Still, if Mr. Cosby wants to play games and wink at his work for sympathy, he should wink at all of it.
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Still, she gets to wink at our perception of her.
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They know he's high-quality, and they wink at each other.
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Western sweets, even at their most refined, wink at the devil.
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Maybe she wouldn't even say a word, just wink at him.
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I wink at him and put the thousand on the counter.
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So what's up with that little wink at the fossil fuel industry?
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May's personal style seems to wink at this role of national dominatrix.
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They often wink at the genre's sillier hallmarks, like its completelylowercasesongtitles, its period.heavy.band.
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No, because you're above board and you did not just wink at me.
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Right away Nance wanted me to "wink" at a cute and much younger guy.
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Visually, The Boss Baby feels like a wink at the animation junkies in the audience.
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A few shows do wink at different kinds of blackness, offering a better way forward.
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The whole system is devised to incentivize and wink at any kind of off-label marketing.
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Danica Patrick can't even look out the driver-side window and wink at the pit crew.
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The license plate of her car—X MI24 SPY—is a knowing wink at her detractors.
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Mr. Bennell would come for dinners at his home and wink at him across the table.
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She's not going to wink at an open-source mutt who shakes her tits in the street.
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The new logo is a wink at its internet roots, replacing the "ill" in Mozilla with "://" instead.
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The more polite Open cans warm up the bass, soften the treble, and wink at you invitingly.
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Basically, the point of these devices is to let a show wink at its most loyal viewers.
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It's like Tinder created a way for users to wink at cat callers on the digital street.
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The game's tongue-in-cheek marketing copy is a wink at the Amazon products we love to mock.
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Swaggering up to the door, I wink at every businessman I see to get me in the mood.
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"Cut to Justin Timberlake, please, and he'll just wink at me or something," Fallon said to the producers.
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The show was designed for children, but it's peppered with in-jokes that wink at teenagers and adults.
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As his multiple arms rotate, they cause his eyes to flicker, in an almost smug wink at the viewer.
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For years, Brian's uncle, Brent, the longtime CBS sportscaster, always tried to wink at the gamblers watching his games.
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That's why Pelosi, Schumer and Perez are wrong not to at least wink at the activists calling for impeachment.
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The way Lenny stops to wink at the camera at the end encapsulates the coquettish essence of the show.
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But the film does include a little wink at that other webslinger, for comic book fans paying close attention.
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It's a clear wink at how this film fits into the long history of Black socio-political thinking, and storytelling.
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We'll be able to watch the star wink at us across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and hopefully, decode its message.
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Sometimes in the ring an adversary will wink at Shields, blow a kiss, grin wildly or stick out her tongue.
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Would Davos really find Gendry so fast, then wink at the audience that he thought the kid was "still rowing"?
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Put these together and the result is an academic system that is willing to wink at ethical lapses, they say.
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Wealthy old men in Italy roll their eyes at American puritanism and wink at peccadilloes that we call sexual abuse.
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For the next 343 years, the line became Jobs' catchphrase, the showman's wink at Apple's cycle of secrecy and surprise.
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Even as viewers long for some emotional payoff, Salley and Fujiwara wink at us and refuse to rise to the bait.
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The whole point of the Southern strategy and dog whistles is to acknowledge and wink at these issues for white voters.
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During her first romp in her new home at the zoo in Munich, Germany, the overachiever appeared to wink at the camera.
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You can see the car with no steering wheel, or pedals, wearing lights that can wink at pedestrians, in the video above.
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That his boxing-ring nickname is "The Pazmanian Devil" and his robe sports little devil ears seems like a wink at this.
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Informal male-dominated courts known as khap panchayats strive to prevent inter-caste marriages (and, it is whispered, wink at honour killings).
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There is something to be said about a gymnast who can wink at the judges in the middle of a difficult routine.
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Rather than condemning the Democratic embrace of race baiters, Trump seems disturbingly content to wink at race baiters of a different complexion.
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"Don't screw up my favorite song," she said, and winked at me (people used to wink at each other unironically, I swear).
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"Stranger" is radically straightforward for a horror story: It isn't trying to trick you, and it isn't trying to wink at you.
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Young readers will enjoy searching for the bully, whose red-and-white striped shirt is surely a wink at Martin Handford's Waldo.
