Sentence examples for a flutter of fingers from inspiring English sources

She moved mostly from above the waist, where her signature gestures were intact: an arm flung upward, a flutter of fingers frantically beckoning the audience to "come to the cabaret".

Then there is the matter of his arms, which slowly rise and fall, sometimes with a fluttering of fingers that suggests the music is being summoned from the air or let go.

His acts included "Creation," in which the start of the world began with a fluttering of his long fingers as fish and birds, and ended with Adam and Eve skulking out of Eden.

A flutter of noise brought her awake.

Once, hearing a flutter of wings, Tuca said: "Vultures.

Not guns, not thunder, but a flutter of clouded drums.

With a flutter of wings, he was gone.

A flutter of the hands and you imagine the fingernails.

I could feel a flutter of shame in my shoulders.

A bend, a twist, a slide of foot, a flutter of light.

So many batons have flown from Gergiev's hand into audiences and orchestras over the years that he now conducts with a toothpick, or with an inimitable flutter of the fingers.