Sentence examples for unnecessary gestures from inspiring English sources

"There was something thin and jaunty about him, in the tilt of his head, or in one of the conscious, unnecessary gestures he was always making, that belonged more to an actor than to a priest".

Don't wave your hands or otherwise make unnecessary gestures when you are speaking to the judge.

There's not a lot of unnecessary gesture".

No unnecessary gesture, no hint of emotion: senza baldanza, as a composer might have marked it.

Releford dribbled out the final seconds as he and Taylor looked toward the stands and waved their arms, an unnecessary gesture since the crowd of 24,107 was already up and cheering.

The verbal abuse, the posturing, the unnecessary gesturing appeared to be every bit as bad as ever.

It is an unnecessary gesture towards a constituency that would not be satisfied even if he reduced their obligations to zero, and an indirect acknowledgement of the power of money.

Critics have called the sanctions an unnecessary punitive gesture meant to demonstrate Washington's toughness against Iran while Obama pursues a diplomatic solution.

When you're playing someone of the opposite gender in a scene, do you demonstrate this by making stereotypical, unnecessary comments or gestures?

Mr. Lowery wanted Wheeler to disarm himself by film's end; Mr. Foster, who had prepared by getting to know actual Texas sheriffs, found the gesture unnecessary.

In Marisol's art, unessential gesture and unnecessary detail go by the wayside.