He isolated an ordinary gesture, whether it was playing the violin or walking with a lawn mower down an aisle.

A well-performed sleight looks like an ordinary, natural and completely innocent gesture, change in hand-position or body posture.

"Being so concentrated, keeping everything in your eyes is stronger than ordinary gestures," she said.

To make such a small, ordinary gesture somehow filled him with a warmth and satisfaction he hadn't known in a long time.

The key to all these pieces is the ordinary gesture or ordinary movement, suddenly deepened into meaning that has a frightening truth about it.

They had, moreover-intolerable to their ordinary neighbours-a proud gesture, that did not fit with the jealous idea of the democratic Christian.

The smallest, most ordinary gestures become indelible, like the sight of one Indian child grooming the hair of another.

The movements in both derived from ordinary gestures.

It was an ordinary enough gesture, but it unnerved Jenny a bit.

He watched himself perform such an ordinary gesture, astounded.