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"They&aposd wink at me like &aposyou&aposre gonna be okay, you&aposre fine, were proud of you, you did good.&apos"
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Twice, one lawyer fell asleep during testimony, prompting the judge to wink at Al, who let in a bit more March air.
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But it also raises questions about his administration's tendency to wink at extremists and its somewhat inexplicable habit of flirting with anti-Semitism.
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Paratopic is worlds away from the wholesome blockiness of much modern low-poly art, and it doesn't knowingly wink at its anachronistic looks.
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That means regularly logging in, daring to like or wink at people you find attractive and messaging first too, irrespective of your gender.
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The photo homage is a great wink at huge Gomez fans who will likely pick up on the star's subtle nod right away.
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It starts where it ends, with me sitting on the couch, when I pick up a blue cup and wink at the camera.
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One male state court judge would wink at me in court and asked me into his chambers to ask about my love life.
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"I would rather die in a more normal way — by a cult," he says, a playful wink at the CW drama's famously wild plotting.
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Tumblr taught her to wink at award shows, particularly after performances or speeches that may or may not have been shots at ex-boyfriends.
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It hits plot points to get to the next plot point to get to the next time when it can wink at its audience.
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After the stumble, Rubio was even followed on the campaign trail by protesters dressed in robot costumes, a sarcastic wink at Rubio's formulaic delivery.
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The friends he'd been at the bar with and my friend from work wave to us, comically wink at us, but it doesn't register.
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Tonally, it's incredibly similar too, with a reliance on the sort of silly, overly-technical jargon that seems constantly to wink at the audience.
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With a wink at art theorists, Jensdotter produces imitations of imitations, medium from content, and the result is a superior visual and analytical experience.
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The lawsuit also claims that the $22018 price was rounded up from $419, in an apparent wink at his then-girlfriend, the musician Grimes.
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The lawsuit also claims that the $420 price was rounded up from $419, in an apparent wink at his then-girlfriend, the musician Grimes.
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Bong is one of the most aesthetically sly directors on the world stage, openly using mise en scene and framing to wink at the audience.
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Click here to view original GIFIt's always a nice wink at an unknowing audience when a movie reveals a huge spoiler during the movie itself.
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"When Trump criticizes 'all types of racism' he's using false equivalence to wink at those who peddle in the distortions of white grievance," Rather tweeted.
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It could be a mischievous wink at the accusations of plagiarism that have dogged him in the past, which Dylan has dismissed as academic nonsense.
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The crudeness of the handmade stencil, and the anonymity of the artisan behind it, seemed to wink at the message it was meant to convey.
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That enthusiasm came across in the show's opening, which featured an animated Rosie soaring through the streets of Manhattan, a wink at the credits of Bewitched.
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After all these years, they realize that the only change bigger than splitting up would be sticking together, like they should (heavy wink at the camera).
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Mr. Colbert then took the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater to deliver a monologue that tried to wink at the possibility of a Trump victory.
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It wasn't particularly resonant, but sometimes a show just wants to take a breather, set up new pieces, have some fun and wink at the audience.
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Well, it seems, you start with names, like The Perfect V, The Honey Pot Company, and SweetSpot, that only wink at where the product is intended for.
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So it makes sense that Fox's version would want to wink at this tradition somehow — but it lacks the imagination to do it in an interesting way.
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Good luck to Sexy Kevin Hart once he loses those binoculars and has to wink at everyone over a pair of sexy librarian thick-framed glasses instead!
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Google Assistant "is a millennial librarian who understands cultural cues, and can wink at things," said Ryan Germick, who leads the personality efforts in building Google Assistant.
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MEXICO CITY — To wink at the New Orleans Saints' rise, they bellowed "When the Saints Go Marching In," doing their best, if slightly accented, Louis Armstrong impersonation.
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"Our goal was to wink at Charmed while still making an episode of Grey's Anatomy," Vernoff, who worked on seasons 3-6 of Charmed, tells PEOPLE exclusively.
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At their summer camp in the Berkshires, nicknamed Banglewood to wink at the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood, they encourage young participants to band together in their own collectives.
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On a show that loves its meta jokes as much as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the temptation to wink at the camera about the recasting could have been overwhelming.
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The humor has no organic connection with the setting or the characters, it's just a desperate wink at the fourth wall in the hopes of drawing a laugh.
