Sentence examples for potent gesture from inspiring English sources

For a country so identified with food shortages, it was a small but potent gesture.

It was a simple yet potent gesture, but one that China's own leaders have so far been unwilling to make.

But diplomats said the resolution was a potent gesture of political support for the United States even if it should it decide to act on its own.

And always there are the small, potent gestures for the arms that establish both formal pattern and dramatic nuance.

The delicately painted details, like the translucent tears streaming down several faces and the potent gestures of grief, convey a most poignant depiction of sorrow.

Jennifer Warren's "Chant de Paix," a duet danced to music by Jean Langlais, unspooled like a dream full of mysterious but potent small gestures.

The laconic eloquence of the minimal gesture, its potent lack of insincere rhetoric and overstatement, was apparent.

At the awakening, where she has no dancing, she was suddenly at her most potent, dismissing Carabosse with gestures that combined beauty with might.

Although Turnage plainly sympathizes with the desperate woman at the center of the circus, his satirical gestures are more potent than his serious ones.

Fifty-seven years later, that moment is potent proof that even the smallest gesture, seen through the right eyes, can change the world.

As doctors strain to find effective alternatives to addictive opioids, they need more than token gestures from Congress; they need potent solutions.