Sentence examples for vigorous nod from inspiring English sources

His remark was greeted not with laughter, but with a vigorous nod from a neighbor.

McLarty, whose McLarty Companies owns ten car dealerships, cried, "This is exciting!" Musk gave a vigorous nod, and stood ready to field questions.

Are we that worthy?" All questions for Northern Guy to field with a vigorous nod, while Southern Man sadly wonders if his life can actually get worse.

This inspired some vigorous nodding.

When he talks, he favors the Socratic monologue — a series of questions that he poses to himself, then answers, punctuated by "ahhh" and much vigorous nodding.

His method of conducting - straddling a piano stool turned lengthways, leading with vigorous nods and rolls of the head -may be unconventional but his exuberance brought many rewards.

And as Erin Brockovich becomes a crusader for justice, "Erin Brockovich" becomes a doggedly conventional crusader-for-justice Hollywood soap opera, a smooth second-hand amalgam of "Norma Rae" and "Silkwood," with vigorous nods to "The Rainmaker" and "A Civil Action".

"It is not correct to suggest that a fair inference can be that they were all News of the World employees," he said, provoking a spate of vigorous nodding on the part of Rhodri Davies QC, representing News International.

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.

When he lopes through the prison, he teasingly greets passing guards and inmates — "Look out, now!" and "He ain't playin'!" — then, when they stop him to register what are sometimes esoteric grievances, he responds with vigorous nods and says "Sheez!" and "Oh, my!" and usually promises a fix, proud of his ability to bend the most rigid of bureaucracies.

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.