Sentence examples for gestures designed to from inspiring English sources

Steinbrenner was famous among players for gestures designed to help them meet his outsized expectations.

Even gestures designed to bring Wartburg and Venusberg in closer alignment appear trite.

These are not displays of sullen adolescent aggression; they're moral gestures, designed to put the kuffar in their rightful place.

The paw on the knee, the staring down, the leaning — all these were gestures designed to convey to Josephine that Bluto was of a higher status in the household than she was.

It does seem that when commentators approve of gestures designed to communicate without words, to emphasise elements of character, or to move the spectator emotionally through performance – all facets which many of us would claim precisely as "good theatre" – they choose instead other words.

PS The Lib Dem announcement of free school meals for all five, six and seven-year-olds is evidence that ministers are determined to make a series of gestures designed to alleviate the squeeze many families are feeling.

They say the handshake originated as a gesture designed to prove that both participants were unarmed.

It was a satirical gesture, designed to protest against the political class blamed for miring Iceland in the financial crisis.

But pressure groups last night insisted that it would be more than an empty gesture designed to right old wrongs and to placate interest groups.

Mr Dion, a former environment minister, portrayed the deal as a non-partisan gesture designed to give the increasingly popular green agenda more prominence.

In a gesture designed to appear conciliatory, Nero invited his mother, Agrippina, to join him at a festival in Baiae, a resort town near present-day Naples.