Sentence examples for excessive gesture from inspiring English sources

The misses in this collection were almost all a result of some excessive gesture: a too-wide collar or overshaped sleeve.

In late sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert, she summons a fractured, even violent emotional landscape without committing anything like an excessive gesture.

He loves excessive gestures, and the dialogue — written by Maddin and George Toles, and based, heaven knows how distantly, on a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro — hazes over with archaic yearning.

According to Dr. John Gottman, the small, intentional moments have more power than isolated, excessive gestures when it comes to creating and sustaining lasting love.

They're making excessive hand gestures and talking very loudly.

I cannot allow sign language, however, as I abhor excessive hand gestures without props.

My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy, and thus tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures.

Shifting blink rate, half shrugs, excessive grooming gestures, lip biting Weiner displayed copious non-verbal tells such as these.

A prominent Peruvian architect called it an "excessive and authoritarian gesture" lacking in "aesthetic, historic or symbolic" significance.

One prominent architect, Augusto Ortiz de Zevallos, called it an "excessive and authoritarian gesture" lacking in "aesthetic, historic or symbolic" significance.

"So not excessively excessive.