wavings

You don't get any of the kind of wavings and excitement and double-barrelled adjectives that you can listen to any time you turn on the short wave to Germany, but just a quiet, strong, competent and witty, light-hearted and grave-minded statement of certain fundamental facts on which we can comfortably base ourselves.

The Difficulties of the Axis 1940

Between the booby-hatch and the wheel, sitting up and rocking back and forth with wringings of hands and wavings of arms, tears of agony bursting from his eyes, was Buckwheat.

CHAPTER XLIX 2010

Went to more sign-wavings, handed out literature, talked with like minded people, & got psyched up …

Ron Paul, World of Warcraft, the Internet, and VDARE.COM 2008

Went to more sign-wavings, handed out literature, talked with like minded people, & got psyched up …

Barry Bonds In National Review 2008

Munro then began an extraordinary ballet of the hands, motioning to himself, away down toward the forest, at me, and back to himself, with such an array of gestures and wavings that I could hardly follow his flying hands.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Went to more sign-wavings, handed out literature, talked with like minded people, & got psyched up …

VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Ron Paul, World of Warcraft, the Internet, and VDARE.COM 2008

She also sounded patchy in her middle range, and accompanied her singing with curious arm wavings.

In This Puccini Work, Only a Dream Dies 2009

And then there will be a final smirking, faux-sincere, combative, jokey frat boy, incoherent, mispronounced, self-serving farewell speech before that one last jaunty strut -- arms jutting out from the body to make a little man look bigger, cocky, smirking, maybe a brisk salute or two and some victory signs in among the hand wavings to the assembled White House staff.

Frank Dwyer: Happy Days, and More to Come 2008

The loud rantings and arm wavings of the judges gets to be a bit much.

Dancing with the Stars: 7-6 Results | The Disney Blog 2008

These swan-like arm-wavings of the Shepherd and all his followers, including Roxana, appeared to be the extent of the cult's libertinism and freedom.

The Only Thing That Flows Is the Fountain 2008