Sentence examples for intimidating gesture from inspiring English sources

Chen Guangfu, the brother, said their home village remained under constant watch by teams of guards based at its main entrance and that last week a family planning official visited a school looking for his 5-year-old grandson — Chen Kegui's son — in what he took to be an intimidating gesture.

This isn't just an intimidating gesture; it helps identify the new recruits, who are called dukhi, or "ghosts".

Rudeness also can include yelling, offensive language, making threats, intimidating gestures like pointing or even shoving.[14].[14]

I have experienced forms of workplace bullying where male colleagues have used aggressive and intimidating language, gestures and actively interfered in my work and employed various forms of sabotage to prevent me completing programmes of work I had championed over many years.

For his Clinton impression, Hartman copied the president's "post-nasal drip" and the "slight scratchiness" in his voice, as well as his open, "less intimidating" hand gestures.

In its safe space policy, the Edinburgh University Students Associationn explains what hand gestures are and are not offensive, and says: "Gestures indicating agreement are permissible, if these gestures are generally understood and not used in an intimidating manner... Applause is acceptable when a motion is passed only, not if a motion fails to pass.

Consider it: make-up so dramatic it starts to look like parody, arch comments and lip curls, practised feminine hand gestures, a personality so large and loud that it becomes intimidating.

Even intimidating.

Pretty intimidating.

Why intimidating?

'Scary, intimidating.