Sentence examples for emphatic gestures from inspiring English sources

He shouted, whispered and punctuated his arguments with emphatic gestures.

The message was one of several unusually emphatic gestures today by leading American Jewish groups.

Rysbrack worked in a classical, sometimes eclectic manner, avoiding emphatic gestures, exaggerated asymmetry, and extremes of illusionism.

But on the podium, though he needed a stool for support, he led the work with brusque, emphatic gestures.

The deep shadows, emphatic gestures, and heavy drapery patterns work together to create an arresting and convincing sense of papal power.

As he spoke again of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, his eyes flashed and he punctuated his speech with emphatic gestures.

The typical listener, then, who is waiting for some grand, emphatic gesture from the lead vocalist, waits in vain.

Seven years ago, a drunken woman made a dramatic emphatic gesture in a Manhattan cab that sent one of my vintage faux gold-and-turquoise Schiaparelli clip-on earrings flying somewhere into the back seat's nether regions.

Some of Smith's colleagues suspect he's the only person who would stand up the leadership on the plebiscite but who knows, and it's an emphatic gesture nonetheless.

You can see it in the emphatic gesture of benediction to Belinda (2.40), drawn so fiercely tight against the music, as the soprano sings "May my troubles cause no wrongs," and also in the slowing down of that gesture which, along with its downwards trajectory, generates a moment of shocking, near-erotic intimacy between the two women.

He has a loose but authoritative approach to propulsion, along with an almost scary conviction in the power of a single emphatic gesture: the thwack of a mallet on a floor tom, the washy impact of a full-tilt cymbal crash.