Sentence examples similar to a spirited gesture from inspiring English sources

Such a mean-spirited gesture, he contended, would be too much to stomach even for the normally ultra-loyal Fianna Fáil backbenchers.

In his version, after the dog is shot in a meaningless, mean-spirited gesture by the sheriff who arrests the father, he heals himself and comes back to the family as good as new, symbolizing their resilience.

Baskets high to collect the nourishment, the biblical figures engaged in a spirited dance, their gestures broad and theatrical, positions centered and balanced.

The first to sponsor the Olympics, it has been first to gain from that public-spirited gesture as the new Stratford Westfield store boomed.

Ortiz talked, laughed and gestured his way through a spirited workout at first base.

"Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity" (Indiana Universty Press, 2000) offers a delightful introduction to the meaning of movement - some gestures unique to 19th-century Naples, others universal - as well as a spirited defense of the Neapolitan way of life.

A spirited correspondence followed.

Instead, they mounted a spirited defence.

She gives a spirited performance.

She was a spirited 94 year old.

But she was quite a spirited animal.