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She doesn't wink at us, because that's not what a professional does; she doesn't project condescension toward the material either, though you couldn't blame her if she did.
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Some opera buffs have bristled at their title's wink at the Puccini opera, especially after Mr. Adams confessed in an interview that he does not really know it.
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A young Kurt Loder asks whether sampling in music is closer to art or plagiarism, and the scene is more than a self-referential wink at the audience.
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Mr Ryan's pep talk had a noble aim: assuring youngsters that when demagogues practice identity politics or wink at campaign-trail violence, they are betraying the Founders' cerebral ideals.
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She lifted a stirring passage on regional identity from a speech by François Fillon, the defeated centre-right candidate, which her aides insisted was a "wink" at his electorate.
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And lastly, Hernandez, who threw a cheeky wink at the judges' direction before dominating her floor routine, did so wearing the most precisely flicked cat eye we've ever seen.
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There seems to be a wink at that at the outset: The first song opens with something like a quivering foghorn, suggesting a distance that can't quite be overcome.
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"They said I wouldn't be welcome here," Ocasio-Cortez said upon arriving in Grand Rapids on Saturday, a wink at the pundits -- some of them elected, like Illinois Sen.
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" Sure, doing drugs isn't compulsory—*turns to wink at camera*—but as Oscar Wilde once said, "the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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The song begins with a wink at Sixpence None the Richer's "Kiss Me," and sneaks in a reference to the British R&B heartthrob Craig David — familiar, pleasant triggers.
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Newton's exasperated and aptly melodramatic delivery of Jane's accusation that her cruel stepbrother is "like a slave-driver" is a knowing contemporary wink at this timeless yet dated classic.
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It's simultaneously minuscule and brazen, serving no real function other than a cheeky wink at the audience and a demonstration that the people making the show are enjoying themselves.
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" (Though we begged to differ at the time.) And Andi Dorfman's tagline was a wink at her relationship with former Bachelor Juan Pablo: "She's looking for the right Juan one.
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"I would say so," McKee told reporters with a wink at the Musicares Tribute to Lionel Richie Saturday night, when asked if she thought he was an "upgrade" from Mayer.
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The moment when Dany and her advisers doubt Jon's White Walker story, however, was a bit of an antidote to that—it was a sort of wink at the audience.
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Here he has fun with the format, using a cheeky introduction in each episode that serves both to catch new viewers up and to wink at his own show's frivolousness.
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"Nightmare" described a lynching, and "A Wink at Justice" told the story of a shrewd judge who makes a Solomonic decision in the case of eight black men arrested for gambling.
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This twee presentation is destined for Instagram, the idea of perfume as a behatted little friend with a jaunty name that might wink at you from your vanity while you sleep.
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Omar essentially seemed to wink at a wild and baseless conspiracy theory and then, when called on it, retreated to a more defensible claim without apologizing or disavowing it in any way.
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Since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in 2628, internet service providers have been allowed to wink at unauthorized uploads of copyrighted works, and artists have been vilified for objecting.
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Occasionally he'll turn to wink at his wife Kathleen, who, dressed in black and accompanied by two close female friends, has sat in the front spectator row behind her husband every day.
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Your government is not supposed to conduct trade talks with third parties before Britain has left the EU, but your partners may wink at Mr Fox's globetrotting if you have earned their trust.
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As with "Personnage" (1947), the mismatched eyes in "Visage de femme" are a wink at the idea that human identities are collections of broken but hip syntax — at once polyphonic and forever marginal.
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Lizzo went on to swap out the lyrics to her hit song as a wink at the Timberwolves center, singing "new man on the Minnesota Timberwolves" at the tail end of her interview.
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She may be the coolest teenager on the planet in 2019, but this feels like a knowing wink at the pop world's love of bad girls, or better yet good girls gone bad.
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Yes, the play they're in is awful, but it's a lot of fun to watch the show wink at itself via characters who are offering a meta take on everything we've seen so far.
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On-demand delivery math: Sliceline, a new startup Pied Piper encounters, is ordering pizzas from Domino's and selling them for a lower price — a wink at the dubious, unprofitable economics of many delivery startups.
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It was also, one could assume, a not-so-subtle wink at the show's attendees, many of whom recorded the whole thing via Instagram (photos that live somewhere in one of Facebook's sprawling data farms).
