Foster Lukuklu Frayne made a sign over his heart with his two linked thumbs: I recognized it as an ancient Manu gesture intended to propitiate the Devil.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

He wondered what expression, as he made that gesture, was on his face.

" and made his own frantic hand gesture: " Here's a finger for you!

" Videotapes of the incident are inconclusive as to whether Mason's upswept hand was intended to be an indecent gesture ( as Mason's fingers are just barely off-camera ), but Sullivan's body language immediately afterward made it clear that he was convinced of it, despite Mason's panic-stricken denials later, claiming that he did not know what the " middle finger " meant, and that he did not make the gesture anyways.

Indeed, as Edward Muir points out, “ by the sixteenth century virtually every word, gesture and act that the doge made in public was subject to legal and ceremonial regulation ”.

In the 1950s, the Armour Hot Dog Co. purified 1 kg of pure bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A and made it freely available to scientists ; this gesture helped ribonuclease A become a major target for biochemical study for the following decades.

" Wittgenstein was insisting that a proposition and that which it describes must have the same ' logical form ', the same ' logical multiplicity ', Sraffa made a gesture, familiar to Neapolitans as meaning something like disgust or contempt, of brushing the underneath of his chin with an outward sweep of the finger-tips of one hand.

Steiner made it clear, however, that the resulting movement for the renewal of Christianity, which became known as " The Christian Community ", was a personal gesture of help to a movement founded by Rittelmeyer and others independently of the Anthroposophical Society.

He bowed three times to various sections of Fenway Park and made an obscene gesture.

In 1983, Searle told to The New York Review of Books a remark on Derrida allegedly made by Michel Foucault in a private conversation with Searle himself ; Derrida later despised Searle's gesture as gossip, and also condemned as violent the use of a mass circulation magazine to fight an academic debate.

* Betting actions without a verbal declaration must be made in a single motion or gesture (" no string bet " rule ).

As a goodwill gesture, Concord honored the unfulfilled contractual promises Fantasy made nearly forty years earlier, finally paying the band a higher royalty rate on their sales.

This interview is riveting, as Lanzmann tries to clarify how often he made this gesture.

In sheer contrast with Hiller's gesture, Masséna, although in significant pain, made arrangements to lead his men in battle from a phaeton and vowed to retain his command, much to the Emperor's relief.

Though his relationship with the pope was rocky, Guiscard preferred to be on good terms with the papacy and he made a gesture of abandoning his first wife in response to church law.

The vacunao can also be expressed with a sudden gesture made by the hand or foot.

The " war chant " cheer made by spectators at FSU football games includes the " tomahawk chop ", a gesture invented by the fans.

The finger is similar to a gesture made by knights in the Medieval Era, in which they raised their lances upright towards each other.

In an act of defiance, the English soldiers supposedly made the gesture with their middle fingers towards the French.

Richard Nixon made this gesture while in a Latin American country in the 1950s.

The gesture is typically made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers.

It is said that they knelt down three times as the Pope made the sign of the cross with a sweeping gesture extending from one end of the mountain to the other.

The astonishing sessions that went light years beyond " free jazz " improvisation to create a music of deeply felt explosive and gentle gesture made from sound itself without reference to previous notions of melody or harmony.

In Laos, the administration looked at the Eisenhower administration efforts to show determination by sailing a naval fleet into Southeast Asian waters as a useless gesture.

Then she jerked her thumb toward the door in a very American gesture, and dropped into Navy slang.

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information ( for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture ) into another form or representation ( one sign into another sign ), not necessarily of the same type.

Clark wears his Superman costume underneath his street clothes, allowing easy changes between the two personae — and the dramatic gesture of ripping open his shirt to reveal the familiar " S " emblem when called into action.

The European formal greeting from used from men to women can be transformed into an obeisance gesture by holding the suzerain's hand with both hands.

* Code, a rule for converting a piece of information ( for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture ) into another form or representation ( one sign into another sign ), not necessarily of the same type

Sickert's earliest major works, dating from the late 1880s, were portrayals of scenes in London music halls, often depicted from complex and ambiguous points of view, so that the spatial relationship between the audience, performer and orchestra becomes confused, as figures gesture into space and others are reflected in mirrors.

Likewise, Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh ( Hebrew: " causing to forget ") as a gesture of forgiveness to his brothers for selling him into slavery.

The assembly is complete once all castellers have climbed into their designated places, and the enxaneta climbs into place at the top and raises one hand with four fingers erect, in a gesture said to symbolize the stripes of the Catalan flag.

Assimilationists suggest that if a society makes a full effort to incorporate immigrants into the mainstream, immigrants will then naturally work to reciprocate the gesture and adopt new customs.

Second is a rejection of the modernist " Utopian gesture ", evident in Van Gogh, of the transformation through art of misery into beauty whereas in the postmodernism movement the object world has undergone a " fundamental mutation " so that it has " now become a set of texts or simulacra " ( Jameson 1993: 38 ).

During the last mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, STS-134, a five-star insignia of Arnold's preserved in the National Museum of the United States Air Force was carried into space by shuttle pilot Gregory H. Johnson as a commemorative gesture to Arnold's legacy.

The gesture for Respect is to weave your fingers into the fingers of the person who is receiving the kandi.

When put together, the Xs turned into the images of man and woman from the plaque, along with an extraterrestrial humanoid raising a hand in a peaceful gesture.

Some governments in exile develop into a formidable force, posing a serious challenge to the incumbent regime of the country, while others are maintained chiefly as a symbolic gesture.

… I do promise, vow and swear that I will maintain inviolate secrecy about each and every thing brought to my knowledge in the performance of my aforesaid function, excepting only what may happen to be lawfully published when this process is concluded and put into effect … and that I will never directly or indirectly, by gesture, word, writing or in any other way, and under any pretext, even that of a greater good or of a highly urgent and serious reason, do anything against this fidelity to secrecy, unless special permission or dispensation is expressly granted to me by the Supreme Pontiff.

According to one account, the audience broke into spontaneous applause at the coming of " light " and " Papa " Haydn, in a typical gesture weakly pointed upwards and said: " Not from me — everything comes from up there!

Under the Packer family The Bulletin remained politically conservative, but rejoined the political and journalistic mainstream, as a well-edited magazine ( modelled on Time ) of political and business news and commentary, with occasional forays into literature as a gesture to its past.

One spoonful will be thrown into the fire, which acts as a symbolic gesture to feed the spirits of their ancestors.

For example, a gesture that depicts the act of throwing may be synchronous with the utterance, " He threw the ball right into the window.

The gesture marked the reunion of the feuding nWo factions into one.