air quote

They are sometimes gestured in oral speech using air quotes.

She made air quote marks with her fingers and smirked.

It feels like it's got air quotes around it.

Now I did air quotes, too, which was probably good, as it released Mark's hand from my enthusiastic prison.

Air quotes - flexing fingers, palm out, both hands.

Brauer would make regular use of air quotes to emphasize every point he made.

While the term "air quotes" did not appear until 1989, use of similar gestures has been recorded as early as 1927.

"If there are air quotes around this show," he added, the show "shouldn't be."

Did the person who was quoted use air quotes, or did that person emphasize the word "key?"

And if I wasn't strapped down, I'd make air quotes around retired."

I'm making air quotes: 'discovered' by the folks in Wimbledon.

"Restaurant quality," he said, making air quotes.

It's largely on account of Andrew's influence that I put those typographical air quotes around "conservative."

He actually made air quotes.

They are invariably too serious or too funny or every comment comes with ironic "air quotes" around it.

And I hate air quotes.

She expressed her annoyance at corporate-speak, for instance, with air quotes: having to "anticipate the guest's needs" or being told to "wow them."

Those air quotes again!

Yuppies still order designer pizzas; they just do it with air quotes to denote ironic self-awareness.

On the show, Martin popularized the air quotes gesture, which uses four fingers to make double quote marks in the air.

In the early episodes of the first series, Drake addresses her colleagues as "imaginary constructs" and mimes air quotes when saying their names.

"He's always got a tongue in his cheek, but because he's such an earnest fellow himself, it always comes out without air quotes.

One may question some of the tonal body language (e.g., those air quotes around "winner"), but still: succinct and accurate.

"They prefer the term 'sprite,' " Isabel said, putting air quotes around the word "sprite."

"I didn't 'run around," " I said, making air quotes with my hands.