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But that was part of what Mr. Bowie got up to in the 1980s: playing nasty in movies like "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" and "Labyrinth"; having a campy wink at notions of white male power.
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"We might wink at the idea on Jibo's website that 'he loves to be around people and engage with people, and the relationships he forms are the single most important thing to him,'" she writes.
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FXX's venerable comedy of miscreants and the horrible things they do has to honor the fact that its characters are dirtbags, but it also has to pull back just enough to wink at the audience.
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These writers are so smart that I assume this was an on-purpose wink at the way women talk in rom-coms sometimes, except told after they both brutally murdered someone, and it was brilliant.
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A stripped-down but playfully catholic style — combined with a sturdy, repetitive narrative frame — meant that Herriman could wink at the reader as often as he wanted, without losing his footing or boxing himself in.
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The plot twist not only leads to some drama within the Conner family but it gives the producers a chance to wink at how important both women were to series, which aired from 1988 to 1997.
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"The biggest compliment I give the movie is that they instantly understood that the only way this would ever work was to go at it completely seriously and not to wink at the audience," he said.
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In what constitutes the show's most overt wink at the silly tropes of the movies being spoofed, Ruby steps almost literally off a bus from Utah and into a Broadway musical on the verge of crisis.
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But rather than underline that this is what they're doing, the two writers use their series to wink at these topics, telling great jokes about all of them, while occasionally leaning into something earnest and heartfelt.
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He never shuts up, and being supernaturally self-aware gives him the ability to wink at the audience, letting them know that the rules governing good sense and even good storytelling don't really apply to him.
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Yet it left me profoundly sad, because the misogyny onstage, which Ms. Lloyd doesn't wink at or try to mask the way so many directors do, didn't feel like a relic of the late 16th century.
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By referring to the president by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, he continues to wink at some of his staunchest supporters: conspiracy theorists obsessed with the false claim that Mr. Obama is a secret Muslim.
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Mr. James has even helped coin the name "Silicon Slopes" to brand the region — a wink at the Bay Area and a nod to the renowned ski areas in the state, home to the 22 Olympics.
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It's been like that for 20 years, that the entertainment and art world has shied away from sincerity, real sincerity, because they feel they have to wink at the audience because that's what the kids like.
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But the filmmakers do wink at the audience when they include a more traditional kind of chopped and screwed track: the slowed-down mix of Jidenna's "Classic Man" that plays in the background in this scene.
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It's been like that for 20 years, that the entertainment and art world has shied away from sincerity, real sincerity, because they feel they have to wink at the audience because that's what the kids like.
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"I will never forget the energy of that cast," he said emphatically, while recalling how, during the last number of the show, everyone already onstage made sure to smile or wink at him before he walked on.
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There was one moment where I wrote a joke which required Obama to wink at the end, and I realized that, you know, he's the leader of the free world and I had compelled him to do that.
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Salemme, who headed the New England family of La Cosa Nostra, shuffles in and out of the courtroom, hunched over, only occasionally lifting his head to wave and wink at a reporter who has covered him for decades.
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That's why so many contemporary rom-coms include a knowing wink at the audience, so that everyone involved can feel that they are in on the joke — and to a certain extent, that they are above what they're watching.
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On its own, malido is rich enough, but here it was buried under ice cream and melted chocolate and presented seething on a cast-iron plate — a wink at a Mumbai trend from a few years back of "sizzling" brownies.
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As Catalans struggled to define themselves culturally against the Spanish, the dragon as a symbol became a veiled wink at Catalan ingenuity to vanquish any foe and any beast that seeks to colonize them and deprive them of their autonomy.
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But it did inflame the Muslim areas of Jammu & Kashmir with brutal policing, launch risky airstrikes against Pakistan and wink at alarmingly regular beatings and lynchings of Muslims and low-caste Hindus for various perceived insults to the religion of the majority.
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Harrington stayed busy after "One Day" went off the air, continuing to guest on TV shows, to voice cartoon characters and to wink at the Schneider character on episodes of "The King of Queens" and "Hot in Cleveland" (the latter with Bertinelli).
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Dove, who is originally from Trinidad and has designed for Pagwah the past nine years, says she drew inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement—evident in the pleather vests and berets that wink at the Black Panther Party's own chic uniform.
