Sentence examples for merest nod from inspiring English sources

I imagine Osman might have humoured me, but eventually vetoed this, as he was determined to make Two Tribes a regular, mainstream daytime quiz show without the merest nod to BDSM or Eighties Scouse Hi-NRG synthpop.

Admittedly, he's tracking a serial killer with a new and especially vile kink, but there's only the merest nod towards why being messed up by mum and dad should lead to this particular form of behaviour.

More than a mere nod to its namesake, the lobby of Fechin Inn is filled with beautiful replicas of the artist's carvings, and the walls are covered with lithographs and prints of his work.

All I could do in response was limit my answer to a mere nod.

The nod of acknowledgment is a mere nod of the head in either an upwards or downwards motion.

What a pleasure, what a pleasure to enter the Dante once again and to signal the waitress with the merest of nods: the usual.

Since homophobia barely seems to exist in the football lexicon, that mere passing nod to the word carried some significance at the time, though player recognition of one of the last taboos of the game rapidly vanished once again when it came to producing a video to campaign against it.

iPhone / iPad HeadTurn is the latest digital sheet-music app for iPad, with the twist here being its ability to turn pages in response to a mere head-nod from the musician using it.

But after a recent trip to a Broadway play, I felt crushingly homesick for the stage, and decided to email my now-successful Westchester friend mere months before his Tony nod to ask if I could enroll in his scene study class.

It has no website, and the store's Instagram presence, a fleeting nod to the digital world, is a mere echo of its analog insistencies.

The studies presented here showed that treatment of NOD mice with the epigenetic modifier, I-BET151, for a mere 2 weeks prevented the development of NOD diabetes life-long.