president, Lamine Diack, made the unusual gesture of sharing the head table with the 100-meter medalists at a news conference Sunday (even if no one directed any questions at him).
It is no coincidence that Lamine Diack, president of the I.A.A.F., track and field's world governing body, made the unusual gesture of sharing the head table with the 100-meter medalists at Sunday's news conference (even if no one directed any questions to him).
We would take our shoes off; the men in our group would occupy the front row—"it's a warrior culture, and big on testosterone," he explained with the women behind them; there would be some nose-pressing (but not nose-rubbing), a symbolic gesture of sharing one's breath, and therefore merging one's spirit, with that of our hosts and no English at all would be spoken within the sacred precincts.
Dr. Allam sees no harm in a kind human gesture of sharing joy and comfort in these difficult times.
Through the basic gesture of sharing words and images, Ono's project ensures that women are heard as well as seen. .
Were you personally to decide, as a symbolic gesture, to share compensation of 10CentsPerCup of coffee, tea and cacao with the communities that produce them, this could end up being a watershed moment that transforms the neo-colonial and exploitative business models of these and other industries.
This suggests that, in the language of neurologically healthy people, it is common for verbal language and gesture to share the semantic burden and moreover to take turns at carrying relatively more semantic weight.
In the attempt to endow artificial embodied agents with similar abilities, we present a probabilistic model for the integration of perception and generation of hand-arm gestures via a hierarchy of shared motor representations, allowing for combined bottom-up and top-down processing.
Two experiments show that speakers change the orientation of their gestures depending on the location of shared space, that is, the intersection of the gesture spaces of the speakers and addressees.
When I can remember that the smallest things make the largest impact, a kind word, pat on the arm, gesture of our shared humanity, or if I am unable to muster that, a quick prayer of goodwill, healing, hope, then I have contributed to healing.
For all the language of fairness and the gestures towards shared pain, it's already clear the balance of cuts and tax changes mean lower and middle income earners will feel the real pinch and those on benefits will take the greatest hit of all.
