But there was no preening confidence about Yohan Blake, no bold assertion, no outrageous gesture.
Her rebelliousness has been at least as evident in her formal experimentation over the years as in that one outrageous gesture".She set herself up a project early on, which was to explore materials, whether metal or polyurethane or rubber or glitter, and to test the boundaries of abstract sculpture," Ms. Hoptman said".She's been doing that till now".
With his signature comb-over, short temper and penchant for the outrageous gesture, he's a walking media magnet.
They invent outrageous, impossible, complicated gestures.
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said on Wednesday that burning Korans would be a "repugnant" sign of disrespect, and the Vatican said it would be an "outrageous and grave gesture".
No gesture was too outrageous.
Literature and revolution were joined in an explosion of nihilistic gesture, black humour, and outrageous erotic transgression, engendering new forms of perception and expression.
But mainly he drew from "Blunderbuss" (Columbia), his first proper solo album, crowded with songs of misused trust and outrageous hunger, and full of small, shivery gestures that approximate the rough feel of spontaneity.
God gifted him with a keen and subtle intellect, an uncommon rhetorical skill, a knack for the dramatic gesture, a sharp wit and an outrageous sense of humor, all of which he used in the service of preaching.
America's outrageous gun laws demand more than hastily agreed upon gestures of sympathy for the victims of the commerce they support.
