He used the figural gesture, often profoundly comic, to taunt the viewer and also to signal faith in the sculptural presence itself.

He still has his figure, his comic gestures, his delivery (clear and energetic).

If his friend Arthur Heath had done that, she would have taken it as a deliberate, comic gesture.

Puit Kjai threw up his hands in a comic gesture of surrender.

But both performers moved well, and their dramatic and comic gestures were skillfully timed.

The comic gesture caused him to really look at himself and his garments for the first time since coming out of the wall.

Instead, the actors sought to express their characters' essences through only a few comic or serious gestures and facial expressions.

As he hands Alice the box, she is surprised to receive the doll, but thinks of it as a comic gesture.

Mr. McCauley has mastered the small yet perfect comic gesture, but his control over a larger canvas is more problematic.

Heartfield's sense of comic gesture could be as sharp as Chaplin's.