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Recent Examples of gestural
The show credits a movement director (Didi Hopkins), but even so, there’s something a shade too automatic, too clumsily literal in Izzard’s gestural vocabulary.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2024
Moon’s confident performance — smoky voice, headstrong attitude, gestural dance moves — has caught the attention of critics.
—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
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2024
Moon’s confident performance — smoky voice, headstrong attitude, gestural dance moves — has caught the attention of critics.
—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
See all Example Sentences for gestural
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gestural
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Cruse has since released methode champenoise wines, which are more expressive, under the Cruse Tradition label.Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Known for his expressive personality and desire to be included, Cooper has proven that sometimes all a pet wants is to be part of the pack.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
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As is the case with almost all mobile devices in Samsung’s new sale, the deal focuses mostly on higher trade-in prices instead of straight discounts.Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Earlier this year, border officials in Finland held a small-scale trial of a DTC on 22 airline routes, using a mobile app that had been developed.Matt Burgess, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2024
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The open cabin idea starts with a movable center console between the front seats; it can be moved forward toward the dash or back toward the rear seat.Scotty Reiss, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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The printer involves a movable framework with a printhead attached to a rig that moves across a ground layer.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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In contrast, the rate for medical and moving purposes is based just on the variable costs.Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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One of the more moving stories in The New York Times this week is an account of the life of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO who was gunned down on Dec. 4 outside of a New York hotel.Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 14 Dec. 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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But this requires church-goers to be a demonstrative example of what the church is all about.Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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As ecstatic as the campers were to see the magic behind what makes Fox so consistent in games, no one in the gym was more demonstrative with their support than Recee, who has been married to Fox since fall of 2022 after Fox proposed to his then-girlfriend two years prior.Hunter Patterson, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
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“Gestural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gestural. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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