Hints and tips:
...She reminds me of this, then looks up at me and winks....
...They elicit a sly nod, a wink – we’re in on the joke. And then, maybe, people buy them....
...Next door to the so-called Mud Room is the Carters’ wink-wink version of a gym: a wood-panelled closet of a room with a collection of deflated leather balls, old Canadian high-school letters, vintage hockey...
...It also helps that she arrives as an unknown. (Even in Norway she was mostly overlooked.)...
...Though the vast majority of miniatures portray unknown sitters, a known provenance adds to the price....
...In the first presidential debate he gave a wink and a nod to the neo-fascist group Proud Boys, which advocates racial hatred and violence, telling them to “stand by”. We are in a moment of flux....
...Where there’s a will there’s a windfall, he seems to imply with a wink: “I’m 75. You’re 30.”...
...Their updates offer nods, winks and innuendoes on how sales went over Christmas, setting the tone for the new year. Next, in contrast and with apparent clarity, offered an earnings forecast....
...Rex Tillerson, secretary of state, remains an unknown quantity. He is also bound to a see-saw....
...But they will now do so now with feigned regret rather than an indulgent wink....
...At once hugely famous and totally unknown, the Fat Jew’s rise reflects the increasingly disparate ways in which we consume comedy....
...Until the early years of the 20th century, the concept of a teen – let alone a tween – was unknown; in western society people were classified either as adults or children....
...Little Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), a curly-haired moppet, lives with ailing dad Wink (Dwight Henry) in the Bathtub, a bayou community the wrong side of a Mississippi levee....
...And it reminds us that literature at its best inhabits what Bolaño, with a customary wink at his own pomposity, called “the territory of risk” – it takes us to places we might not wish to go....
...Since Palin was such an unknown quantity, her campaign felt the need to put her through her paces in network television interviews....
...When I came to live in Paris, I discovered an unknown chef called Joël Robuchon. He was then chef at the Hotel Nikko and allowed me to watch him work....
...This was pop without double meanings or knowing winks. When he sang “You’ve got me flying high on a magic carpet ride”, you knew this was no “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”-style trip....
...Was there another, unknown, love of her life for whom she pined? Who was the clergyman at Sidmouth? Such questions have inspired 101 Things You Didn’t Know about Jane Austen....
...Gregory’s work, often involving elements of the human skeleton presented with macabre humour (one skull winks at the viewer), will be one of the surprises in the Serpentine show....
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