Sentence examples for daring gesture from inspiring English sources

This is an aggressively daring gesture in the direction of the anxiety of influence.

Yet, for its time, Josephine's "lesbian" kiss with a startled Sugar was a daring gesture.

With "The Amber Spyglass," the whole trilogy can be seen as a daring gesture reinterpreting that poem.

Prodded by Kabanicha, Katya reveals that Boris is her accomplice, whereupon, in a daring gesture, Wieler and Morabito have Katya rush to Boris and embrace him in passionate lovemaking.

The government in Khartoum had been negotiating with Abdul Wahid, head of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA), a separate rebel group in Darfur, so JEM may have felt it was being sidelined.But for Khalil Ibrahim, JEM's leader, the attack was more than just a daring gesture.

Adorno, in his essay on late Beethoven, pointed out that some of the composer's most daring gestures take the form not of outlandish harmonies but of familiar decorative formulas — clichés, almost — that have been removed from their customary contexts and are strewn about as fragments.

Although Cain acknowledges the long and storied history of painting, acknowledging the importance of small but daring gestures by artists like Richard Tuttle and Elizabeth Murray, she also takes pleasure in shaking things up a bit, and watching the ramifications rattle off accordingly.

A Knoxian gesture, daring in its high discretion.