Sentence examples for vigorous head from inspiring English sources

With a vigorous head shake/nod.

The vigorous head shaking that followed was construed by the priests as permission to proceed with the knife.Scientists, too, have wrestled with such feelings particularly when large-scale animal experiments started in the 18th century.

After every inning, it seemed, Price would offer a subtle show of emotion — a fist pump here, a vigorous head nod there — and he pounded his glove after pumping a 97-mile-per-hour fastball past Jorge Posada to end the second.

Another potential complication from vigorous head shaking or scratching is the formation of an aural hematoma, which is a blood clot between the layers of the ear.

Dads in the house do that vigorous head-nodding thing that dads do when they don't want their kids to see them dancing.

But it survived in the countryside, and, as in the usual colonial/post-colonial stories, there was eventually a vigorous revival, headed by cultural loyalists.

One of the songs he plans to put on the album, a collaboration with the British singer Labrinth, is set at seventy-five b.p.m., a tempo that essentially precludes any physical activity more vigorous than head-nodding; he says that it resembles Coldplay.

Vigorous debate about Head Start is always welcome.

His vigorous lines, bobbing heads and sharp elbows remind us that as well as being pristine and serene, pools can also be aggressive and feral.

Much of the transcript of the interview is Naipaul's repeated agreement to a question - 'Yes, yes, yes' - accompanied by a silent and vigorous nodding of the head, punctuated by the occasional, rather deft, question of his own.

Her level of organisation was almost German, he said – a comment which Yusra denied with a vigorous shake of her head.