The example of Webern suggests that when music is reduced to such minimal gestures, it's a good idea to keep timings brief as well.

Deprived of sets and costumes and with only minimal gestures to go by, one felt the instruments as a particularly powerful metaphor for the genre.

Iskander as usual was the first to raise his hand, a languid, minimal gesture.

When Acteon views his metamorphosis, the horror is conveyed with minimal musical gestures.

Her own spell was fast and hard, called with the mind and the minimal gesture of the hand rather than the labor it had once entailed.

He also made sense of the minimal gestures in this production.

All physical effort dissolves into the magic of minimal gestures.

Wii sports games reward both full-range motions and the most minimal gestures.

Back then, the minimal gesture of publicly eating with a black student would bring down a rain of abuse on the offending white.

During the 1920s increasingly minimal gestures towards some half-timbering in commercial speculative house-building saw the fashion diminish.