Sentence examples for a subtle gesture from inspiring English sources

It was a subtle gesture, a quick way for Nieve to congratulate himself for getting through a tricky inning for the Mets.

And more often than is assumed, a subtle gesture can be enough of a warning to trigger a change in behavior, even one's own.

More than ever, in this craft-fixated era, what's ordered in a restaurant, sent as a gift or served at a cocktail party acts as a subtle gesture about one's level of culinary sophistication.

Johnny Damon tilted his head to the left as he trotted toward first base, a subtle gesture to try and help keep his fly ball down the right-field line in fair territory.

("Not many conductors do stuff like that," Eric Wyrick, the concertmaster, said afterward. "It all does mean something -- a little sheen that might not have been there before, a subtle gesture with the elbows and hands that creates extraordinary warmth").

She is down and out in a seedy rooming house, having abandoned husband and son, when we realize it, from a subtle gesture we almost miss: Humphrey Bogart, in his B-movie gangster phase, nods at Dvorak and touches his nose to indicate her affliction to the boss, and its possible usefulness.

Instead, he makes a more subtle gesture in his video for Entourage, wearing a shirt that says "I can't breathe", the last words of Eric Garner who died in 2014 after he was put in a chokehold by an New York police officer.

This is a small, subtle gesture that may go unnoticed at first, but it demonstrates the sort of consideration a gentleman is expected to have.

NEW YORK — Michael Urie sits in a West Village restaurant making a few subtle gestures.

The Rose Theater at the Time Warner Center is a dauntingly large space to properly frame a production relying on subtle gesture and suggestion for its effects.

One of the more underrated saxophonists in jazz, Mr. Anderson is a master of the subtle gesture, the quiet manipulation of phrasing and tone.