Sentence examples for ominous gesture from inspiring English sources

Any innocent motion -- taking out his identification or groping for his apartment keys -- was instantly seen as an ominous gesture that required a deadly response.

As the show develops, it also reveals an expressionist tendency in Ms. Hills: she likes to turn her firmly made-up face to the audience during a particularly ominous gesture.

When the frisking officer finally appears, he rolls on a pair of latex gloves (a particularly ominous gesture, that) and leads me to a designated frisking area, which is in full sight of those passing through the security gate.

But you'll have to set aside any preconceptions about the Opus 28 Preludes: his assertive traversal is cast in dark hues and grand, ominous gestures.

It builds on the best qualities of the earlier disc, and broadens Mr. Andsnes's Mozartean palette as his readings move briskly from the elegant cheerfulness of the G major Concerto (No. 17) to the more ominous, grandly theatrical gestures of the almost operatic Concerto in D minor (No. 20).

Armstrong told off Simeoni and made an ominous "zip the lips" gesture to television cameras, later saying he stopped Simeoni's bid to win because it was "in the interest of the peloton".

At the outset, a beautiful girl has every reason to be happy, but the portly, courtly Englishman who gives her the job of her dreams turns out to have a dark side; even his simplest gestures have ominous undertones.

"An Ant," the fourth section, depicted that tiny creature with scurrying sounds and solemn gestures, while the ominous whirlwind of "Hurricane" concluded the suite with dramatic intensity.