Sentence examples for as a handshake from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere in the volume, he describes biography as a "handshake" and "a simple act of complex friendship".

But the Friday call as Mr. Rouhani was heading to the airport to fly home to Iran, after four days of frenetic diplomacy in the United States, was almost as good as a handshake.

If you're already tired of the word "cool," remember that "to use the word 'cool' well is to partake of a central ritual of global culture as profound and as universal as a handshake".

In a world where bodies quiver and shake in music videos, where shirtless Calvin Klein models lick the sweat off each other and sex can be as casual as a handshake, how do you navigate your way through it if you actually cannot have sex?

For the Daily Telegraph, it represents "history in a handshake", while the i sees it as a "handshake to put the Troubles behind us".

For starters, the companies have what Tucci described as "a handshake agreement" for Dell to manufacture EMC's forthcoming low-end Clariion storage products.

He was as likely to greet an officer with open arms and a cry of "Give me some love!" as with a handshake or a salute.

He puts as much effort into a handshake as a boxer does his right hook, and it's clear that he takes his music very seriously indeed.

Approaching each other to perform a hug is visually similar to a handshake, as can be seen in Fig. 10.

There's something downright Clintonian about her ability to communicate energy and empathy in the time span of a handshake -- as well as her gift for enlisting business and entertainment celebrities to her cause.

To add a physical element, the researchers have each person squeeze the other's hand, as if in a handshake.