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Gesticulation
noun
The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to aid expression of thoughts, sentiments or passion.
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He worked for Mobil for 15 years and speaks excellent English, albeit with ample Gallic gesticulation; he has made English the official language of Alcatel; he was even prepared to move to Lucent's New Jersey headquarters to run the merged entity.
If, however, stress was placed on "you", together with eye movement or gesticulation towards Ms Ahmad's hijab, then it could be discriminatory.
Ever since he decided to run for election, Mr Hollande has become an adept Mitterrand mimic, in gesticulation, pace and tone of voice.
Mancini, having one of those days of anguished Italianate gesticulation in the technical area, could have chosen any number of players to bring off when he sent on James Milner; he chose the ineffectual Nasri.
Probably his tears in the World Cup semi-final in 1990 when he realised that his yellow card would have ruled him out of the final (although this was arguably more memorable for Gary Lineker's gesticulation to the England manager that Gazza was about to lose his head).
After all, the day was otherwise dominated by recriminations over umpiring, while it must be said that Graeme Swann's instinctive gesticulation to the crowd, after denying Agar his ton, was in unlovely contrast to the romance he had just quenched.
But what delivers terrifying power in theatre may well play like comical gesticulation onscreen; the sort of infinitesimal gesture that the camera magnifies and the charismatic radiance that the camera discovers and conveys may be nothing at all onstage.
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Flipping through "Tremolo," you immediately confront a prickly stir of humor, philosophy and romantic giddiness; reading this book is something like walking into a kitchen at a party and coming upon a wild charmer you'd never met, mid-gesticulation -- a terrific storyteller, but also one eager to switch gears mid-sentence, mid-phrase, mid-thought.
Wenger's gesticulations showed that he felt the marginal decisions went against his team and backs came to be pressed to the wall in the second half.
Then he paced the garden of his Suffolk retreat, his wrists twirling in profound gesticulations, practising for his spontaneous prowl around the conference stage.
What art is contrasted with is practical life as lived to-day; and art, for this movement, is not the expression of life and hence the transcending of life in the contemplation of the infinite and universal, but the cries and gesticulations and broken colours of life itself.
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