Mozart rejected Mannheim gesture in favour of better-integrated dynamics.
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.
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.
The finding of a similar response to robot and to human stimuli in this region argues in favour of a fully integrated representation of gestures, as both types of stimuli are similar in most respects but the appearance of the agent depicting the 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that he would abstain, despite admitting that he was in favour of his own proposals, but that gesture was soon withdrawn.
A 2014 Indian Supreme Court judgment in favour of transgender rights showed what one legal scholar, gesturing to Nepali and Pakistani court cases, called "the possibility of developing a unique South Asian jurisprudence on transgender rights".
Traktor DJ ditches the idea of virtual decks in favour of getting you hands-on with songs' waveforms via some inventive multi-gesture controls.
