Sentence examples for imperious gesture from inspiring English sources

The imperious gesture made the meeting dynamic.

The signal moment in any of her shows is the Stare, a frozen taking-in of the adulation: it's her ingenious way of translating awestruck humility into empowered solidarity, but also a chillingly imperious gesture.

Ms. Anderson sits straight and looks imperious, gesturing with a stylized unfolding of one arm.

Mrs. Heinz Kerry's flash of temper on the eve of the Democratic convention jibed with other imperious gestures during the campaign, including the moment she reached across John and Elizabeth Edwards to remove a thumb from the mouth of the couple's young son, Jack.

She has the voice; a sound that steers clear of the trends above; and a commanding presence, expressed via a lot of imperious flamenco gestures.

He stares about him with tight-chested, gut-twisting anguish, his gestures imperious but vacant, his balletic line brutally distorted.

Every gesture is imperious and grand: of course they obey.

His lower leg threatens to become detached at the knee while revolving during ronds de jambe en l'air when he dances at full speed, but he could also radiate imperious authority with a mere gesture (note how he extends his hand to Ms. Aldous in their wedding pas de deux).

By the time of "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" in spring 1984, he'd be more legible – he'd started sporting NHS specs and hearing aid by then – but when I first caught sight of him, his semi-co-ordinated assemblage of gestures, at once vulnerable and imperious, was a revelation.

Jessica Calvello has reincarnated her at the Triad Theater, complete with sweeping gestures, a lofty stare and an imperious rendering of "I vant to be alone".

Her gestures are compact, nimble and persuasive, rather than imperious.