The phrase "threatening gesture" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a gesture or action that implies immediate harm or violence. Example: The bully made a threatening gesture towards the smaller child.
A pedestrian had slipped between cars to cross the street and turned toward Alain with a threatening gesture.
Norman Badler, an associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the university's Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, has been applying Laban's theories to distinguish between a threatening gesture and one of surrender, for example.
Rodriguez is pleased to flash his hipster credentials, proud of the hole where his heart is supposed to be, whereas Moodysson cannot film a threatening gesture without reminding us that somebody's heart has received another blow.
Japanese officials said the use of such radar was a threatening gesture that signified an increase in tensions, which have been growing since Japan's government announced last year that it would buy three of the five uninhabited islands from a Japanese citizen.
That is a threatening gesture from the military, which suspects the community of treating wounded fundamentalists — an act of treachery in the eyes of the state, but an act of faith for Luc, who cannot, in all conscience, choose whom he heals.
Rather than seeing this as a hugely threatening gesture by the service, these competitors all are welcoming it to varying degrees.
This is seen as a very non-threatening gesture.
The music circulates first on YouTube, with videos of kids in balaclavas slowly riding their bikes in front of corner shops, making deft little slashing gestures, threatening their "opps" from a rival block.
Afterward, some of the people from the restaurant gathered outside the mall, waving their sandals in an insulting gesture and threatening to boycott the mall, according to two men who run shops there, who did not want to be quoted by name for fear of damaging business relationships.
The gesture was surprisingly threatening.
Goodell noted in his letter to Johnson that although the Jets threw passes in Sainz's direction at that practice, she was never touched, nor did the Jets make any comments or gestures that were threatening.
