Sentence examples similar to with a sudden gesture from inspiring English sources

But much else suggested that the growing threat of war with the United States may have spurred what is undoubtedly the most punitive government in the Arab world toward a sudden gesture of magnanimity.

And then, in a sudden gesture, Jim takes back the unfinished cigarette, unthinkingly sticks it in his own mouth and returns to the war.

Then a mysterious, dark-clad figure makes a sudden gesture and the backdrop vanishes, revealing a sombre marbled hall.

Until he makes a sudden, unconvincing gesture of nobility, he registers as a spoiled brat who imagines that his father's connections can solve any problem.

The tango's juxtaposition of sudden gesture, balanced grace and imperturbable dignity possesses a life force, and Piazzolla, who died in 1992, neither photocopies the original nor weakens it with high-art cleverness.

She laughed with a sudden realization.

Scare them with a sudden surprise.

What he has is the ability to focus a long and apparently rambling argument in a sudden, blazingly dramatic gesture.

What he has in abundance is the ability to focus a long and apparently rambling argument in a sudden, blazingly dramatic gesture.

Talk in a soft voice, don't make sudden gestures and don't shout.

Mr. Furrer, a Swiss-Austrian composer born in 1954, works in sudden gestures, frantic motion and stark silences.