Sentence examples for splayed hand from inspiring English sources

splayed hand pointing at floor The music in the main dining room is too loud.

I understood the impulse since by that time I was looking at the stage through the splayed hand I'd clamped over my eyes.

Too late, she realises that this huge figure has seen her, and his great, splayed hand reaches through the window to grab her.

López greeted the Zupervisors and other staff with "Kai!" and a splayed hand to the heart.

Stretching a splayed hand upward, he turns it out, then in, then out again.

The shot of a splayed hand shooting out of a broken window is "The Cry".

The singers move slowly and angularly, drawing particular attention to stiffly splayed hands.

But she also incorporates awkward gesticulation with angled shoulders and extreme facial contortions, splayed hands and hieratic profiled poses.

Jacobson's vocabulary here is far more naturalistic (low crouches, flexed feet, splayed hands, headlong jumps), and you can imagine how strange the dancing must have looked in 1958, when the first sections were created.

Contrasting with the dancers' fluidity is the surprising angularity of their body shapes: hips jut out, elbows are bent, flexed wrists sprout into splayed hands and dancers drop into deep knock-kneed pliés.

Consider, for instance, today's most notorious pissing figure, his back to us, feet splayed, hands busy facilitating nature's call: Calvin, of the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes".