Mr. Sharon has made at least a rhetorical gesture toward the same goal.

Spaces were huge, and the audience was used to the big rhetorical gesture.

I'm interested in rhetorical gestures, you see, and there's a lot of rhetoric in David's work.

Mostly, though, her choices of coloration, balance and rhetorical gesture suited the music perfectly.

Her aunt opened all the fingers of her gloved hand in a rhetorical gesture.

Given these problems, the Met has settled for an art of broad rhetorical gesture, and one from which a storytelling element is not excluded.

Finally there is the love of big rhetorical gesture, aimed (sometimes melodramatically but always vividly) at worldwide causes.

Dax recognized it as a standard rhetorical gesture, often used by college professors when they were lecturing.

It is a rhetorical gesture, whose only purpose is to be denied.

Or stop pretending to have an intellectual case at all and just use Cameron's favourite rhetorical gesture: "there is no alternative".