Sentence examples for earnest gestures from inspiring English sources

From Blake's blazingly earnest gestures of hyperbole, Sendak was able to distill his own kind of moral seriousness, and also humor.

They then made the kind of simple, earnest gestures that give the Burmese democratic opposition its air of moral depth and political naïveté.

They're unafraid of the earnest gesture.

An earnest grief-type gesture (wrist to forehead) recurs, usually detached from any situation suggesting grief.

Greg was tall, plain-spoken, earnest, expressive in his gestures and deeply likable.

His fans found the gesture sweet and earnest.

The film's strategically vague title gestures toward a lofty, earnest desire so familiar and unobjectionable that it is scarcely recognizable as an ideology.

She can boil half a page of earnest crap down into a single gesture or just a look.

Like a lot of young jazz musicians in the last 10 years, he sounds torn between Keith Jarrett and Radiohead, and when he tilts away from jazz as we know it, it's toward big-gesture pop: a sweeping, earnest and melancholic music.

He had an earnest manner, his stance was square, his gestures simple.

Instead, he's an earnest and direct singer who wrings feeling from small vocal gestures and whose songwriting — he contributed to 9 of the 10 songs here — is graceful, with twists like small sighs.