Sentence examples for practical gestures from inspiring English sources

Amplified by accessories like pearl-tipped metal collars that mimic headphones, these practical gestures are hard to see.

That these designers are women may explain why practical gestures like fluid lines and longer lengths were handled in sophisticated ways.

All are simple, well-intentioned and often practical gestures, but they do not shed a ray of light on what really happened here.

It's a kind and practical gesture, but what they really need are shelters from sexual violence, and adequate policing.

The FT believes these are "secondary" issues and concludes: "What is now needed is a practical gesture of goodwill to break the deadlock and avoid a sweeping press law".

Anna can offer Andrei only hot-water "tea", and when they share a bed it is a practical gesture: the two huddle close, with Kolya between them, to keep warm and to stay alive.

Last year, when well-wishers brought piles of shoes to Budapest train station, it was more than just a practical gesture in the face of Europe's greatest refugee crisis since the second world war.

It would be a very sensible, pragmatic and practical gesture from the board.

This was not only a practical gesture, but a symbolic one as well, demonstrating to the world that America was serious about conserving energy, and that conservation does, indeed, begin at home.

"People were greeted at the gates of the cemetery and given pledge cards for the local Democratic party - a practical gesture, yet not one that felt like the call I wanted to respond to most that moment," wrote Masturzo.

For him, it was a practical and loving gesture.