Beijing's on-going crackdown in Tibet has brought about something that China's leaders didn't expect but should have predicted--a grassroots movement of solidarity among Tibetans, and with it, a seemingly limitless number of men and women willing to risk imprisonment and even death for a single gesture of freedom.
The representation of motor knowledge for hand-arm gestures is a hierarchical structure comprising different levels of abstraction, starting from the form of single gesture performances in terms of movement trajectories and leading into less contextualized motor levels, toward meaning.
English speakers, for example, typically combine both the manner of motion (for example, running) and the path of motion (for example, entering) into a single gesture.
More interestingly, people could represent complex relational structures within the confines of a single gesture.
There, in a single gesture, lies the conundrum of the movie.
The slang expression "whatever" distills the essential situation into a single gesture.
In contrast, no studies have detected the hallmark of cultural acquisition of signals: many gestures used extensively or universally within a single group or local population, but not elsewhere (for cases of single gestures that appear to be acquired culturally, see de Waal and Seres 1997; McGrew and Tutin 1978; Nishida 1980).
In the midst of it all, a single gesture inspired me to begin a non-profit sponsoring effort for the Berkeley/Oakland area.
I don't believe Shakiha was able to give Liam a ranking, but this single gesture should qualify him for the taxi passenger Hall of Fame.
Writing in the Journal of British Cinema and Television in 2006, Greg M. Smith analysed the development of the David character over the course of Series 4, including the fantasy scene in this episode where David imagines living with Karen in Australia, and the scene where David and Karen take off their wedding rings: "Old, exhausted love is traded for new, vibrant love in this single gesture.
