Sentence examples for knowing slightly from inspiring English sources

With films like The Sure Thing, Say Anything and High Fidelity, Cusack developed a knowing, slightly nerdy screen image that was a forerunner of what Seth Rogen is flogging in Knocked Up.

For Murphy astutely recognised the perennial market for a horror strain that verges on the kitsch; it's the knowing, slightly silly kind that fuels fairground ghost rides and haunted houses and it means American Horror Story, like Scream Queens, is at its best when its homage is most pointed.

In reality, I was welcomed with that typical hard-nosed New England humor -- a knowing, slightly disappointed look accompanied by, "Well, ya better get in here if you're going to run the thing".

"We often find ourselves following the same people," Colonel Gentili said with a knowing and slightly resigned smile.

The consciously hip tone -- knowing, intellectual, slightly self-mocking -- reflects some of the mood of Scarsdale High School in 1969.

That turns out to be fine: on most of the rest of this album, Ms. Fiona has the sturdy backdrops that her knowing and slightly husky voice needs.

She has a reedy voice and she sings a little bit deadpan, as if the force of some experience flattened her manner but also gave her a knowing and slightly aloof perspective.

After knowing him slightly several years I finally realize he is not at all what he seemed — he is totally unaware and violently allergic to whatever is going on.

I used to follow him around without him knowing, which is slightly sinister, you might think.

He thinks the fact his characters have a slightly knowing, adult perspective is one of the qualities children find appealing.

More than half a century ago, in his classic paper on the economics of speculation, Paul Samuelson noted the perverse rewards to knowing stuff just slightly before everyone else.