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gesture

Motion of the face, body, or limbs, used to express emotion or illustrate or enforce something that is said. It is also the art of using such movements for rhetorical or dramatic purposes.



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And though he holds gesturally that the explanation of the exceptional extent of American violence rests in our basic consensus, his every specification of (other people's) explanations--polarization, discrimination and exploitation, social dislocation, decentralization, ethnic and religious diversity, evangelical Protestantism--rests on an absence of any such consensus.
Perreault's minimalist and indiosyncratic contemporary choreography is earthbound, gesturally limited, and repetitive.
However, while Michelangelo's Eve -- the subject of Boyle's second section -- is depicted with her palms together and raised before God alone in a gesture of distinct and prayerful submission, "[i]t is the Creator to whom [Eve] relates posturally and gesturally, ignoring Adam who slumbers unconscious in her presence" (107).
 
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