hand-waving

But there is really more than fervent talk and hand-waving going on here.

The coaches box must take control; less hand-waving and more time directing on the phone late in the piece.

A more fancy and effective method of hand-waving is by drawing a picture.

This sounds like a lot of hand-waving with grand intentions but few actual details.

All these examples, apart from the hand-waving, occur in one paragraph.

The proper ones, of course, who pulled their weight in the hand-waving and bridge-opening department.

There is much hand-waving and table-hopping, like guests at a wedding.

Your crazy hand-waving whenever we got in a jam was even stranger, but it all makes sense now.

In formal debate competition, certain forms of hand-waving may sometimes be explicitly permitted.

I've heard many theories... but they're all hot air and hand-waving.

There was a great cascade of Russian, accompanied by a lot of hand-waving.

They had a regular discussion in progress, with lots of hand-waving and glancing back over their headrests at me.

In this context, hand-waving is not merely a pedagogical paradigm or rhetorical device.

Attempt to diffuse lack of credibility with hand-waving.

Learning a second way is hard enough without all the hand-waving you Aes Sedai do.

WikiLeaks has a history of hand-waving away the consequences of their disclosures.

Unfortunately, this frantic hand-waving did what all the shouting in the village could not have done-it caught the old woman's attention.

Shouting and hand-waving fill the room, and cups of thick Turkish coffee are passed around.

Ganapati's hand-waving now resembled the flapping of an outraged hen.

The descriptive epithet hand-waver has been applied to those engaging in hand-waving, but is not common.

Other than that we had very little to go on except some very rough sketches and hand-waving from Darrin.

What's all that hand-waving and shrieking about?

At one point he even conducts a domestic argument complete with hand-waving, shouting dialogue that has to be subtitled.

This prompts embarrassed hand-waving: "That's so nice of you!

Or else I'm right, and it's all a bunch of pseudoscientific hand-waving that isn't worth the electronic storage space necessary to publish it.