Mozart rejected Mannheim gesture in favour of better-integrated dynamics.
In the end, the poet - well-meaning but ill-informed - is finessed by White House staff into abandoning her public "gesture" in favour of a private chat with the president.
Albert's freedom in choosing Elizabeth, not a member of a royal family, though the daughter of a peer, was considered a gesture in favour of political modernisation; previously, princes were expected to marry princesses from other royal families.
She is often at her most striking when she avoids grand, convulsive orchestral gestures in favour of small, intimate groupings.
More importantly, the anti-execution movement has made headway precisely because it has eschewed grand gestures in favour of a case-by-case review of the evidence.
One might hope that, when the Olympics are over, the age of rhetorical gestures will pass, in favour of the less glamorous, more detailed, and more practical.
The magazine added that the game had a "wonderfully ambiguous" story, crafted by replacing dialogue with "artful framing and shrewd gestures, and booting out cutscenes in favour of prickly jump-cuts".
Some of the younger practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic began to de-emphasize text in favour of letterforms and gesture, moving calligraphy in the direction of contemporary painting and drawing.
A recent smartphone camera app developed at the University of California Santa Cruz, for instance, allows photographers with impaired vision to dispense with the shutter button, which many find difficult to locate, in favour of an upward swiping gesture.
In a bid for unity, last week the business secretary Vince Cable floated the possibility that he would abstain, despite admitting that he was in favour of his own proposals, but that gesture was soon withdrawn.
The superficial conventions of Byzantine facial types and gesture persist, but Byzantine linear treatment of draperies is severely reduced in favour of rounded modeling, and the traditional linear definition of facial features is completely abandoned.
