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Recent Examples of gestural
The vast majority of gestural interactions (83 percent) involved a two-part exchange of gesture for gesture.
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Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
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.
—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
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Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gestural
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Unfortunately, Erskine already is on shaky ground with Viscount David Brooke (a subtly expressive Mark Strong), who has recently replaced his deceased father as editor of The London Chronicle, and doesn’t share his high regard for Erskine’s flamethrower prose.Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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Bud is a schnauzer mix with deep, expressive eyes; beige snoot and leg stockings; and a white chest, with the rest of his fur a charcoal black.TJ Macias, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2025
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Known as the global navigation satellite system, or GNSS, signals from these satellites provide the foundation for mobile networks, energy grids, the internet, and GPS.Dario d’Elia, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2025
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Bitdefender's mobile security for iOS is seriously limited.PCMAG, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
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There’s also the option to add upgrades like a movable chaise, an ottoman, bolster pillows, and/or a sleep kit.Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Jan. 2025
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Plus, the Oilers lack assets — movable roster players, prospects and draft picks — to facilitate trades even though general manager Stan Bowman has some flexibility because he’s worked to accrue cap space most of the season.Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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The rate for medical and moving purposes is based on the variable costs.Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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Sam and Eric’s attempts to evade the aliens can be gripping and scary, but Day One is really a profoundly moving exploration of what survival really means.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 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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For her, Lebanon’s endless crises were demonstrative of the real country, too saturated with sectarian divisions to ever hope for freedom from foreign control.Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Judon was demonstrative at times in training camp, leaving one practice before returning to confront executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf on the field, missing another workout and expressing his discontent multiple times to the media.Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Aug. 2024
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“Gestural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gestural. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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