More difficult than delivering his lines, however, was learning a multitude of meaningful Italian gestures.

Joyce inserted her thumbnail behind her two front teeth and gave me a genuine Italian gesture.

With a broad, forthright and very Italian gesture, he yielded.

Orsini held his hands out in a typical Italian gesture.

Then he stopped and made an expansive Italian gesture.

The people in line all seem to be Italian, or at least they inflect with Italian gestures, and they're half the reason to go.

With that, he made an Italian gesture of disdain, brushing his fingers upward from beneath his chin.

Benedetto spread his hands in an Italian gesture of regret "He wished to get away from the world.

I made a classic Italian gesture of disrespect behind his back.

Italian gesture has nothing to do with the "body language" of elsewhere, whose modern flailings often seek to compensate for diminished vocabulary.