gesture
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Gesture controls are notoriously finicky — often better in concept than execution.
From The Verge • Apr. 26, 2022
And two in particular: Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose podium protests at the 1968 Olympics are the subject of a timely and vital new film, The Stand: How One Gesture Shook The World.
From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2020
The gallery hosts “A Continued Gesture Towards Us,” a site-specific performance and exhibition in which Orrico, an artist and dancer, translates his movement practice into visual forms.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2018
The Offending Gesture Mac Wellman’s absurdist fable about a thin-skinned dictator, his staff, plus dogs, cats and others.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2017
When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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Vocabulary lists containing gesture
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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