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Sure, the dialogue tends toward the "our whole lives have been screwed up" school of rhetoric, as one might expect from an enterprise that walks a commendable knife edge between utter seriousness and a knowing wink at the histrionics of it all.
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The choice was either a wink at the uproar over the $2,900 pink lace Burberry trench she wore at her first Apple event last September or a revision meant to draw less attention from the real star objects of the show (computers, etc.).
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Rebecca's confusion is more than a meta wink at the audience, and so is the title of the episode, "I'm Not the Person I Used to Be." The hour is an exploration of how we change over time, and how our perceptions of people change.
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Completely distinct from the nondescript deli where most New Yorkers buy their bagels and schmear, these restaurants are a testament to what Parisians think America is, decked out alternately in 1950s diner memorabilia or exposed brick—a wink at the current Parisian obsession with Brooklyn.
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More likely is that the dignified monks ate their bread and roots and wine, as they vowed — and then some late-18th-century chef made an edible vegetable sculpture with meat at its center and called it chartreuse, a wink at the leguminous monks.
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The name immediately struck me as a knowing wink at the subset of young people in the area familiar with that indigenous New York Jewish tradition (shops selling the sorts of chilled fish and dairy products and one might presumably schmear on a New York bagel).
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Unlike other Latina pop divas like Jennifer Lopez or Shakira, whose booty-shaking has always been presented as straightforwardly sexual, Cabello — who grew up and launched her career in the context of the meme-centric culture of the aughts — prefers to wink at all of it.
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The plan has three main legs: • Green Apollo Program: With a name that's an obvious wink at the space race, Warren says that $400 billion will need to be invested in clean energy research in development in the next 10 years, a more than tenfold increase.
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I remember when I worked in an office as a phone sex operator, I would read her book "Gettin' Buck Wild" on the train on the way to work while feeling embarrassed when other commuters would see the cover of the book and wink at me.
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It's in this context that one can mount a defense of sorts for Mr. Weinstein, who inhabited a moral universe that did nothing but cheer his golden touch and wink at (or look away from) his transgressions — right until the moment that it became politically inconvenient to do so.
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Hemsworth excels in the very silly role, providing the film with another comedic release valve — one who can be just unbelievable enough in his utter vapidity to allow the movie to wink at its audience every so often about how crazy the universe it takes place in is.
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Saint Hoax granted VICE Arabia an exclusive interview and a sneak peak at the exhibit, which will include a large installation of a wedding cake topped with a Saudi bride flanked by four grooms, titled Just Desserts (2018)—a daring wink at the current state of affairs in the Middle East.
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" (They appreciate the wink.) At the end of June, it was America's fourth-most-popular movie, continuing the year of good fortune for her and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, another actor who struggled to find his lane as a star, settling for "disfigured comic-book hero" in the surprise winter blockbuster "Deadpool.
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The credits don't appear until the third episode of this series, and when I heard the recognizable Hendrix guitar rift, combined with the pope's devious wink at the end, I truly understood the tone that Sorrentino was trying to create: kind of an Amy Poehleresque "I'm not like regular popes — I'm a cool pope" vibe.
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With X-Communicate, released this past May on Sub Pop, Kristin offers up bold, bright collection informed by her love of pop hooks sharp as darts and tunes that wink at the glossy radio smashes of the 245s and early 212s—there are saxophones and there are synths to slide side-to-side to.
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In any case, it was worth it just to see Mark Hamill's wink at his old protocol pal.) Force projection hasn't really been seen before in the filmed Star Wars universe, at least not outside the Star Wars Rebels cartoon (where young apprentice Ezra is haunted by an apparent Force projection of Darth Maul).
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This is a wink at the shift in many American units from being foot-mobile to vehicular, as grunts buttoned up within armored trucks and needed turret-mounted firepower to defend themselves — a matériel adaptation forced by ambushes and improvised bombs, the cheaply made weapons that wearied the most expensive military in the world.
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Removing the laugh track from a show built around one produces surreal and sometimes eerie results, and a sitcom whose characters wink at viewers through a screen rather than from a stage conjures its own version of reality: broad, at times a little cartoonish, and difficult to structure without the scaffolding of a live laugh-o-meter.
