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Recent Examples of gestural
Where An Orange Colored Day was gestural and allusive, A Rush to Nowhere is direct.
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Stephen Kearse,
Pitchfork,
11 Mar. 2026
The fundamental trouble with such franchise films is that the construction of character is usually no more than gestural: with all the emphasis on extravagant spectacle and on backstories in the franchise universe, there’s rarely any room for personality, experience, or knowledge.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
There’s a speaker, and a physical button, which could potentially be used to take photos or as a gestural shortcut to other commands — like waking the virtual assistant.
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Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
This time it was brought back to life with illustrations full of character and expressive gestural linework.
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Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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Stephen Kearse,
Pitchfork,
11 Mar. 2026
The fundamental trouble with such franchise films is that the construction of character is usually no more than gestural: with all the emphasis on extravagant spectacle and on backstories in the franchise universe, there’s rarely any room for personality, experience, or knowledge.
—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
There’s a speaker, and a physical button, which could potentially be used to take photos or as a gestural shortcut to other commands — like waking the virtual assistant.
—
Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
This time it was brought back to life with illustrations full of character and expressive gestural linework.
—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gestural
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gestural
Adjective
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The result is 260 pages of richly-detailed, expressive drawings, mostly in regimented 12-panel grids that mirror the grinding rhythms of daily life in rural, 19th century America.
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Robotic teaching assistant Designed for interactive, face-to-face engagement, the M-Series robot combines natural language processing, expressive facial movements and real-time conversational abilities to communicate with students in a human-like manner during classroom activities.
Adjective
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Kings general manager Ken Holland still saw enough to lock down the mobile defenseman through the 2030-31 season.
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Designs can be loaded in from popular Windows and MacOS desktop software like LightBurn and LaserGRBL for detailed engraving work, as well as an Android mobile app for simple workflows.
Adjective
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There are also two bear pendants with movable limbs — the $32 Felix and the $52 Frankie.
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Moehrig will be used all around the defense as a moveable chess piece, while Scott will work the deeper part of the field.
Adjective
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The report conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California analyzed 2023-24 traffic stop data and found that Sacramento police disproportionately stopped Black drivers, often for minor vehicle equipment or non-moving violations.
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Domingo nails it and is very moving.
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The problem was that, under a microscope, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and other motile bacteria almost instantly swam out of frame.
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Upstairs at Sperm Racing HQ is a lab stocked with racks of test tubes, centrifuges for separating out the most motile sperm from a sample, and little plastic slides containing new microscopic racecourses for frat-boy cum.
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Jose Altuve is not demonstrative.
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While Wall Street executives have beat a trail to the UAE capital since the onset of the war, Silicon Valley leaders — who have been a major beneficiary of Gulf sovereign wealth funds’ largesse — have been less demonstrative.
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“Gestural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gestural. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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