noddingly

Brooke noddingly appealed to that motive, Sir James felt a sudden embarrassment; there was a stoppage in his throat; he even blushed.

Kitson swapped Playhouse proscenium and contemplation of the after-life, for Everyman thrust stage, sitting down to noddingly and knowingly converse about his love for a lost home, and reminding us, from the outset, that the derivation of "nostalgia" has as much to do with fear as comfort.