Sentence examples for typical gesture from inspiring English sources

It's a typical gesture from the actor, who seems determined to make the ordinary out of the  extraordinary.

In one typical gesture several years before the World Trade Center terrorist attack, she gave the Police Department $1 million.

It was on the house — a typical gesture from a restaurant that seems to have found its identity not in inspiring customers but in making them happy.

In a typical gesture, Whitman told me to search through the 1950s periodicals piled on the stairs and to take anything of which there was more than one copy.

The cast, too, is so hip that it makes your gums hurt, with cameos for Gael García Bernal, John Hurt, Bill Murray, and a white-wigged Tilda Swinton, whose deployment of a transparent umbrella as a parasol is a typical gesture of stylized futility.

It must have been an odd experience for most of the network's viewers — a strange swerve from the channel's middlebrow programming — but it was a typical gesture for Ernst, who has strived to retain the air of a risk-taking auteur even as he has ascended to the highest circles of power during Putin's rule.

Sometimes the robot used only typical gestures, like moving a hand or shrugging its shoulders, but sometimes it mimicked the four cues of distrust: clasping its hands, crossing its arms, touching its face or leaning away.

"I've always seen the ballet as being, 'Here's a little tea pot, short and stout,' " he said, singing and miming the typical gestures of the nursery rhyme with his heavily tattooed arms.

Eye contact and pointing are typical gestures in order to direct another individual's attention toward a target.

Even if you don't know what you're looking at (besides the obvious fact that it's wine in a glass), you can definitely pretend you're "in the know" by adopting the typical gestures of a seasoned wine taster.

Similar evidence of right-handedness for species-typical gestures has been reported in gorillas [35] and baboons [36].