While religious conservatives wring their hands in a gesture of concern, the black irony of the whole debacle is that their pathological fixation on sexuality stigmatises the very youth they ostensibly care for.
But after he slips the powder into his co-worker's coffee, Anthony has a change of heart when Dougie walks up behind him and begins touching his shoulders in what seems like a gesture of concern and affection.
Not once did I see a gesture of concern about my physical well-being or hear the words "I'm sorry" or "Are you okay?" Under my breath, an involuntary word erupted but we kept on walking.
When the movie was shown at the AFI Film Festival in June, the filmmakers dedicated the program to this city "in a gesture of concern and healing". Roodt acknowledges dramatic differences between South Africa and Los Angeles but points to some parallels as well.
They were also given a single $500 travel voucher "as a gesture of our concern" over their treatment in India.
But VeriChip also says that it intends to build the market with voluntary programs like VeriMed, a gesture to privacy concerns that has done little to mollify critics.
The movement encompasses the territory of death salons and death cafés — events where people gather to share in contemplating mortality — and of natural or green burials, in which the unembalmed dead are laid to rest in biodegradable coffins, or with no coffin at all, in a gesture of environmental concern and as an avowal that the human body, like any other meat, is subject to rot.
And one does find exceptions to the public behavior described here--an open and friendly smile, a gesture of personal concern, a supererogatory act of courtesy--but those encounters are notable precisely for their singularity.
China has allowed its currency to rise by a fraction of a percentage point in the last few days, apparently as a gesture to address American concerns that when the yuan is valued low against the dollar, exports are artificially cheap and imports artificially expensive.
In a subsequent statement, Wheaton College President Dr. Philip Ryken said, "The College has no stated position on the wearing of headscarves as a gesture of care and concern for those in Muslim or other religious communities that may face discrimination or persecution".
