Sentence examples for protective hands from inspiring English sources

In the end "back-studio pictures" like "A Star Is Born," he wrote, "flounced offstage with protective hands over the greatest of its mysteries".

Carol, a bewildered student, comes to her professor, John, confessing her inability to cope with her course: responding to her vulnerability, he turns his attention upon her and even places protective hands on her shoulders.

Kassman put a protective hand on this collection.

His partner places a protective hand on his arm.

She placed a protective hand on its mighty trunk.

We scrambled for cover; Saleh kept a protective hand on me as we ran.

Rabbi Michael Melchior, an Israeli cabinet minister, walked the pope to the wall with a protective hand ready to steady his gait.

Then the party continues on the museum's curving walkways, as waiters flit by, their protective hand-guards covering trays of macarons destined for the Dior-clad partygoers.

Over and over again today, Bahamians attributed their good fortune to their strong religious beliefs and an invisible protective hand that they say looks after all of them.

I never know what he's thinking.' " "Still picking, dear?" the waitress asked, and Weiner put a protective hand over the flattened chicken.

Howard was solicitous of his wife's wellbeing, swapping knowing looks, a protective hand to her shoulder as he opened doors for her.