1 That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time.
2 He made an apologetic gesture with his softpalmed hand.
3 Something in the gesture told him that his sister was dying.
4 With a small gesture the officer indicated the skull-faced man.
5 With his characteristic gesture O'Brien resettled his spectacles on his nose.
6 It came out even in the gesture with which he thrust a hand into his pocket, or manipulated a cigarette.
7 O'Brien made a small impatient gesture, as though to say that the demonstration was hardly worth making.
8 What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside.
9 He had taken off his spectacles and was in the act of resettling them on his nose with his characteristic gesture.
10 With the curious, disarming friendliness that he always managed to put in to the gesture he resettled his spectacles on his nose.
11 It was a gesture which, if anyone had still thought in such terms, might have recalled an eighteenth-century nobleman offering his snuffbox.
12 The dream was still vivid in his mind, especially the enveloping protecting gesture of the arm in which its whole meaning seemed to be contained.
13 What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself.
14 Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.
15 A handsome, tough-looking boy of nine had popped up from behind the table and was menacing him with a toy automatic pistol, while his small sister, about two years younger, made the same gesture with a fragment of wood.
16 The dream had also been comprehended by--indeed, in some sense it had consisted in--a gesture of the arm made by his mother, and made again thirty years later by the Jewish woman he had seen on the news film, trying to shelter the small boy from the bullets, before the helicopter blew them both to pieces.
17 The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.
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