Sentence examples for a curious gesture from inspiring English sources

I thought it was a curious gesture for someone in her position.

It's a curious gesture that perhaps hints at some of the tensions of the film's production.

Just in case anybody had indeed failed to spot him, he made a curious gesture of tapping his forehead with the palms of both hands.

The girl, bathed in window light and eagerly smiling, sits on the front edge of her chair, holding a goblet in one hand and resting her open hand palm up on the corner of the table in a curious gesture of receptivity.

A curious gesture to be thousands of times repeated, for under the pall there was no coffin, & the crown was a prop, standing for the true crown in Rose, but it was a means, half a world away, of bidding farewell to the great Pope in death, & it sufficed.

Neither Ross nor her memoir are cited by name in "Wish I Could Be There" — she is "a writer at the magazine" with "an adopted son" — a curious gesture of suppression in a book dedicated to getting things out in the open.

It was a slightly curious gesture: last week, Boston Market, the national chain of rotisserie chicken restaurants, removed the salt shakers from its tables, replacing them with small placards — tucked next to the pepper shakers — promoting the company's interest in reducing sodium.

Some warders have their teeth overlapping the tops of their shields, a curious biting gesture thought to identify them as "berserkers": Nordic warriors who went into battle in frenzied states that might have been induced by alcohol or Amanita muscaria, hallucinogenic mushrooms.

This curious gesture has the effect of making those not standing--most notably the ten or twelve representatives of the prosecution who are in court on any given day--look almost rude.

To Westerners, it seemed a curious tribute: a gesture of respect from a self-proclaimed democratic reformer to a chief of an infamous machine of repression.

Their clangorous guitar sound, designed to fill sports arenas, seems immensely powerful, while the nuances in Stipe's performance style are more readily apparent, a curious mixture of grand gestures and weird nervous tics.