There is the man anxious and bespectacled (Jean-Laurent Sasportes) who races through the café knocking away chairs and tables in case someone might get hurt or the second woman (Nazareth Pandero) in a red wig who ineffectually gestures kindly intentions but is unable to attract any notice At first sight this piece looks bleak, a forensically pared down study of lost souls.
For instance, as I sat down at the now-liberated airport restaurant table -- gingerly, due to a sore knee -- the woman kindly gestured to me to hand her the plug to my laptop so that she could plug it into the wall and save me from the chore of limping around the table.
A kindly gesture, but not much use.
Our kindly gesture would bring good karma.
But as a kindly gesture, they wrap the canine ordure in coloured polythene.
That mosaic, once a restorative gesture by a kindly benefactor, has become a monument to the man Lerner never became.
Richard has invited along his less successful sister, Angela, and her family, as a kindly gesture in the wake of their mother's death.
Theater for a New Audience presents a revival of Edward Bond's rarely produced vision of an Orwellian world in which a kindly gesture brings unexpected consequences (1 30).
Before the event Bannister came up to him and advised him to "run his own race" (it was probably a kindly gesture, but it could also have been telling him to stay out of their way).
Perhaps it would be no more than a kindly bourgeois gesture, the sort his own wealthy father had made when he went, each Sunday, to wash and shave the poor in the shelters of Lyon.His colleagues were a strange, quarrelsome band, ex-cons and ex-legionnaires, some of whom had been homeless themselves.
