A band belted out Russian and American pop songs while men in well-tailored suits and women in shimmering cocktail dresses danced, wrists twisting in the air, fingers snapping.
I silently applaud (hands raised in the air, fingers spread apart, palms twisting from side to side) the efforts of the Miller family to establish an American Sign Language community in South Dakota.
So off-screen gestures are likely going to need some killer apps to get the users fired up — something that makes mid-air finger wiggling as cool as pinch to zoom was, when that first aired.
Biscuits loaded with sugar are called "light" because they have reduced their proportion of fat (what with the scandal of the air-Fingers on one hand, and McVitie's "lite" digestives on the other, I think we could also make a case for the creation of Ofbiscuit).
Eager to impress his exotic instructor, but hopelessly talentless when it comes to music, Bart fakes his way through a concert by air-fingering to a recording. .
Caroline lies on her back, pedalling her legs in the air, her finger working her nose.
But something in the air – that finger-wagging part of the zeitgeist – quietly warns us to be careful.
The life starts to seep back in when he begins talking, but when he loosely swats the air, his fingers remain splayed as if they had forgotten how to curl into fists.
Yet as he worked his way from a strangled, nasal whine to a shriek, the whole room sang along, and thousands of hands shot into the air with fingers raised on cue: five, six, seven.
Mr. Moussavi used the anniversary as a pretense to call a demonstration, and by midday the streets outside the elaborately tiled mosque were filled with protesters, their arms jabbing the air, their fingers making a "V" symbol, for victory.
" 'But how can I vote for you if I spent four years fighting with the group from your party supporting a bill to benefit gays, thus hurting me?' " MR. MALAFAIA, while stabbing the air with fingers adorned with diamond-encrusted gold rings, delivers such tales in booming Portuguese with a thick Rio accent.
