Sentences with phrase «emphatic gesture»

The ref looked right at Biyombo after the takedown and made an emphatic gesture (which I thought was a T).

Arm raised in an emphatic gesture, he points rigidly to the woman who stands on his right.

As the painted models perform within it, enacting private rituals and meditations with slow and emphatic gestures, the glass will gradually become more opaque.

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Well Spoken contains a framework for understanding the skills involved in all effective oral communication, offers practical steps and lesson ideas that any teacher needs to successfully teach speaking in a variety of situations — from classroom discussions to formal presentations — and includes a set of tools for students — from how to grab the audience's attention to how to use emphatic hand gestures and adjust speed for effect.

In its intensification of modernist tropes the group of paintings in Yes Yes Yes & Pink Flamingo brings expressive gesture and emphatic materiality to the discipline of painting along with references to macho clichés and occasional obscenities.

Unlike Auerbach, whose gestures structure his image, or Hodgkins, whose paintings are abstractions based upon memories yet still appear anchored in reality, Caivano's best results seem less emphatic statements and more queries into the nature of picture - making.

Politicians not standing for anything apart from slightly different forms of superficial niceness — Blair's trademark was insincere modesty, forced emotion, estuarine twang and emphatic hand gestures — is the cause of the political malaise that Blair ponders.