Sentence examples for decisive gesture from inspiring English sources

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But O'Connor swung the CFMEU delegation behind Shorten, a decisive gesture in the circumstances.

One feels the decisive gesture of the brush and a deft attentiveness to particularities of shape, light and shadow.

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She makes quick, decisive gestures.

An unusually physical performer, Mr. Campbell, who is backed by a pop quartet, illustrates songs with broad, decisive gestures that suggest an entertainer still bent on world conquest.

(At the showing, some editors could not see any virtue in Van Assche's baggy trousers and wondered, after Slimane's decisive gestures, at his puppyish sophistication).

We hear Dr. Taylor's absorbing account of her stroke from the 18 dancers, who narrate it in shifting groups, their physical vocabulary alternating between sharp, decisive gestures and flowing, expansive phrases suggesting the doctor's dislocated hemispheres.

I then found a point in the digit sequence that suggested an appropriately decisive concluding gesture for the piece.

Here, as in a later scene at the Battle of the Somme, Gray shows himself to be a master of the moral sketch: a burst of decisive visual gestures that give us the character of a person.

He had tough and decisive hand gestures, not always easy when you look as if you might fall off the stool any moment, as if under the influence of your ninth Corona.

While the Fijian authorities have ratified the UN convention against torture and pledged to end this cruel practice, this will remain an empty gesture until decisive action is taken".

Or is it more physical, like looking more confident and decisive based on posture, gestures, taking up more space?

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