Sentence examples for astonishing gesture from inspiring English sources

Sadat felt that he had more or less done his bit for peace by that astonishing gesture; the grouchy Israelis were less spontaneous.

It was an astonishing gesture of conciliation between right and left that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago, when politics was still riven by recriminations from Chile's era of repression, torture and political murder.

“The final shot, accompanied by an improbable but perfect musical cue, is an astonishing cinematic gesture, an appalling, hilarious statement about modern values, the state of the world, human nature and everything else.

Greer had taken McKellen to task for the doddery shaking of his hands: "McKellen displays his usual astonishing repertoire of gesture and movement; he begins with hand tremors... proceeds to spastic arms and rubbery hands, totters and teeters, grunts, gapes and squints, until he is as irritating as any fractious, befuddled, sclerotic old bugger you've ever met".

In a gesture of astonishing openness, Giulio Regeni's grieving friends and relatives handed over their phones and laptops to the Italian police.

We want Italy, which has an extraordinary, dizzying, astonishing past," he says, gesturing at the frescoed walls, "to have a future also".

The gesture was particularly astonishing because Mr. Kono's father, Yohei Kono, is Japan's foreign minister -- and a leading candidate to become the next prime minister.

He sent the only copy of his masterwork, "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" to his publisher by post, a gesture which suggests an astonishing degree of trust in a government monopoly.

They gave an astonishing display of rope swinging, altercations, gestures of what looked like reassurance, toilet breaks and what my daughter was certain was playing trains (but may well result in a few baby chimps).

His artistry, however, is as astonishing as ever, fusing sound, sense and gesture in an uncompromising quest for veracity.

"Gesture" is the most popular word among practitioners of high puppet arts, and it is the honing of gesture into a series of astonishing rhythms that makes for the success of this work.