Sentence examples for wide gesture from inspiring English sources

As poets, both were in full command as they described the work which was in front of them, Bishop amused by the small marks her grand-uncle the painter had made, Gunn awed by the mystery of St Paul's conversion, "the wide gesture of the lifting arms", as painted by Caravaggio.

"I'm looking for a partner because we alone cannot do it," he told delegates, smiling and opening his arms in a wide gesture of appeal.

He threw his arm in a wide gesture over the opium fields and grinned, continuing, "but in this, I'm a professor".

Some of them have wide gestures; some of them have very small ones.

He had the right delivery for it — a beautiful, rotund voice, wide gestures, and no self-consciousness whatever.

Early in Bill Clinton's political career he would punctuate his speeches with big, wide gestures that made him appear untrustworthy.

The theme is the same — lost country — but whereas Skipper had applied his paint in exact, economical dabs, Chuguna had swept hers onto the canvas in wide gestures that recall the way thick ochre body paint is applied by thumb onto the breasts of women dancers in clan ceremonies.

Paul sings with his index finger touching his thumb, the rest of his fingers spread wide, gesturing as he enunciates each syllable.

Do not wave your hands or lift them in the air; instead face the dog and put your hands in front of you, palms out and fingers wide, gesturing "STOP".

Rather than giving players the option of putting Pride Tape on their sticks if they felt like taking an individual stand as an ally, it became a team-wide gesture.

He ties up the sack mouth with one end of the rope, and throws the other end twice over a great bough above that's like an arms-wide gesture of welcome with one arm.