Sentence examples for dismissive gestures from inspiring English sources

You really would, to look at the eyes, the raptor face, the dismissive gestures of her hand trailing cigarette smoke.

Playing the detached and disinterested party is a key part to the success of many comebacks; show your lack of being insulted by smiling, using dismissive gestures, keeping the tone of your voice calm, and thinking all the time of deflecting rather than engaging your opponent.

She can raise one arm in a dismissive gesture.

She made the same dismissive gesture about the dishwasher.

As they walk on, Nigel makes a limp-wristed dismissive gesture.

"Fine," the youth replies with a dismissive gesture, "just leave it on the table".

It was impossible to ignore the dismissive gesture that Hazard made towards Mourinho as he departed.

"If I make other people feel good, I feel good!" He added, "I literally, mentally, went like" — he paused, brushing his hands together in a dismissive gesture — "it's over with!

"I am impressed by people who don't just throw away in a grand dismissive gesture the past but include it in the present — not as a reference but as a motor for change".

The singer, who later claimed he thought she had directed a "dismissive gesture" at him, also hammered on the pilot's cockpit door as he was trying to land the plane.

As we talked, 'Oh, look' attached itself to almost every phrase as if to shrug it away, and she habitually ran out of steam, her sentences drifting towards silence or a dismissive gesture.