finger-pointy

Example Sentences

• "“She had gold teeth in front, wore a long braid and spoke in argumentative, finger-pointy Cantonese,” Olivia [Wu] remembers."
• "Eight Hardcore ditties from Belfast’s Spindrift, with a sort of Biohazard/ S.O.I.A vibe… actually, I know fuck all about Hardcore (preferring devil-signs to finger-pointy theatrics), so I’m not sure how to describe this in relation to other acts of that genre."
• "We pile back into the wagon and head south on I-81 a while more, Mother serving as guide, just as cheerful and finger-pointy as the microphone lady standing at the front of a Tyler rose garden tour bus."
• "It was a firetrap waiting to happen, really, so in a way Caroline may have saved Ursula’s life by burning the teeny garment to ashes before the sweater actually spontaneously combusted sometime in the future. Which was what Caroline explained to the approximately forty-five firemen who seemed to appear instantly and were getting all finger-pointy and screamy and stuff, not flirty like they are on TV at all, while they were all scowling and fanning the smoke out of their eyes and stepping from island to island among the lakes of water that the stupid drama-queen sprinklers had flooded the place with."
• "He smiled – just a little one – in my direction before declaring to the room that we would all touch base at ten for a staff meeting and we would see where we could move on from there to get the Star in NorthStar up and shining again. He finished this with a wink and a weird finger-pointy thing and walked on."
• "The furious exchange that followed, with Barber tottering over to the judges' table all finger-pointy and teary, for a moment looked like it might turn into a pub catfight."