Sentence examples for gesture by which from inspiring English sources

The new admissions process is, as one faculty member put it to me, "a classic Leon gesture," by which he meant idealistic, expeditiously enacted, showmanly, and absolutely earnest in spirit.

For example, Hartley offers a fascinating, detailed account of how the spontaneous gesture by which a frightened, abused child raises his hand to ward off a blow becomes, through a series of such transferences, the blow the abusing adult directs in anger at a helpless child (OM 1, prop. 97).

He demonstrated the vigorous hip-twisting gesture by which Kiwis hunt for clams.

The comments by Mr. Bush, who allied himself strongly with social conservatives in the primaries, are part of a pattern of statements, symbols and gestures by which he seems to be trying to inch back toward the center of the political spectrum.

The collaboration yielded a performance at Firehouse 12 — where the collective has appeared every year since — and inspired Mr. Gorry to incorporate Mr. Morris's system, a set of hand gestures by which groups create music on the spot, into his workshops and shows.

But the gesture by Virginia, which elected the nation's first black governor in 1989, did not come easily.

This is a small gesture by UNICEF, which was made possible with the support of families and citizens of Serbia who have donated money to UNICEF".

They are usually quite easy to spot, one side is normally surrounding the referee pointing to their hands or indicating with a fisherman's gesture the amount by which an offending player was offside/outside the area.

Conventionally, the immanence of the artist is what we recognize as the perceptible hand of the artist in the art: the style, sensibility, brushwork, aura, gesture and signature by which we identify the work's author.

This self-effacement is combined with the gesture of unroofed ambition by which the building claims the endlessness of the sky itself.

These designs typify what another architect calls "the view from 30,000ft", by which glamorous gesture triumphs over detail.