It eliminates extraneous gesture or expression and any suggestion of narrative.
Mr. Mosley, a teacher at the Alvin Ailey school, makes dances that are comfortably rooted in the jazz and modern-dance idioms, though he has a fondness for the occasional extraneous-looking gesture or move.
It's ultimately a pointless gesture, extraneous to gameplay needs, just a nice bit of animation.
From the perspective of Mayer's cognitive theory of multi-media learning (e.g., Mayer, 2014), the redundant gestures may have evoked extraneous processing without contributing relevant, new information.
These findings suggest that the combination of observing and making gestures may have imposed extraneous cognitive load on the lower ability children, which they could not accommodate together with the relatively high intrinsic load imposed by the learning task.
Each step, every gesture looks essential, stripped of extraneous nuance, and the Wuppertal ensemble danced on Wednesday night with riveting purity of intention and sculptural clarity.
Alternatively, the greater redundancy between the information expressed in speech and in gestures to the equations may have evoked detrimental, extraneous processing, as suggested by Mayer's redundancy principle.
Finally, I thought as I read along, point by point, someone is skipping the ritual gestures and just calling a goon a goon, without the extraneous compliments or the references to the more meaningful enemies on the left.
And while the hand gestures provide vivid spots of color in a creamily flowing whole, the gestures often look extraneous.
