"gesture" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was a poignant gesture; all a condemned man could say to the woman he loved.
- Many of the crew reached for him and brushed his fingers in a sad and poignant gesture they missed him.
- But upon witnessing, at the Met, the gleaming parade of his career, one begins to understand the policy as a poignant gesture that weds decorative chic to fierce inspiration.
- Far from being a mere joke, Crusoe's blanking out on the word "solitude" is a poignant and complicated gesture.
- If nothing else, this poignant gesture on behalf of decency provided welcome comic relief to a grateful nation during the early months of the war on terrorism.
- She was on her side, as if she had grown too tired to sit, her cheek on the cold surface and one hand flung out in a curiously poignant gesture.
- He attended her wedding and, in a poignant gesture of regret, had tossed a bouquet of white flowers into the bridal car.
- It was, despite the curious posture, a most poignant gesture.
- But at the end, this glamorous, tough woman offers her gentle man a chair in a poignant gesture of affection.
- In a poignant gesture of traditional courtesy, Mr. Ashcroft was introduced at the hearing today by Senator Jean Carnahan, Democrat of Missouri, who succeeded him in the Senate.
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