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Recent Examples of gestural
Each month of the calendar unveils one of Robertson's bespoke works, featuring loose brushwork and collage-like compositions that transform into gestural human figures.
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Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Muti lavishes attention and consideration on gestural details like few others, and his uncompromising specificity made for riveting listening.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2024
Lavish layering of fluid, gestural brushstrokes executed in a variegated array of inimitable colors immediately captured and captivated my gaze.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
To test the fully gestural navigation, enable them in system settings.
—Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2019
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Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Muti lavishes attention and consideration on gestural details like few others, and his uncompromising specificity made for riveting listening.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2024
Lavish layering of fluid, gestural brushstrokes executed in a variegated array of inimitable colors immediately captured and captivated my gaze.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
To test the fully gestural navigation, enable them in system settings.
—Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gestural
Adjective
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In the United States, permission from the subject of a story is typically not required to create expressive works.—
Legal Entertainment,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Fashionably oversized trousers don’t have to be neutral, but instead abstract-printed or in strange muted tones, and super skinny ones buck the (better) trend of the former because good taste bows to expressive statement, here.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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One of the most compelling experiences in the expo was The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, a mobile AR reconstruction of a tragic and largely forgotten event nearly erased from history.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Cuban compared people who are wary of adopting AI tools in the workplace to those who were once afraid to embrace PCs and mobile devices.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,Megan Sauer,
CNBC,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Organizers with movable clips or mounts or multiple pockets let your organizer grow with you.—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
14 Mar. 2025
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The first sliver of light in the east revealed their movable aviary, a box of netted scaffolding the size of a barn, with a few dozen birds perched in silhouette, like hieroglyphs.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Filming this way adds time and complication: There are so many more moving parts, and for each new take of a scene, every patient and special effect has to be reset, and the entire set has to be cleaned and reorganized.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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One of her most moving posts was her recent follow-up with John Hopkins, longtime owner of Altadena’s O Happy Days vegan cafe and natural food store, who lost his home and store in the Eaton fire.—
Laurie Ochoa,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Semen quality was determined by measuring semen volume, sperm shape and concentration, and the proportion of sperm that were motile (capable of moving or swimming properly).—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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Instead, the reduction in hormones and testes size only decreased the cichlids’ amount of motile sperm.—
Joseph Castro,
Discover Magazine,
19 July 2011
Adjective
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Charles has been demonstrative in his support for Ukraine defending itself against Russian aggression, issuing statements and making regular visits to relief organizations that help refugees from the war, as the New York Times pointed out.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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In this regard, Wuthering Heights was perhaps her most demonstrative showcase.—
Mayukh Sen,
The Atlantic,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Gestural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gestural. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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