Sentence examples for savage gesture from inspiring English sources
NED (with a savage gesture): Shut up!
Perhaps one should read it, though, not as the kind of Judas-like betrayal that Arbus was often accused of but as a savage gesture of poetic justice, as blind to propriety as was the art of the woman it lays bare, and as the final payment, by an honorable executor, of her mother's outstanding debt — a debt of self-revelation — to her subjects.
The savage crackle of those first hexing gestures; the keening, ducking circle of her upper body and head at 0.20 (made all the more strange by the mask she wears); the slow, spooky opening of her knees at 0.29.
FoLook Chris Godfrey on Twitter.
In the room where St. Francis stripped off his clothes to dedicate his life to Christ, living in poverty, the pope used similar warm gestures addressing a group of poor people, challenged "by this savage world".
The gesture was necessary, he said, to show reciprocity, to underscore that the common Armenian biases against Kurds — as bloodthirsty savages — could also be relinquished.
3) "The Savage Detectives".
LILY SAVAGE Fairfield, Conn.
