Sentence examples for silently acknowledge from inspiring English sources

But where, in the typical contemporary memoir, the troubled youth and the alienated father would silently acknowledge their vexed journey toward expertise and adulthood, he merely gave me an opaque look and asked if I was really sure this was a good idea, and had I run it by Mom? "Your reflexes are a bit funny, Dad," he said.

It was as if the Feds, reeling from September 11th, silently acknowledged New York's right to take extraordinary defensive measures".

In the press box I turned to Shahid Hashmi, the AFP sports stringer for Pakistan, and we both silently acknowledged a possibility.

But it was in that earlier moment, and in the surrounding phrases, that the house had held its breath and silently acknowledged that here was what in Italy they were soon to know as "La Stupenda".

Tinder without alcohol is basically two people staring at each other over a table silently acknowledging that they'd rather be anywhere else and wanting the earth to spontaneously open up and swallow them.

Commentators pointed out that the "Western European Governments uncomfortably and silently acknowledged that the Cold War and the stability of the South-Eastern flank of NATO had to take precedence over the violation of the democratic process in Greece and decided to treat the whole messy situation as an internal matter" (Pedaliu 2007, 189).

We oblige, both feeling a bit confronted, but silently acknowledging that it seems the respectful thing to do.

We all silently acknowledged that our night had finally come to a close, said our goodbyes, and went our separate ways.

Almost simultaneously the doctor and I cinched down our four point seat restraints, silently acknowledging the probability of our soon to be sudden stop in the Caribbean.

I think what was most important was that by coming back the next night, by making sure to spend time with each other, we silently acknowledged that we all had been heard and wanted to try again.

Still, I think there is a real respect between the two, which we see silently acknowledged before Don cans his next victim of the agency downsizing, the extremely diminutive Danny Siegel, he of Jane Siegel Sterling and "cure for the common whatever" lineage.