headshake

1 “If a Girl Isn’t Pretty” — written in the midcentury by, you guessed it, two white male Broadway composers — is the sound of a paternalistic shrug, a headshake of gee-shucks empathy.

2 She was obviously, inevitably, impulsively the original product, and Uncle Percival never realised this more hopelessly than in that unresponsive headshake of dismissal.

3 Then as he gave a headshake which, though slow, was deeply mature: "You won't go?"

4 General Assembly that drew headshakes and even mocking laughter from his audience of fellow world leaders.

5 She whipped her bird’s nest hair about, a vicious headshake that sent dust and bugs airborne.

6 They will be relived years and decades down the road, with incredulous headshakes over the sheer improbability of making the sainted Peyton Manning look like some rattled rookie.

7 “I couldn’t,” said Bessie, with the slowest gravest gentlest of headshakes.

8 "Join us," they begged, but a smiling headshake was the negative reply.

9 He gives her the slightest, almost imperceptible headshake.

10 I gave him the sad sad sad headshake.

11 Repeated in Spanish, the latter suggestion drew vigorous headshakes from both muleteers.

12 That must be what the frown and the headshake meant.

13 She did not even answer this with her usual headshake, but began walking resolutely back over the way we had come.

14 And it was the former that caused his headshake, not the latter.

15 The nurse puts in a headshake as protest.

16 She gave a long, slow, soundless headshake, merciful only in being inarticulate.

17 When his attention returned to Medart, he echoed the Ranger's headshake.

18 He came back, whether in good faith or in bad, to that; and it made her repeat her headshake.

19 "She mopes for lack of proper exercise," he exclaimed, with a gentle headshake of reproach.

20 General Assembly that drew headshakes and even laughter from fellow world leaders.

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