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It also fosters an abiding appreciation for the gesticulative art of the all-deaf performers, whose interactions — whatever the emotion at hand — have the expressiveness of choreography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2015

The driver awoke with a start from profound reverie, looked Kirkwood over, and bowed with gesticulative palms.

From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

Boys ran shouting, while, here and there, knots of men argued loudly, and in front of the little corner drug-store a noisily talkative, widely gesticulative crowd of fifty or more had gathered.

From The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington

Mrs. Crowley, a pretty little woman of twenty-eight, very beautifully dressed, vivacious and gesticulative, is watching her quietly.

From Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The chorus, composed of singers and dancers, formed part of the drama, which included the recitation of some poetic composition, and included gesticulative and mimetic action as well as dancing and singing.

From The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. by Anonymous


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