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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gestural
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This is a really pretty wine with aromas of orange blossom and honeysuckle with juicy stone fruit on the refreshing palate with bright acidity and a long expressive finish. 2021 Alma Rosa, Chardonnay, El Jabalí Vineyard, Sta.Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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The artist’s intuitive approach to sculpting diverse materials into expressive forms led to the creation of soaring red and pink rose blossoms made of fiberglass and stainless steel that rise as high as 15 feet into the air.Troy J. McMullen, Architectural Digest, 9 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, the bank is accelerating its value to end users too, adding nearly 250 features through a modern, user-friendly interface that has a ‘One View’ feature on the bank’s mobile app, allowing customers to manage their finances seamlessly.Forbes, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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But the mobile computing wave of the past two decades caught the company off-guard, leaving it to fall behind rivals.Clare Duffy, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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As Architectural Record points out, Ban’s interest in movable design is in reference to Japanese shoji screens, which were traditionally doors or room dividers that could be opened and closed or moved around to easily reconfigure the layout of a space.Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 4 Dec. 2024
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The annual salary is movable, if the Rockets desire to go that route, but a 10% trade kicker included in the deal, per reports, gives Green some degree of protection.Rahat Huq, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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In a stunningly moving scene, Sam leads his shaken and shattered partner, Michael (Omari Douglas), to safety amid an unexpected and bloody shootout at their apartment.Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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These scenes, combined with Tendler’s detailing of her relationship with her mother, make for some of the best and most moving writing in the book, to say nothing of a very beautiful chapter on her French bulldog, Petunia, toward the end.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 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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The object of their ridicule was designed to capture Wade’s demonstrative reaction to hitting a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer for the Miami Heat in a 2009 home victory against the Chicago Bulls, his hometown team.Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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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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“Gestural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gestural. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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