Sentence examples for wink about from inspiring English sources

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Glencora's tipping Lopez the wink about standing for the borough of Silverbridge, long in the Palliser pocket, sets a fuse that will run down to calamity.

But apart from the odd nudge and wink about an alternative voting system there is little to excite voters whose increasingly common response is to shrug and say of their elected representatives, "They're all as bad as each other".

Churchill tips the spectators – not to say the audience – the wink about what they should feel early on: "One by one your prime ministers will fall under your spell".

"Or you know, 'I really am pro-choice, it's just that I'm on the conservative party line and I've given them a big wink about what I really mean, and I won't commit to defending Roe v. Wade in any Supreme Court nomination process in the Senate,' " she said, continuing her remarks about Mr. Lazio.

Yates' warm achievement is to tip the audience a gently knowing wink about the tricksiness of this while tackling each emotional tone and colour on its own merits and convincing you that the play adds up to a great deal more than the sum of its parts and reaches into the souls of spectators much further than a cool view of its separate components might seem to warrant.

You just have to sound really sincere (wink, wink) about chilling out, nukes-wise, for the next 10 years".

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It's not Wonder Woman winking, but Cho – and what he's winking about is that Wonder Woman isn't in on the joke.

From the multiple repetitive gags about kicking Colossus in his metal crotch, to the jokes about getting shot in one's instantly regenerating asshole, to the hoary wink-wink about Batman and Robin being gay, Deadpool assures you, over and over, that the people watching aren't supposed to be children.

Wenger gave us lots of nods and winks about Sahin but as that trail has gone cold.

For months there were hints and winks about Mr. Bloomberg's running for president as an independent.

It came after months of nods and winks about the need to streamline the overly bureaucratic regulatory framework of the Labour years.

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