Sentence examples for eloquent gesture from inspiring English sources

It seemed an eloquent gesture.

Viana made an eloquent gesture with his right hand, as if taking in his whole outfit.

Having read about a moonshiner who cut off a rival's testicles and sent them to him in a jar of moonshine, Bondurant bequeathed that eloquent gesture to his relatives.

"We want, with this eloquent gesture, to demonstrate our solidarity with nature and to bring beauty back to one of the most important parks in the country," Fatima Jardim, the minister of fisheries and environment, said at last week's ceremony.

Even when there is nothing to offer a patient, Folkman advises a simple but eloquent gesture: point out the window of the hospital room and say: "Do you see that building over there?

In an eloquent gesture, the Rizzoli staff had placed a photograph of the old Penn Station in the display window, along with a quote from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Is it not cruel to let our city die by degree, stripped of all her proud monuments, until there will be nothing left of all her history and beauty to inspire our children?

Its origins are in storytelling, and Ms. Shivalingappa's eloquent gestures and mobile face are wonderfully expressive tools for her art.

She recalls her memories through eloquent gestures and facial expressions, but they're played out in a miniature theatre that springs up around her, with a cast of toy characters and tiny figurines.

One moment I am entranced by a simple, eloquent Creed gesture, the next I am wondering if this is not all a bit … pretentious?

"I never enjoyed speaking to my parents on the phone, and we spent far too much time speaking on the phone rather than speaking to each other, because of just the way the situation was," Harry says, with another eloquent, empty gesture of the hands.

Bruce and Alison Bechdel exchange hints about their sexualities by exchanging memoirs: the father gives the daughter Earthly Paradise, an autobiographical collection of the writings of Colette; shortly afterwards, in what Alison Bechdel describes as "an eloquent unconscious gesture", she leaves a library copy of Kate Millett's memoir Flying for him.