Sentence examples for authentic gesture from inspiring English sources

I think that in lives of extreme innocence, untouched by sophistication, there may sometimes be this capacity for a bold, rash, authentic gesture, getting straight to the truth, while cleverer strategies only pussy-foot around it.

To satirize the myth of the authentic gesture, there are Abstract Expressionist-size, snowy-white canvases, each bearing a wide, brushy, diagonal swath of blue, a drippy blob of yellow and an explosive splatter of red.

If the public has become so immune to shock that only a dead shark in formaldehyde will awaken a brief spasm of outrage, then the artist must produce a dead shark in formaldehyde - this, at least, is an authentic gesture.

Kierkegaard's rejection of Regine Olsen's love is lauded for its expression of the need of giving one's own empirical life a definite, unambiguous form and thereby transforming it into absolute life in Kierkegaard's case, by attempting to perform an authentic gesture (1910c: 28).

+ Mike Fleming's sculpture whipped her hair, back and forth, to mark "the end of authentic gestures".

There's something uncanny about artist Mike Fleming's Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures).

Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures) from Mike Fleming on Vimeo.

Either way, we think Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures) is giving Willow Smith a run for her money. .