the angel from the marble.
As horses paraded around the ring and an auctioneer rattled out its pedigree and prices, buyers stood inconspicuously in the back and passed discreet signs -- a nod, a raised finger, a subtle lift of the 700-page auction catalog -- to one of the young bid-spotters, who scanned the crowd and shouted when they caught sight of a signal.
The candlelighted room's nods are discreet: a cupboard of bourbon, pages from Faulkner plastering the restroom.
Remember that pointing with your eyes and a nod of your head is a most discreet form of pointing.
