Here his polished charm and clean, expansive gestures keep us from ever recoiling from Denny, no matter how destructively he behaves.
The Africans, used to expressing their grief physically, toss their heads and thrust their torsos, dancing with a loose-limbed, unbridled vitality that contrasts with the clean, controlled gestures and the restrained pain of the Westerners.
Making big, clean-cut gestures that bring to mind someone signaling an airplane by semaphore, Ms. Hodges works hard to fill the contours of an outsize personality.
Instead, there were clean, bold architectural gestures: a compass sweep to trace the exaggerated roundness of jodhpur pants; a cumulus of full skirt; perforated suede to prove the house skill with leather.
"We mostly stick to the streets," I said, gesturing to the clean bikes on the back of our Explorer.
"Well, I'm cooped up, with no cross breeze, but I like the view — it's kind of clean and open," she said, gesturing over the low roof of an elementary school across the street to the John Hancock Building and the new Prudential Tower.
Of all the places we visited, it was both the most American in execution, European in design, and un-Vegas feeling, swapping ostentatious gestures for simple, clean design, and allowing in the sun and real daylight (enough to recommend it alone in my view).
Again, these can be simple, clean movements or elaborate emphatic gestures.
"You didn't need to go to all this trouble," he said, gesturing around at the clean apartment.
