From time to time hands would shape fleeting gestures that might normally have served to suggest a character, narrative or setting.

It is as much a language of fleeting gestures as of words, as much a matter of detected mental-change patterns as anything else.

Commander Quinn, at his shoulder, touched his elbow in a fleeting gesture of restraint.

Unable to think of anything to say, she reached out to touch Lucas's hand with what was meant to be a fleeting gesture of silent sympathy.

The SS man made a fleeting gesture across his throat and his eyes flicked towards the captain, suggesting the obvious.

The love theme is also glimpsed through the abstract choreography with fleeting gestures and images of couples.

The loose brushwork is typical of Hals and shows a fleeting gesture with the casual way her finger is hooked over her wrist.

Rous wiped his cheeks with a fleeting gesture.

We must not accept any fleeting or underhand gestures, and nor must we bow to the whims of the dictatorship.

Several sequences resembled struggles with unseen forces; there were fleeting gestures that suggested praying hands.