Sentence examples for challenging gesture from inspiring English sources

It is a challenging gesture from a president who appears set on laying out as stark a contrast as he can between where he would like to take the country and where the opposition would go.

These days he is challenging teammates who make mistakes and gesturing with exasperated waves of his hands on the sideline.

Questioning Paul Smith, the lawyer challenging Wisconsin's contorted district lines, Gorsuch made another pedantic gesture.

Rather than "challenging" the institution, this piece reaffirms the museum's self-image as courtesan and midwife to the supposedly radical gesture.

The traditional view of a predominant inferior parietal representation of gestures has been recently challenged by neuroimaging studies demonstrating that gesture production and discrimination may critically depend on inferior frontal lobe function.

The mayor's early Valentine's Day gesture was immediately challenged by two groups.

"These people were overworked and challenged, and it was a gesture, a way of saying thanks".

In a superb tragicomic set piece, Billy brings Sylvia home, and Christopher, the bullyboy, challenges her to convey with gesture what he can get across with speech: "How do you say... 'Her mind's... like a... plastic bag... flapping... out a car window'?" he asks, speaking slowly and clearly, so that there can be no mistaking him.

This controversial political gesture seeks to challenge certain laws put in place to ensure that votes remain secret.

It is also possible that the difference in nationality between participant groups was a confounding factor, but if this were the case it would challenge the Interface Hypothesis in which gesture reflects purely linguistic factors, such as clause structure.

In court, Ferdinand was challenged over words he used with the gesture.