He was very histrionic, with his stabbing finger, sweeping arm and manic stare.
And the hand or finger, sweeping down the page, was used to "pace" the eyes at increasingly faster speeds, while the reader was urged to concentrate not on single words but on groups of words -- sentences, clauses and the like -- that make up units of thought.
Even during the hushed, prestissimo passages of Liszt's Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, when the hands of this chunky, laconic young man were just a blur of fingers sweeping the keyboard, his sound was velvety and lush.
Once he had his arrangement on paper — and in his fingers, since sweeping is above all a function of motor memory — Mr. Chang decided to publish his work.
When I visited a small village in northwest Morocco this summer, I was enchanted by the sight of a group of women at a food cooperative, sitting on the floor with their legs outstretched, expertly mixing water with semolina, then raking the grain with their fingers in sweeping circular motions as they prepared couscous from scratch.
If you are faced with a broken FL or CFL of any kind, just don't lick your fingers after sweeping up the broken glass and phosphor powder with your bare hands.
These battles are the bulk of gameplay, combining defence and attack, with finger-sweeping parries and well-timed blocks required to set you up for a frenzy of sword-slashing.
He snapped his fingers in a sweeping gesture, like a lounge singer, to indicate that he wanted a scene to be a fraction of a second shorter.
"The Arabs are buried over there," said Mohammed Zahir, sweeping his finger toward a swath of broken earth at the rear of the cemetery.
Then, sweeping his finger in a wide arc, Mr. Gates added, "If you evaluate that we need a big adjustment, tell me, and I'll make it, so we don't disappoint any more".
The land-shaping can be frustrating too: often it works beautifully, with delicate flicks of your finger on the touchscreen sweeping away a layer of landscape in a neat curve.
