Here's Trintignant, twirling his walking stick in one hand and gesticulating with the other; taking issue with this and that.
We will kill them in front of their students, and tell the students to henceforth study the Qur'an," he said, gesticulating energetically while dressed in military fatigues and a traditional hat.
Mr Berlusconi then attempted to play down the incident, saying his remark had been "ironic" and accusing Mr Schulz of being offensive: "He was gesticulating and he used a tone of voice which is not acceptable in a parliament," he said.
Like a moth to the flame, Monis rushed out to the assembled media and stood gesticulating, long robes fluttering, proclaiming dramatically: "This pen is my gun and these words are my bullets".
We have forgotten since then how the ranks of the parliamentary Conservative party – though not all by any means – were cheerleaders for the war, and I can remember them standing in their seats baying, bragging and gesticulating at Kennedy as he walked in.
The picture I can still see in my mind's eye is of a dancing, gesticulating thing with a human face and cat's ears, its body furred like a bear.
But as he talked, you couldn't help noticing his hands: the long, thin fingers fluttering, locking, unlocking, gesticulating, as if he could flip cards and slip knots in his sleep.The vanishing bandHis first trick was learned, at five, from a column in the Times of India.
A WHITE woman in the fluorescent-yellow jacket of a freelance parking attendant steps into the road, gesticulating at an empty bay outside a restaurant in Johannesburg's rich northern suburbs, as black drivers in luxurious German cars swish past, their darkened windows sealed against the chill evening air.
Wearing a tight suit, he paces up and down, gesticulating and accentuating his words, then drilling them home with a sadistic smile.
And yet, about half- way through the book there begin to be wonderful glimpses of him through the eyes of his friends: vital, voluble, gesticulating, nervous and excitable, his English heavily accented, his face leathery, piratical.
Then, after news of the poor caucus showing came in, Mr Dean attempted to rally supporters by delivering a red-faced, gesticulating rant, ending in a banshee-like scream.
