408 adjectives to describe gestures

She made a little gesture of "I've done all the fightin' I'm good for."

" He thrust his fingers with an impatient gesture through his hair.

It must be well told with a well-modulated voice and with slight but effective gesture.

And so, with sudden gesture, stooped his head to hide his face 'neath twitching fingers.

" At this juncture the man who opposed the others produced a revolver and made an angry gesture.

Where is Captain Sanchez?" Estada pointed downward in swift, expressive gesture.

"Are you sure?" The boy answered with a shrug and a significant gesture toward the letter-rack on the wall.

He was explaining with such violent gestures and eager words that they entirely neglected the first strokes of the tower bell.

He had no hat to raise, but he saluted Lydia Sessions with a sweeping gesture of the hand and passed on.

His pursuer was gaining on him rapidly, and it was in vain that his two friends (too loyal to make good their escape alone) stood, and with frantic gestures urged him to quicker movement.

he cried, again, with a helpless gesture; and then smiled at her, very sadly.

Percy Darrow waved his hand in an indescribably graceful and ironic gesture; then turned square on his heel and sauntered away to the north valley, out of the course of the lava.

Soon the menacing gestures of the crowd made them look to their safety.

But apparently she could read nothing there, and with an imperious gesture she exclaimed: "You will do what I ask now that I have exposed my secretmy shame to youand told everything?

"I cannot understand it," Kelson went on, with a sharp gesture of perplexity.

She offered a despairing gesture to the stars.

"I shall feel that I have mistaken my sphere, shall drop my tools, veil my bust, and cast myself into the arms of Nature, since Art rejects me;" replied Miss Larkins, with a tragic gesture and an expression which strongly suggested that in her eyes nature meant Theodore.

He passed his hand over his eyes with a very weary gesture and looked at Myrtle againthis time quite steadily.

A Disarmament Commission that has no forces available to prevent the arms trade will be just another Hague Convention, just another vague, well-intentioned, futile gesture.

He made a deprecatory gesture.

Each was expressing itself in its own way,singing its own song, and making its own peculiar gestures,manifesting a richness of variety to be found in no other forest I have yet seen.

Darrow made a swift gesture.

He sprang from his chair, began walking up and down the room; then with a great dramatic gesture he exclaimed, "Justice shall be rendered!"

This was enough for Petruchio, and privately desiring these people might be paid for their goods, and excuses made to them for the seemingly strange treatment he bestowed upon them, he with fierce words and furious gestures drove the taylor and the haberdasher out of the room: and then, turning to Katherine, he said, "Well, come, my Kate, we will go to your father's even in these mean garments we now wear."

The author, he says, should visualize the situations he is presenting, working out the appropriate gestures, for he who feels emotion is best at transmitting it to an audience.

408 adjectives to describe  gestures