Sentence examples for submissive gesture from inspiring English sources
"Another example is the retraction of lip corners, which seems to be part of a submissive gesture in horses.
In a dogfight, whenever one of the dogs "turns" — makes a submissive gesture with its head — the two animals are separated and taken back to their corners.
Some 95 years on from the terrible violence, several protesters on Tuesday wore T-shirts with the slogan "Hands up, don't shoot", and lamented that though Crutcher held his arms aloft, the submissive gesture did not save his life in 2016.
The 'low posture' is a submissive gesture; the bird sits low on the perch with legs obscured by fluffed feathers and often faces away from the other bird.
Other aggressive behaviours include a threat-stare, used to intimidate or start a fight, and a submissive gesture known as pulled-back lips.
In this sense, F0 variation might be the vocal equivalent of a smile a friendly signal that may have phylogenetic roots in a submissive gesture (Darwin 1872; Ketelaar et al. 2005).
Sometimes it's better to stop fighting it and hold up your hands — perhaps with an accompanying shrug of the shoulders and a submissive, palms-out gesture of surrender — and usher in the dawn of creeping middle age with a mature degree of acceptance and inevitability.
Do not make direct sustained eye contact or any other dominant gestures, as this will merely reinforce the submissive behaviors.
Passive, submissive, languid, sedated?
Submissive leading men -- check.
