"obvious gestures" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe gestures that are easily understood or clearly visible to others. For example: - The speaker's obvious gestures during the presentation helped to convey their message more effectively. - Jane rolled her eyes in obvious gestures of frustration as she listened to her boss's long-winded instructions. - The actor's exaggerated and obvious gestures on stage made the audience burst into laughter. - The politician's obvious gestures of support towards the crowd won them over and secured their votes.
We have somehow lost our ability to move through the world with an aura of visible compassion, with obvious gestures and words of kindness for others.
The video is essentially a couple of different signers emotively pleading with the viewer not to crack one off, and because sign language isn't the most politically correct of dialects, they do this through all of the most obvious gestures that signify masturbation, married to a bunch of strange fuck-gurns.
The video is essentially a couple of different signers emotively pleading with the viewer not to crack one off, and because sign language isn't the most politically correct of dialects, they do this through all of the most obvious gestures that signify masturbation, married to a bunch of guys miming orgasms.
This is the way, Ms. Arbus underscores, that evil does its most effective work — in an offhand manner, not through the obvious gesture but while the mind is ostensibly occupied with other things.
Here and elsewhere, Mr. Gaines gave into clichés, punctuating words with too-obvious gestures.
The emotional intensity came from within the music rather than from obvious surface gestures.
Fomenko does not go in for such obvious dramatic gestures as Blokhin.
We also see one of the first blatantly obvious romantic gestures from Luke, setting us up for quite the love triangle down the road.
The best way to do so is with obvious, tangible gestures of affection.
Meanwhile, the American painter Kimberly Brooks suggested that Americans ditch their own ritual: "The handshake is an obvious vestigial gesture left over from a time when hands needed to be shown free of weapons," she wrote in The Huffington Post.
They've created a "super PAC" called Ready for Hillary, which is only slightly less obvious a gesture than constructing a giant neon sign reading "Run, Hillary, Run".
