Sentence examples for rebellious gesture from inspiring English sources
Her eyes are closed, her hand is on her hip in a jaunty, rebellious gesture.
He joined the Marine Corps Reserve "as a rebellious gesture". The experience taught him the value of discipline, training and routine.
Before long the pageant takes over the story, and Will's rebellious gesture against conformity becomes just another way that girls of any size can assert their worth.
The initial exhilaration of the rebellious gesture, though, gives way to a real sadness: The film is full of scenes in which none of the characters can get anything that they want, let alone need.
When they're not too busy keeping the punk flame burning with American Idiot The Musical ("gorgeously wrought"—New York Times), Green Day like to show their hearts are still in the right place with a rebellious gesture, such as flying to Cleveland to toss three original members of Guns N' Roses' salad at a $25,000-a-table 25,000-a-table 25,000-a-tables.
As with all rebellious gestures, the I.C.A. derives its meaning from the very conventions it rejects.
"If anybody needs a champion today," he once said, "it is the artist who shuns rebellious gestures".
Against this driven backdrop, solos appear like rebellious gestures of freedom, with classically shaped phrases pierced by studs of shiningly disruptive detail, or blurred into sluttishness by gestures of languid sensuality.
"Sometimes I was rebellious.
