It seemed as if, without ever looking at them, she was telling them emphatically, "No!" Then, however, she held that open-armed pose extraordinarily still, until it became expressive of something that went far beyond mere contradiction: a drastic solipsism whereby she built up the forces for the solo that was to follow.
Mr Borg wanted to continue charging entrance fees and said so, emphatically, in public; Chris Smith, then culture secretary, disagreed vehemently.
Then emphatically, "Once".
In the proposal, Posnanski then emphatically, even ardently, tried to reassure the Paternos.
They were then emphatically beaten in their first match at the finals, clobbered 3-0 by Portugal.
By recklessly pursuing Monica Lewinsky and then emphatically denying it, Mr Clinton knew he was endangering the whole programme on which he was elected.
And he did, first with a collection of chiffon layers and then, emphatically, with a show based on silk fringe and a starkly drawn silhouette.
Unlike his brother, whose melodious patter recalls a quizzical owl cocking its head, Skepta is purely determined: problems are aired with a slight upward inflection, then emphatically solved with a downward one.
Welsh opinion also took longer to embrace devolution — heavily rejecting Jim Callaghan's version in 1979 before narrowly endorsing Tony Blair's in 1997, and then emphatically approving further powers in 2011.
