Sentence examples similar to defying gesture from inspiring English sources

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As Helms shuffles past to vote, he pats Thurmond's shoulder, then pumps his right fist skyward in an age-defying gesture of encouragement and solidarity.

Their sense of the grand gesture frequently defied good sense.

By defying convention.

Iran keeps defying the West.

She went on, defying exhaustion.

Repentance from defying the almighty.

Sick of defying gravity?

Hal 9000 defying human orders?

There is so much of it, and it looks so heavy (my own hair weighed me down like a lead blanket) that her gesture seems to defy the gravity that her form conveys. Balthus was, when we met, the director of the French Academy in Rome, which is housed in the sixteenth-century Villa Medici, on the Pincian Hill, above the Spanish Steps.

But what they should know is that what Roberts may be doing is lining up an even grander gesture, a double-switch that will defy expectations yet again.

And their widows, either as a gesture of loyalty or because they genuinely believe that this is the last bit of protection that they have left from their late spouse, can't bear to defy them.

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