hand-waving

Still, it's hard to picture the queen's hand-waving and flower-show excursions inspiring the hysteria that celebrities do.

Going Gaga for Queen Elizabeth Enda Curran 2011

It's no wonder she was at the heart of the season's first house brouhaha, a screaming, senseless blowup with Sammi, Jersey Shore's poster girl for hand-waving, hate-spewing horribleness.

Watercooler: More Trash Washed Up on the Jersey Shore 2011

He gave the Inaugural address a hand-waving endorsement: "I thought the speech was fine," he said, but what he was really saying was, "Don't ask me to say what I really think."

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

We'll still do it, of course; we just won't need vague, hand-waving phrases to talk about it.

Art and Cognitive Science: Six Amazing TED Talks The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

However, the tired, old "I'm a taxpayer!" hand-waving is the wrong argument, and just doesn't hold water.

NASA ESAS Study Appendices Show up on Pay-Per Use Site - NASA Watch 2009

You’ll notice that Marshall’s attempted rebuttal fails to actually address the substantive criticisms made in Adrangi’s piece - Marshall never mentions the impacts of Alberta’s tar sands development on women, but instead repeats the same arguments and general hand-waving that sparked Adrangi’s criticism of EthicalOil.org's conservative pundits in the first place.

Emma Pullman: Why Ethical Oil's Deceptive 'Women's Rights' Defense of Tar Sands Is Insulting and Wrong Emma Pullman 2011

We'll still do it, of course; we just won't need vague, hand-waving phrases to talk about it.

SLIDESHOW: Art And Creativity In The Lab: Six Amazing TED Talks Travis Korte 2011

We'll still do it, of course; we just won't need vague, hand-waving phrases to talk about it.

SLIDESHOW: Art And Creativity In The Lab: Six Amazing TED Talks Travis Korte 2011

There's lots of hand-waving in that direction -- and grisly ritualistic murders, which only hint at the supernatural -- but ultimately the supernatural element is a tease that doesn't solidify.

REVIEW: The Osiris Ritual by George Mann 2010

And before you pass off all the dissent as the hand-waving of "ageing Trekkies and nerds", know this: you'd be dead wrong.

Star Trek On Orbit - NASA Watch 2009