Sentence examples for violent gestures from inspiring English sources

The phrase "violent gestures" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe physical movements that are aggressive or forceful, often conveying anger or hostility. Example: "During the argument, he made several violent gestures that made everyone in the room uncomfortable."

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"The violent gestures, the look of greed and the faces of experience are all real".

He watched them engage in a series of ambiguously violent gestures — squeeze, swat, bite, slap — which, to his eyes, indicated maternal and filial affection.

Much as all her contemporaries, she was influenced by Caravaggio, with high-contrast lighting effects, flesh bathed in light set off by dark shadows, contorted features, violent gestures.

VIOLENCE The alcoholic Lou is a nasty drunk and when ambulatory terrorizes a birthday party for little children with crude remarks and violent gestures.

The streets of Havana are even worse — the inverse of a workers' paradise, where the teeming citizens are "trapped by an anxiety that could only be relieved through shouting, violent gestures and resentful glances".

As a soundtrack of whistling wind filled Merce Cunningham's dimly lighted studio, Ms. Soll's trim, white-clad figure flowed through big, slow arcs, only to convulse into violent gestures.

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In one violent gesture, the pratfall condensed the culture's dynamism and panic.

The Porteous riots and lynching were a type of violent gesture common to the history of most old cities.

It is a radical, almost violent gesture, invigorating Ms. Takaezu's signature shapes and forms with a new vitality.

The flash of the violent gesture, for Safire, was more important than the justice of the action.

"When I got home," Verdi told his publisher years later, "I threw the manuscript on the table with a violent gesture, and stood staring at it.

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