Sentence examples for rhetorical gestures from inspiring English sources

It taps into his natural character strengths and practiced rhetorical gestures.

Though they make such rhetorical gestures, this is not the book the Leveretts have written.

"Europe" and "European values" seem, even as rhetorical gestures, entirely hollow.

These are not quite jokes, but nor are they saddled with dramatic meaning; they are light, rhetorical gestures toward the dark.

The assertively public poems continue, but they're rarely the most memorable work in the collections (and indeed, often suffer from failed rhetorical gestures).

One of the most eloquent of Levi's rhetorical gestures is the way he moves between volume and silence, appearance and disappearance, life and death.

There is little sham in French life, but a lot of show, a lot of rhetorical gesturing.

That was a rhetorical gesture — a powerful one, at the time, if soon turned facile by repetition.

The tombs of Bernini are magnificent spectacles in which symbolic figures, clothed in sweeping draperies, with rhetorical gesture and expressive features, share in some emotional experience, theatrically depicted.

Quoted in the program notes, Mr. Langrée cited "the structural complexity, the eloquence of rhetorical gesture and the economy of orchestral colors" common to the music of both composers.

To make a grand rhetorical gesture, encompassing all human injustice when one particular example seems inconveniently egregious, has become a museum ritual, a political tic.