Sentence examples for brutal gesture from inspiring English sources

He threw the gun down at his father'sfeet in a brutal gesture of contempt, held his father's gaze, andwiped his hands so roughly together that they made a sound likeclapping.

His glowering sense of survival in the Los Angeles street wars is flavoured with gruff self-satisfaction and self-pity, and he could well feel the need for one last brutal gesture of self-worth in mentoring or ethically deflowering some naive young rookie.

As I've discussed with my friends and family, this was a classic terrorist attack -- a brutal symbolic gesture aimed to change behavior.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's brutal regime in rare gestures towards his opponents has twice this year recognized the potential street power of his country's militant, street battle-hardened soccer fans.

Almost anywhere else, such a gathering would be considered a kind and natural — even routine — neighborly gesture after a brutal and senseless crime.

It's a magnanimous gesture given the overall brutal tone of this crucial House campaign.

The situation has gotten so dire, Germany has decided to offer asylum to some of these dissidents who are living in brutal conditions in Turkey, expressly "in a gesture of solidarity against human rights abuses by the Tehran regime".

Each time, the scene resets, picks itself up, and lines and gestures are repeated until another brutal or hilarious sabotage.

"Jahar Tsarnaev took them all away in the most brutal and painful way possible," she said, gesturing to easels holding large pictures of the four victims.

The typically mild-mannered Baesler took the bait and responded with a brutal stemwinder of a speech against Bunning, replete with outsized hand gestures and ugly facial contortions.

How did the DNA of these pioneering films mutate, for better and mostly worse, into the brutal pop entertainments of today — horror movies whose envelope pushing is an empty gesture instead of a cultural jolt?