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Recent Examples of gestural
Moon’s confident performance — smoky voice, headstrong attitude, gestural dance moves — has caught the attention of critics.
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Michael Paulson, New York Times, 8 May 2024
Reproductions or different iterations of specific pieces followed, as did stencil work and big gestural, smeary paintings.
—Alix Strauss, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
The work is a massive embodiment of roiling gestural energy.
—Julia Couzens, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
Well, one of the things Kevin did was build a team, including the painter Natalie Frank, who does these very expressive, gestural paintings about sort of dystopian fairy tales.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
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Michael Paulson, New York Times, 8 May 2024
Reproductions or different iterations of specific pieces followed, as did stencil work and big gestural, smeary paintings.
—Alix Strauss, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
The work is a massive embodiment of roiling gestural energy.
—Julia Couzens, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
Well, one of the things Kevin did was build a team, including the painter Natalie Frank, who does these very expressive, gestural paintings about sort of dystopian fairy tales.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
See all Example Sentences for gestural
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gestural
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My films are really expressive about people’s lives.Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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Yamada’s color direction is deeply expressive from start to finish.Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
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Google One adds photo editing tools, a mobile VPN, and priority customer support.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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At its core, the concept of mobile deer hunting requires minimalism on all fronts.Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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Harris introduced an Opportunity Agenda for Black Men, outlining what her administration would do to support that voting constituency that seemed movable.Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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According to The New York Times, the costume includes a glowing fingertip — an ode to the beloved movie — and a motorized headpiece with a movable mouth and eyes.Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Sheryl gets a teary good-bye scene with her granddaughters, but perhaps the most moving moment is when Kristen — who admits to how complicated this is given the current status of her relationship with her mother — brings David in to perform last rites if Sheryl wants them.Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 July 2024
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The very moving results brings to mind find-the-river classics like REM’s Automatic For the People.Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
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Instead, the reduction in hormones and testes size only decreased the cichlids’ amount of motile sperm.Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2011
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Moreover, having normal semen volumes, sperm motility, sperm concentration, and total motile sperm counts are not guarantees of fertility.Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 21 June 2021
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That'd be the cruise control system, which will get you home from a long day on the road with about 60% less swearing and moaning on the final freeway stretch, accompanied by a corresponding increase in demonstrative gloating if your riding buddies don't have it on their bikes too.New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024
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Sometimes behind the physically demonstrative effort of performance there lies a gentle soul.Eric Fuller, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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“Gestural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gestural. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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