Sentence examples for arm thrust from inspiring English sources

Speedy and sure, his arm thrust back the hatch.

Methodical and precise, he analyzes a scene into minute components—a door closing, an arm thrust out and gathers the fragments into seamless units; he wants you to live inside the physical event, not just experience the sensation of it.

The arm thrust was part of the sequence, and the cane added a kind of exclamation point, but what Tharp congratulated him on, with the hint of a grin herself, was finishing on the count of eleven, just in time.

As he entered the courtroom dressed in a dark suit, Mr. Breivik offered a display of defiance, delivering a clenched-fist salute with his right arm thrust rigidly from his body, but then shook hands with court officers.

At the Ice House last month, they tirelessly went through their program over and over, refining details like an arm thrust or a hand position, and tried to keep from getting too excited.

I've always loved the personification lurking in that use of the word, as though a corn stalk among the soybeans were like a zealous schoolgirl sitting in the first row of desks, arm thrust in the air after every question.

Arm thrusts occasionally became as dangerous as dagger blows.

Then I began worrying the chain that bound my right arm, thrusting and jerking back again, over and over, through a thousand repetitions, till finally it gave way and the arm was free.

Ms. Dessay does a nimbly choreographed routine with two female dancers who mimic each other's moves, complete with arm thrusts and head swivels matched to the stabbing rhythms in the music.

At one statue today, outside a new 680-foot concrete communications tower in central Baghdad built to replace one obliterated by a 1998 American air attack, self-consciously enthusiastic Iraqis clustered for photographs before a 30-foot bronze casting of Mr. Hussein, a pistol at his hip, a military beret on his head, his right arm thrusting forward as if commanding a new assault.

And as the night progressed, I thought, wow, there's nothing worse than an ugly guy who can't dance -- I'd never seen so many unwarranted arm thrusts and head bobs.