"I 'know' it because the poem itself sedulously refuses to pose a question, frame a conclusion … The feel is of something broken off, bitten back … the rhetorical figure that gestures towards something by looking away".
It gestured towards something we had not seen before in DeLillo, something generous, populist and, well, not unlike Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, which when it appeared in 2001 was called "DeLillo Lite".
Just as I was starting to tire, Steve gestured excitedly towards something off to our right.
Rather than find an existing style that suited her project, she embarked on an individual quest to locate, as she put it in her first novel, "the symbol of the thing in the thing itself": the word that doesn't merely gesture towards something, but becomes it.
Each track on the album represents a story from Nadus' life in Newark, but they gesture towards something greater than an autobiographical tale; taken as a whole, Broke City is a soundtrack to solving America's issues with urban blight, minorities having pride in themselves and their communities, and a powerful ode to the past, present and future of club music.
"Maybe it was something to do with all the guns," I suggest, gesturing towards the fleet of heavily-armed pick-up trucks lined up outside that the men arrived in.
"Yeah," she says, gesturing towards her breasts.
"Definitely," says Leithauser, gesturing towards Batmanglij.
"That's the Tory HQ," said one, gesturing towards Millbank Tower.
"Over there," says Jim, gesturing towards the nearer shore.
