Sentence examples for handclasp from inspiring English sources

We get that here, too, as we do in the prayerful handclasp of Bert Lahr, photographed in 1956, or in a shot of Bacon himself, fingers resting quizzically at the rim of his mouth.

Later, he received a handclasp and congratulations from Senator Lausche himself.

Unlike gold, which is sold for essentially the same price in financial markets around the world, diamonds have been sold mostly through bazaarlike areas like the Manhattan district and the Antwerp Diamond Bourse, which advertises that a "binding handclasp fixes price, delivery and conditions".

Carpenter became an Edwardian guru figure, famous for the strength of his handclasp and the penetration of his gaze.

Dr Oakley has been to a couple of McKenna's shows, and seen him use classic procedures such as the handclasp test (participants are told that they cannot separate their clasped hands) to pre-select the most susceptible.

It was not that their warm handclasp and beaming smiles at last April's lunch at the Banqueting Hall in Westminster were surprising.

The main door opened, the escort committee returned, and behind it was Bush — without his usual grin, but by no means so sombre that he didn't devote a few minutes, on the way to the lectern, to getting in his share of shoulder grabs and soulful handclasps and whispered intimacies.

Senator Young was receiving so many handclasps and congratulations that he failed to respond on his first roll call.

After a final round of polite handclasps, I was ferried to the president's office for a private meeting.

There was a constant procession of well-wishers and autograph-seekers, and he greeted most of them wordlessly, with faint smiles and loose handclasps.

The joyful handclasps, the deep, happy laughs, the big, smiling, trust-me eyes... though I angrily protest at his absurd overcharging, nothing can dampen the pleasure of a Neapolitan taxi driver with a newly arrived visitor in the back seat.