Sentence examples for formal gesture from inspiring English sources

He sees me looking over and raises his arm in a formal gesture of farewell.

Storyboard's goal with "Magna Carta Story," he said, was to "translate Jay's music into slang gesture and into formal gesture".

How, though, are they to tell the formal gesture, the attitude, from the native impulse of the heart?

He stood and seemed to bow as she approached the table, a fairly formal gesture for a place that specialized in artisanal scrapple.

Staged in the round in Paines Plough's portable Roundabout auditorium, the formal gesture of the show is deliberately democratic, while its message for those struggling with depression is unashamedly heartfelt.

Today the name Gatsby is a shorthand for the echoes of the Jazz Age that are most seductive — an elegant man at a party, his party, "the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell". It is in the name of hundreds of blogs, businesses, and a popular line of male grooming products.

None produce the sublime power that architecture is capable of by communicating emotion through formal gestures.

Yet they bowed to each other in formal gestures of courtship.

Much of the work is made up of small, light formal gestures, unemphatic in tone and socially engaged, though in an unperturbed way that accommodates friendliness and wit.

Almost throughout, it's a thing of small, light formal gestures, unemphatic in tone and socially engaged, though in an unperturbed way that accommodates friendliness and wit.

A confectioner with a cynic's eye for hidden melancholy, Pollet locates the aching tenderness beneath formal gestures and hints at the bitterness and toil that patrons and clients alike seek to submerge in a few moments of programmed ecstasy.