Sentence examples for splayed hands from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

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.

One photograph of Merce Cunningham dancing on a lawn transforms his body into an exotic symbol, as if the jaggedly bent knees, curving torso and splayed hands and feet described an alphabet character from a mysterious lost language.

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.

Twiggy thin, with splaying hands and translucent skin stretching taut over spiky angles, she possesses a rangy muscularity that nearly always makes her seem taller than she actually is.

One of those high-wire performers?" He splayed his hands to pantomime not knowing.