Sentence examples for slight gesture from inspiring English sources

Maybe — though I can hardly believe this — she wanted to make some slight gesture of friendship or acceptance toward the sister-in-law, whom, as far as I know, she had never met.

Then I walk off and they stay on this Anne Marie, and with a slight gesture to her mouth, and a cloud across her eye, an entire character and all her thoughts about Lillian Hellman became apparent, and I went, "Holy shit!" Me and my partner were casting for Coming Home, and I went right to the phone and woke him up, I said, "Bruce [Gilbert], it's really a weird name, Meryl Streep.

In this one slight gesture, Sherman brilliantly conflates the iconography of classical beauty with the baser instincts of the burlesque.

When a woman has chosen her lover from those competing, she will signal with a slight gesture of her hand.

There have been gains, with the District's budget autonomy votes and Obama's ever so slight gesture of a fancy new license plate (#notaxworep), but the big wins are still the activists like Sam Jewler and Nate Bennett-Fleming.

At Lisa Cooley, slight gestures in various mediums by Alice Channer, Jamie Isenstein and J. Parker Valentine add up to something quite substantial.

He uses slight gestures — the handling of a book, a glance into the dark — to great effect.

Adorno, whose post-doctoral thesis was published the day Hitler took power, hesitated to break from Germany, occasionally making slight gestures of accommodation with the regime.

Kitty never lets her vocabulary depart from ironic impersonality, but Ms. Lichter, with slight gestures and glances, lets you feel her fear.

The child well understood the instructions given, establishing communication primarily with the use of non-verbal components (visual contact, facial expression, and slight gesturing).

The show is a scatter of slight gestures and variably clever appropriations from the prolific and often provocative Los Angeles-based artist.