How To Use Gesticulation In A Sentence
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In tracing the History of Pantomime it becomes a matter of considerable difficulty, and, as Baron, in his _Lettres sur la Danse_, observes that when the word Dancing occurs in an old author, that it should always be translated by "gesticulation," "declamation," or "Pantomime.
A History of Pantomime
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Fancies herself to be an up-and-coming performance artist who specializes in facial gesticulations to accompany the sounds of flushing toilets and car alarms.
George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS)
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In most bands, the members need constant eye contact and body gesticulations in order to communicate musically.
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The judge was characteristically intense, frequently shifting to the edge of his seat and punctuating his thoughts with brisk gesticulations.
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Carefully observe someone whose gesticulation style you like.
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'No: I don't; and that is the advantage of not knowing any language but my own,' complacently replied Matilda, who considered all study but that of art as time wasted, and made her small store of French answer admirably by talking very loud and fast, and saying, '_Oui, oui, oui_,' on all occasions with much gesticulation, and bows and smiles of great suavity and sweetness.
Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
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Maître Charmolue drew forth an appalling document, and commenced reading with much gesticulation and the exaggerated emphasis of the Bar a Latin oration, in which all the evidences of the trial were set out in Ciceronian periphrases, flanked by citations from Plautus.
III. End of the Crown Piece Changed into a Withered Leaf. Book VIII
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Dr Johnson was overweight and suffered from chronic bronchitis, gout and dropsy, as well as nervous tics and compulsive gesticulations.
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Scalia was characteristically intense, frequently shifting to the edge of his seat and punctuating his thoughts with brisk gesticulations.
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It cannot be denied that they usually have the matter discussed before them by an intelligent bar, but the manner of the discussion is more after the furious mode of the prize-fighters at a fair for victory, -- not truth, in which violent gesticulation and round and reckless assertion are alone to be found, than the calm, dispassionate ratiocinatory process of one who seeks, by fair argument and clear illustration to enlighten the minds of the motley court upon a subject lying before it, shrouded in the gloom of the profoundest ignorance.
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.
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Dr Johnson was overweight and suffered from chronic bronchitis, gout and dropsy, as well as nervous tics and compulsive gesticulations.
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He's photographed in a graceful pose of dance, his facial expression and gesticulations unmistakably feminine.
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And the sonorous souls of Russian verbs, lend a meaning to the wild gesticulation of trees or to some discarded newspaper sliding and pausing, and shuffling again, with abortive flaps and apterous jerks along an endless windswept embankment.
Anecdotal Evidence
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‘Every hand movement, gesticulation or walking movement can be felt to be provocative,’ he said.
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Rome communicates his internal dialogue through improvised soliloquies which combine Shakespeare's language with street lingo and gesticulations.
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His lectures were full of theatrical gesticulations and breathless descriptions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wanton gesticulations of a Virgin in a wild assembly of Gallants, warmed with wine could be no other then riggish, and unmaidenly.
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Their gesticulation is menacing, both to the Court and the bystanders, and an equal portion of all they say, is distributed to every part of the hall.
Is That Legal?: February 2007 Archives
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There was so much hand gesticulation but my father was not remotely tired.
BritChick Paris: Why a Greek Home Is Where the Heart Is
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As I land after the first sortie of the day a young aircraftsman springs onto the wing of my aircraft with wild gesticulations and congratulates me on the award of the Diamonds.
Stuka Pilot
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Thus saying, he took a heavy draught of the liquor by which he was usually inspired, and the praises of which were the prevailing subject of his song; then, after much hemming, thrumming, and prelusion, and with many queer gestures and gesticulations, he began to effuse a lyric in the following fashion: --
Fanshawe
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In fact, many of the details were provided to the police implicitly by the male complainant through his physical motions and gesticulations.
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To the defensive or culpable Right Winger the emotion-based gesticulations of the flailing Liberal plaintiffs will never sway them and only serve to illustrate their already disdainful characterizations of the limp-wristed Left.
Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird
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'persiflage'; for silent gesticulations, which you would be most inclined to, would not be sufficient: something must be said, but that something, when analyzed, must amount to nothing.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
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There are also differences regarding the amount of gesticulation and mobility of the lips when communicating which are culturally determined.
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Body language, facial features, lips, eyes, gesticulations, in reality, is all apiece of the language we try our best to touch with words and more to make us understood.
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Though the theatrical gesticulations seemed slightly complicated to the uninitiated, the enactment was explicit.
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I know I do tend to move a little, largely because I naturally tend to use gesticulation and body language to emphasize what I'm talking about.
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There was much pumping of chests and expressive gesticulations.
Times, Sunday Times