Sentence examples for gesture of death from inspiring English sources

Bridget M. Rohde, an assistant United States attorney, argued that Mr. Agnello should not be freed on bail because after his release on the state indictment, he threatened a government witness by making "an Italian gesture of death" -- a hand held sideways with the index finger and pinky extended like horns.

In response, Rachel decided to document the final years of her grandmother Barbara's life in Texas with images that she says were "made during moments of conversation, gesture, and experiences of death".

What do all these gestures mean, when chants of "death to America" in Iran have not stopped?

The country's top two law-enforcement officials resigned in a gesture of responsibility for the death of a murder suspect who was reportedly beaten to death while under investigation.

It is almost a gesture of contempt to the face of death.

He played up to that, making a careless, and prescient, throat-slitting gesture when England drew the group of death at the 2014 World Cup, issuing a bold prediction about England winning the 2022 finals, picking up Bernstein's baton in castigating Sepp Blatter and Fifa, and taking on a clutch of vested interests in an attempt to improve the flow of players to the England team.

Even so, rather than a departure from his sinister worldview, the painting of one man tending to another was a gesture of gratitude after deliverance from death (5 ).

But the scale of death was such that scattered local gestures no longer sufficed.

The HT is often followed by other signature gestures, such as "wild arms" and "terrifying low voice of death".

McConnell's father had purchased the piece of clothing as a small gesture following the death of Kathryn's own mother.

In a further gesture of defiance, cartel assassins were issuing death threats over the police force's own radio frequency, and the cartel seemed to be getting inside information about police operations.