Sentence examples for makes a gesture of from inspiring English sources

He makes a gesture of helplessness.

When asked to respond, Mr. Westergren makes a gesture of banging his head on a table.

I disappeared up here," [he makes a gesture of his head floating above him] and I was looking down, thinking, 'Oh fuck, there's no way out of this.

At the story's end, the wearied hero bids farewell, in a confusing speech of Yeatsian prophecy and horror, involving gold and slaves and buzzards and a planter who "makes a gesture of abundance with his riding whip".

In the end, when the tragic consequences of Isbell and Cassada's recklessness have played themselves out, Cassada makes a gesture of heroic self-sacrifice that neither Isbell nor Dunning allow themselves to appreciate, especially Dunning, whose mind is on the official inquiry that might destroy his chances of promotion.

The results often make fine street poetry: a girl's legs and worn saddle shoes (no socks) as she stands on a wet pavement seem to symbolize a hardscrabble life; the heavily tattooed arm of a youth extending across a backdrop of factory buildings makes a gesture of defiance against a flat existence in a down-at-the-heels town.

He refused even to make a gesture of sympathy.

And she made a gesture of her own.

Like Franck in church" — and he made a gesture of hands racing over an organ console.

Yet, almost in spite of themselves, the BBC have made a gesture of huge significance.

"Since the revolution, business — " he made a gesture of a plane crashing.