Over more than six months, Trump has given Cruz room to show his human side, that he, Cruz, is a mensch, a kinder soul, a more sensitive person, and someone who can favor simple language and plain talk over high oratory and excess hand gestures.
Try talking without excess hand gestures.
But Webern practiced an art of paring music of excess, of making each gesture, however minimal, expressive and significant.
For a brief moment, donning a toga and drinking to wild excess could be considered a revolutionary gesture.
A final fleeting image from the 1998 Academy Awards: Italian actor Roberto Benigni accepted two Oscars for Life Is Beautiful, physically gesturing with exuberant "dramatic" excess.
'What we're doing with this food is not an answer,' says Dave. 'But it is at least a gesture against the waste and excess.' 'And, besides,' said Cuthbert, 'we're skint.
You couldn't accuse Cser of holding back his enthusiasm for the finale of Brahms's Symphony: he's full of big, wild gestures that teeter on the edge of excess.
So it is a mistake, a hyperbolical gesture, to view the 20s as one of those regular episodes of excess that seem to mark American economic life.
"Killer Joe," with its stereotypes spread across twice as many characters and hollow gestures toward a social context, is an even blunter, more self-indulgent exercise in excess.
He is not one to indulge in Romantic excess, yet the clarity of the playing he encouraged did not come at the expense of the music's grander gestures.
There's no flamboyance or manneristic excess in his performance; he simply spins along in his own snug groove, daring to do too little, building Jung gesture by gesture, inflection by carefully shaded inflection.
