Words similar to gesture

Example sentences for: gesture

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I'm pretty enthusiastic about his candidacy, and even I saw that as a throwaway gesture.
The Enquirer , which called its special memorial issue "a loving tribute," even offered to forward its readers' condolences to the Kennedy family, a gesture that seemed touching in its inappropriateness.
The Los Angeles Times reported that many observers had expected the IRA to commit such an attack as a final gesture of defiance before slinking back to a cease-fire.
If a lie, by definition, becomes a lie only in the context of communication (speech, writing, gesture), and if a lie is immoral because it destroys the fundamental trust that makes communication possible--if all this is so, can a lie be told in a context where communication is understood to have no objective value to begin with?
An actress who packs more psychological detail into a single gesture than others get into whole scenes, Bening was barreling down the road to greatness before she hit a speed bump called Warren.