Sentence examples for popular gesture from inspiring English sources

And despite the drift, some ministers, notably the environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, have an eye for the popular gesture.

Our mayor may have no strategic vision for the city, but he has a talent for the popular gesture – and Routemaster II is one.

Moving mainly between the 1970s and the present day, it marshals a wild cast of radical thespians and would-be revolutionaries, urban bombers and Islamists, kidnappers and spies, bankers and philistine patrons of the arts, in a sometimes farcical plot to blow up an Amsterdam bank – a "popular gesture" in the teeth of bankers' bonuses.

Even the popular gestures recalled the fifties — bebop jazz and early rock and roll.

He uses popular gestures and expressions to appear like a friend among friends.

Even the popular gestures recalled the fifties bebop jazz and early rock and roll.

In his research, the most popular gestures turned out to be the ones that feel most intuitive.

St Francis of Assisi, whose name Pope Francis has adopted, was a master of simple, powerful popular gestures: he invented the Christmas crib and reputedly preached a sermon to the birds.

Digital scrapbook Ember from RealMac Software, makers of the popular, gesture-based to-do list app Clear, has made its way to iOS today, complementing the previous launched Ember for Mac app with iCloud sync, and a number of advanced options for organizing your photo collections.

However, for the user's convenience, a few popular gestures that have been widely adopted by multi-touch devices (such as the iPhone) have been incorporated into the iPCA-CE interface.

The subversiveness of daily life that Certeau describes so beautifully, the spontaneous rewriting of dominant codes by popular gestures and practices, has always been the background and the refuge of resistance.