nod

When he was wheeled into a courtroom—though there were no charges against him—“he couldn’t lift his arms, stand, nod his head or speak. . . . His eyes rolled around in his head.”

The starting selection in Saturday's 25-7 win over Australia was Borthwick giving a nod to the stars of the successful summer tour to Argentina.

Polite nods in both directions were the order of the day.

Stillness that is not still—think Martha Graham by way of Irving Penn, with a nod to Rei Kawakubo’s mutating forms.

Nearly four years later, in a nod to Dent’s passing wizardry, Freeny conceded only that the pass was among Dent’s top five.