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The desire to wink at extremism has remained — witness his Charlottesville response — but it's been somewhat kept in check by staff and aides, and the mix of white nationalists and alt-right provocateurs who fastened onto him in 2016 have seen their stars dim and a much more conventional group of right-wing grifters take their place.
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Or, as re-envisioned by Chris Kajioka at Senia, in Honolulu, it might be a mossy cliff of charred cabbage — a wink at an iceberg wedge — dusted with shio kombu (shredded kelp boiled in soy and mirin), soaked through with dashi and ginger, and surrounded by daubs of heady green goddess dressing and buttermilk turned to gel.
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With lyrics that celebrate freedom, self-discovery, and being comfortable in one's own skin — including some that seem to wink at Styles' possible queerness, a theory bolstered by its super gay music video and the song's release on National Coming Out Day — "Lights Up" is the anthem that a fluid, new-age icon like Styles deserves.
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Sometimes this comes in the form of a giant wink at the audience — for instance, in Ocean's Twelve, when Julia Roberts plays a character named Tess who is brought into the plot partly for her uncanny resemblance to … Julia Roberts: There's a hint of this self-referentiality, too, in Logan Lucky, in a way that actually seems calculated to tweak critics.
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Last year, the invitation of Alan Gross, the Maryland man freed from a Cuban prison after five years of imprisonment, was a wink at the historic revival of Cuban-American relations, while the attendance of a college student Chelsey Davis represented Obama's commitment to education as he announced plans to make the first two years of community college free for students.
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"One does not read 'Bridget Riley' so much as experience it like a retrospective exhibition," Mark Guiducci writes in his review, "in a progression that is as linear as the paintings for which she is best known: from her first paintings, copies of the pointillist Seurat, to studious geometric canvases to later mind-bending visual experiences that wink at the barriers of consciousness."
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Later, at the Tenderloin Museum, which opened in 2015 and aspires, in its own words, to "show you the heart of San Francisco uncovered," I took in photographs that both wink at the neighborhood's heady days of "girls, gambling and graft" and revel in its outsider dignity, playing up how Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Santana either performed or recorded music in the neighborhood.
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To produce costumes, she says, you must be fluent in the gradations of the past, and Michele's collections for Gucci are indeed like glorious excavations — the fashion equivalent of archaeological digs (here the Elizabethan, there the Victorian, a nod to czarist Russia, a wink at Ziggy Stardust) narrated in a century-hopping, decade-scrambling vocabulary of flowing caftans and boxy jumpsuits, floral and animal prints and brocades.
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When even Jeremy Scott, erstwhile joker of fashion, chooses not to celebrate his 20th anniversary with an all-out blast of crazy spray streamers, but rather simply wink at his past with camo and cartoons, silver sweats that will go to the ball, and rock-chick dresses made out of exactly that (strategically placed encrustations of big crystal rock), it's an acknowledgment of the complexity of the situation.
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The two African bodies previously most involved, the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a 15-country regional club led by South Africa, are sure to make high-minded noises, but their readiness in the past to whitewash Zimbabwe's rigged elections and to wink at the violence and deceit that kept Mr Mugabe in power for so long give no comfort to Zimbabwe's battered opposition or to its benighted citizens.
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Back in New York at Graffiti Earth, Mehta, who rose to acclaim 15 years ago as a provocatively cerebral pastry chef at the city's now-shuttered Aix, has quietly introduced a few dishes that nod to the pleasures of home: a dhansak-like braise of beef ribs with brown lentils; squid or scallops in a sweet-and-sour tomato sauce; and a Persian toast that is his take on brun maska, with a sly wink at Parsis' penchant for whisky, pairing the bread with so-called butterscotch — in fact a butter-and-Scotch emulsion.
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As he poked his smiley little head out of his mother and mugged to the midwife, not even Robbie—Robert back then you'll remember—covered in mucus and blood and membrane and placenta but always ready for a smile and a wink at the nurses, could have predicted he'd grow up to release an electro record that found him rapping the following lines in an incredibly stilted semi-Mancunian-cum-cockney-cum-Jamaican accent without dying of shame: OK then back to baseheadsDance like you just won at the special OlympicsI got the rudebox off the back of a spaceshipSo sick I just had to take itThe R.U.D.E.B.O.XUp your jacksie, split your kecksSing a song to SemtexPocket full of Durex, body full of MandrexAre we gonna have sex?
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