Sentence examples for false gesture from inspiring English sources

Deborah Hoffman managed brilliance without a false gesture; take away the glamour of the instrument and one found a true musician at work.

An anthropologist recently returned from the Amazon rain forest, Marie is a promiscuous, self-pitying beauty who cannot commit to anyone, and Ms. Cotillard, an actress who seems incapable of making a false gesture, doesn't strain to make her likable.

Playing the solos of Beethoven's C-minor Piano Concerto, Mr. Haefliger was the picture of rectitude: not a false gesture, not an exaggerated sigh, not a single attention-getting distortion of line.

Over two hours one heard no false gestures, miscalculated pauses or overplayed accents.

"Thus it was the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures, and above all, the false tones and cadences of the voice, which rang false...the most glaring, even grotesque, incongruities and improprieties that my aphasic patients responded to...".

The ugliness of the lovelock lies not in the locks themselves but in the false dramatic gesture that put them there - the key thrown into the water.

It is, Rancière suggests, a solitary protest against worn-out language and false populist gestures, intended for the "greatness of a crowd to come".

Four years ago, as I rode into Beijing for the first time, the poplar trees along the airport expressway struck me as a false and futile gesture.

In a gesture of false economy, Gordon Brown closed the Foreign Office language school in 2007, though it was reopened four years later.

Although the symphony contains no false note or unlovely gesture, perceiving its idiosyncratic structure and personal logic can initially be daunting.

When, in a gesture of false sympathy, he holds out his hand, Ding, who gets around in "a 1960s black and obstinate, clunky Grand Defense bicycle," notes its "softness... like dough".