Sentence examples for striking gestures from inspiring English sources
There were striking gestures and plenty of drama, but the piece felt rather long-winded.
Because of the film's discontinuities and overbearing attention to peculiar stories and striking gestures, the character of Hughes glows with no heat of inner passion.
Her quiet intensity matched the performance quality of Mr. Caines, who mixed pedestrian movement and striking gestures into the ballet lexicon for the mournful, meditative "Solo Suite".
And while the music was filled with striking gestures — breathtakingly fast unison passages, moments when the supporting instruments held a note while a flute scampered off on a rapid phrase, plenty of adroit quotations echoing other composers — its complexities didn't weave together to make a coherent statement.
It's a striking gesture of relinquishment.
Against the backdrop of the seething crowd, it was a striking gesture — almost Biblical.
In a less striking gesture, President Dilma Rousseff moved ahead this month with the demarcation of seven much smaller indigenous areas.
In a striking gesture of conciliation, the Maoists agreed in April last year that the army need accommodate only 1,450 of their ex-fighters (not the 12,000 they earlier wanted "integrated").Such pragmatic concessions provoked a hardline Maoist faction to break away.
He has gone for a striking gesture, a complex and contradictory building that will have to work hard to prove that it is truly the home of popular, democratic and effective London government.
The Republican made a striking gesture of that confidence by visiting Pennsylvania, a state long assumed to be in Obama's column and one that has not voted for a GOP presidential candidate in more than two decades.
In a striking gesture of support for public education, Gov. Gray Davis today proposed to exempt California public school teachers from the state's personal income tax, in what state officials said they believed was the first such peacetime exemption for any occupation in American history.
