Sentence examples for explained with a knowing wink from inspiring English sources

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In typical OMA fashion, everything is explained with a knowing wink, crude details justified as making a point.

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Know what I mean?" So that's that settled – he'll be accepting, with a knowing wink.

She knows that musicals are best believed when the sentimentality is minimized and the action happens with a knowing wink.

The light-toned but pain-seared "Damsels in Distress" suggests as much with a knowing wink.

Yet often a bogus note was accepted with a knowing wink.

"Assuming that they can find us," she said with a knowing wink.

The Hateful Eight brings a barrage of backstabbing, but each revelation is delivered with a knowing wink.

But this advert raises another question - is the mainstreaming of homosexuality only successful when done with a knowing wink?

It uses with a knowing wink the phrase "coming out," which connotes declaring one's gay or lesbian sexual identity.

It's all done with a knowing wink, but she then wonders whether people will realise she's joking.

But the designers who do it best – such as JW Anderson in London– do so with a knowing wink, acknowledging quite what an audacious proposition it is.

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