Sentence examples for strenuous gesture from inspiring English sources
Brancusi's "Sleeping Muse" (1908) and the small "Bust of a Boy with Head Inclined" (1907) reflect Rodin's later interests in the expressiveness of modelling as opposed to strenuous gesture.
The swimming gestures appeared genuinely strenuous.
In exclaiming devotion to her banished Posthumus or keeping the repulsive Cloten at arm's length, either Jane Arnfield's Imogen is a drama queen or the actress is deteriminedly overacting; it's hard to imagine a performance with a greater multitude of arm gestures, louder body language, more strenuous exercise of facial muscles or less modulated line readings.
Long before the two crossed paths at the office, Platt, then a graduate student at Cambridge, picked up Muldoon's 1981 collection "Why Brownlee Left," choosing the poems "Cuba" and "Bran" to embark on, as he puts it, "a strenuous attempt to realize poetic detail in musical gesture, to grow decadent ivy around Paul's magnificent trellis of words".
It is all very jolly, if a bit strenuous, but the best is saved till last when, in a gesture fitting the Royal Court's season of revolution, we literally see the world turned upside down.
It's tremendously strenuous".
Strenuous efforts must continue".
