Sentence examples for superfluous gestures from inspiring English sources
"Everything is direct and clear — no superfluous gestures," Cunningham said.
The proportions are nicely calculated and sincerely articulated, and there is never a hint of the self-aggrandizing effect or the superfluous musical gesture.
Sometimes she paints shapes on her face and mugs theatrically, but these gestures are superfluous — Garbus draws your attention even if you are hundreds of feet from the stage, sometimes simply by the raw volume of her voice.
But prominent members of both Bush administrations seem to regard that gesture as superfluous.
Tipping, originally rejected by Americans as an anti-democratic gesture that validated class distinctions, was superfluous, and therefore saved customers money.
The director's name was added to the title to avoid confusion with another adaptation of Petronius's novel about Roman society in the first century, and if this seems like an arrogant gesture, it is also one of the most superfluous in the history of cinema.
Text is constant; it doesn't carry all the superfluous information that other forms of communication do, such as voice or gestures.
A largely symbolic gesture, it underscores the philosophy that creature comforts are superfluous and saving weight is everything.
The results of our study showed that agent enthusiasm did not impose additional cognitive load during multimedia learning, despite the fact that our enthusiastic agent exhibited "seductive" details such as superfluous dialogues and exaggerated nonverbal cues, i.e., vocal tones, facial expressions, and gestures.
