Sentence examples for silent acknowledgment from inspiring English sources

But the more I looked at it, the more I nodded in silent acknowledgment.

When they are exhausted, they quietly lean their head on their seatmate's shoulder and doze off, a silent acknowledgment of their comfort and ease with one another.

Each grasped, in the unflinching gaze of the other, a silent acknowledgment of the nobility of man, especially as manifested in work, the work that purified the soul the way steel is purified in the smelter.

If this is not a silent acknowledgment that this administration and the people it represents have no concern for the rights and well-being of the people they claim to have liberated, what would be?

When my mother was still alive, I would nod in silent acknowledgment of the correct type of headline and then pass the story along, either by mentioning it when we spoke on the phone or by cutting it out and mailing it to her.

All I could do was exchange a glance with him, a silent moment of acknowledgment and sympathy.

Who needs an acknowledgment for their silent contributions?

She simply wore no clothes underneath her hijab in silent but nevertheless risky dissent, an acknowledgment that her femaleness, her nakedness, was her most dangerous weapon.

Louis D. Brandeis was famously distant: one of his law clerks recounted working until the small hours of the morning on a challenging opinion; as he slid his draft under the justice's door, silent fingers pulled it through, with no human acknowledgment of the joint effort.

The machines have a hold on Selznick too: the idea for the novel, he tells us in the acknowledgments, came after he read about the automata collected by Georges Méliès, the great silent filmmaker who created "A Trip to the Moon" in 1902.

Players were "shockingly silent" as they accepted a league offer that increased transitional payments by $100 million, showing no appreciation or acknowledgment, he said.