Sentence examples for gesture about from inspiring English sources

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To me it was a gesture about puncturing the spectacle.

She made the same dismissive gesture about the dishwasher.

Instead he decided to make a different kind of gesture about Italy's greatest export, its hospitality.

More than ever, in this craft-fixated era, what's ordered in a restaurant, sent as a gift or served at a cocktail party acts as a subtle gesture about one's level of culinary sophistication.

In the early nineties, rappers tried to placate moralists by trotting out set pieces about pitiable crackheads, a gesture about as effective as hanging a "No Smoking" sign outside an office building.

In Australia Queensland's government has been criticised for authorising the killing of 621 sharks – a futile gesture about being seen to be doing something after shark attacks on surfers.

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They won't be aware that you've done so, but later on they'll start to talk spontaneously about the ideas you've gestured about earlier.

It's a gesture perhaps about symbolism as much as reality.

For practically anyone else, invoking presidential families might seem grandiose, but for Mr. McCartney's set, the gesture was about right.

Ari says the Bridge programme gave BetterDoctor "a few tens of thousands of dollars" but believes the gesture was about far more than money.

Have you ever wondered, while watching Michel Fokine's "Les Sylphides," what those dainty, fingery, seeming-to-listen or seeming-to-whisper hand gestures are about?

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