Sentence examples for habitual gesture from inspiring English sources

With a habitual gesture, Wolfe took out his solid cigar case.

Michele heaves a deep sigh and runs her hand over her hair in a habitual gesture.

After one heated exchange of words, Rob encircles her with his arms and asks, "Love me?" — evidently his habitual gesture of reconciliation.

"Do I remind you of that night?" "Not at all," his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now.

(Chinen) Celebrating Duke Ellington (Friday and Saturday) Jazz at Lincoln Center has periodically paused to pay tribute to its most profound influence, and so this repertory concert — featuring Wynton Marsalis and the organization's resident orchestra — can be pegged as both a habitual gesture and a crack team doing what it does best.

And their resistance to habitual gestures was fierce.

Rarely was there any sense of the group latching on to habitual gestures.

"There's a certain anxiety that comes with that sort of recognition," he says in French, making a habitual pensive gesture with his hands, as if carefully weighing two bags of flour.

The Knife, "Shaking the Habitual" (Rabid Records).

Ryness never misses a habitual fidget or gesture, like David Wright's ritual of wedging his bat in his armpit while adjusting his batting gloves.

As these gestures become habitual, they may become incorporated into automatic ways of expressing emotions in some contexts.