As he looked at it, the lady straightened up from her flowers, walked to the iron gate, and with the prettiest gesture of invitation opened it.
("Pretty hostile gesture!") People who did business with her later in life also recall feeling stung.
Most importantly, they kiss, a pretty innocuous gesture that has been banned from blockbusters.
Fehr said the union proposal was designed to address the financial problems experienced by a half dozen or so struggling clubs and was "a pretty substantial gesture" in the owners' direction.
I thought store credit was a pretty nice gesture, considering you didn't even have a receipt but we have laws here, Mr. Calvin.
I doubt they're going to convert many (if any) of the audience, but let's be honest, there are probably a lot of Pres sitting around so it's a pretty microscopic gesture in terms of cost, while the benefit is a few hundred influential people have a hands-on experience with their flagship OS.
Just make sure he likes it -- it's a pretty intimate gesture, and not every guy likes to have his hair touched.
Scholars of the avant-garde warn darkly that we are suffused, in the twenty-tens, in a period style enamored with pretty rhetorical gestures, self-indulgent egotism, self-expressive melodrama, and bourgeois epiphanies.
A ballet dancer is usually predisposed to make a gesture pretty.
"It's pretty," he said, gesturing at the backdrop of sailboats in the harbor.
