Sentence examples for forceful gesture from inspiring English sources

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With every forceful gesture and glaring look, Ms. Collette portrays Maggie as an indefatigable woman of heart and sinew who, through sheer determination, holds off chaos.

Mr. Marchionne's response — an unusually forceful gesture from the chief executive of a major American corporation a week before Election Day — came as the politics of the auto bailout took center stage in the presidential campaign.

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In Canova's tomb of Pope Clement XIV (1784 87; SS. Apostoli, Rome), the Pope, seated on a throne above a sarcophagus, is treated in a dramatically realistic style with hand raised in a forceful gesture reminiscent of papal tombs of the 17th century.

Simpson's forceful gesture came after an extended diatribe against Social Security, which he said is a "Ponzi" scheme, "not a retirement program".

At times, you try body language signals, the glazed look, the long yawn, or some other forceful gesture, like repeatedly looking at your wristwatch, that might signal boredom or disinterest.

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Not only did Mr. Good fill his choreography with forceful gestures, but he also emphasized the face and made dancers' mouths open, as if crying out.

Works by Al Held and Frank Stella, both of whom felt compelled to impose geometrical regularity on the forceful gestures of Abstract Expressionism to find their own mature voices, suggest as much, as does that of Valerie Jaudon, whose art was in turn influenced by Mr. Stella's.

A beginning murmur of modest promises; shrugged evasive responses to awkward questions; emphatic responses to sympathetic questions, signalled by forceful gestures; the whole decorated by self-deprecating family humor — in this case, Dad jokes and husband jokes on the Obama model, clearly indicated by bright, sheepish gestures toward the candidate's spouse.

We rarely tell our friends with emphatic gestures and forceful emotional that we simply, "didn't enjoy" a film, because such phrasing suggests the fault lies with us.

Force Touch, as it is known on the Apple Watch, can detect a more forceful touch gesture and is used as a right click-like analogue.

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