Body language

Usage examples of gestures.

All this was couched in the floweriest language, with great gestures and ceremonial pauses.

Though he waved away offers of food, he encouraged the villagers with friendly gestures to come forward and eat.

It was the lightest of gestures, but it stopped the man stolidly in his tracks.

Get you out of the room so you cannot be tempted, scaredy cat,” and Kelly made shooing gestures with her hands at Hrriss.

Making reasuring sounds and waving his hands in placatory gestures, he went right up to Eonneh and Ghotyakh who blinked rapidly but made no move.

He then straightened his tunic with careful gestures and smoothed back his hair with nerveless fingers.

With hand gestures, Todd directed them to the best points to reinforce the defences around the byres.

He added, complete with wild gestures, that its happening with a third-generation sun was utterly improbable, incredible, and unlikely -- as any zoologist of the lowest rating would tell you.

She made additional broad gestures of friendship and aid that could not be misunderstood.

She made exploratory small gestures with her hands on his chest, the side of his neck, without disturbing the vigilant Niffy.

The voice was youthful, the gestures girlish, but she resisted every effort of Prane's to draw out of her that quality he wanted Juliet to project.

Nancia began to wonder how many of his seemingly casual gestures were rehearsed.

With delicate gestures he nudged the joyball while the fingers of his left hand tapped out codes to enlarge and strengthen Thingberry's magical net.

Their loose-skinned, grayish hands moved rapidly back and forth in flickering gestures that Nancia captured as imageflashes for later interpretation.

She waved her long, thin hands in complex gestures and the man responded sneeringly in kind.