Sentence examples for extreme gesture from inspiring English sources
Another, Wang Siren, starved himself to death in an extreme gesture of passive resistance.
The next (and because of funding difficulties, the last) festival in 1993 had an even deeper impact: "It was coming off the LA uprising where people set their own city on fire," he says, "That's a very extreme gesture and needs to be responded to seriously, and the politicians were not capable of that.
Yes, Cunningham saw everyone, but in Sherman's case he also made the extreme gesture of seeing and capturing her over and over, exposing aspects of who she really was with every frame, until he had created a prismatic artifact that was impossible to dismiss.
We don't like extreme gestures in small spaces".
Their extreme gestures suggest that they are fighting or fleeing invisible protagonists.
Leonskaja conveyed the work's enormous dynamic range and extreme gestures, calling on a virtuoso technique to summon them up.
It comes as a shock to realize that Lawrence is as stylized as Nadelman — so stylized, in fact, that the outstretched arms and bowed heads of his figures bring to mind the extreme gestures of the choreography of Martha Graham.
Such exaggeration of emotion, such extreme gestures – and yet, at a second glance, the two incidents could have been scripted for multiplexes: this is the ideal template for modern love, everyone.
Mr. Miller's playing is a kind of perfection of the traditional postwar jazz language, and hearing it alone makes the point even stronger; there are no extreme gestures in dynamics, arrangement or repertory.
There are no extreme gestures of the kind to be found in "For Philip Guston," where the players obsess for 25 minutes on a tiny chromatic segment, then burst across the entire range of the keyboard in pianissimo C major.
Ms. Jolie may be susceptible to extreme gestures (it was only a few years ago that she wore a vial of her husband's blood around her neck and a tattoo of his name on her arm and elsewhere), but her current obsession is a lasting fancy that is impossible to fault.
