"IT was an honest gesture at the moment Kris gave it to me, so I feel the ring is mine," said Kim Kardashian, or anyway Metisha Larocca, who happened at that particular moment to be channeling the tabloid staple at an art party staged by MoMA P.S. 1 in the waning hours of Art Basel Miami Beach, the art world's version of a reality television show.
More than any excruciatingly constructed phrases aimed at apologizing to those who have been historically harmed but yet not offending Japanese nationalists -- and thus not at all convincing -- a simple, honest gesture such as Brandt's would speak volumes and melt emotions frozen in time.
"Let's be honest," guard Chris Snee said, gesturing _______ in Little Bear's direction.
"It's been extremely humbling the number of customers who have written to me to thank me for being honest and for the gesture of goodwill".
There are scarce empirical data on patients' perceived purpose of informed consent, which may include administrative routine/courtesy gesture, simple honest permission, informed permission, patient-clinician shared decision-making, and enabling patient's self decision-making.
When the director can't explain himself to a reporter, another, standing alongside, gleefully answers a doubt that's tormented creative individuals since time immemorial: "He has nothing to say!" Fellini's willingness to dramatize these concerns so nakedly is sometimes taken as self-indulgence, but it's possible to view it otherwise, as a gesture that's honest and direct.
They refused to endorse Sen. Amy Klobuchar's bipartisan Honest Ads Act when pressed, gesturing that they would be willing to cooperate on legislation but they'd really prefer to self-govern (since that's gone so well).
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke may just have spoken for many England fans with his now infamous (but let's be honest light-hearted) throat-slitting gesture when Roy Hodgson's team were joined by Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica in their World Cup group.
The purpose of the informed consent process can be envisioned as a spectrum ranging from routine paper work/courtesy gesture, to obtaining honest permission (simple consent), to obtaining informed permission (informed consent), to reaching shared patient-clinician decision-making, to enabling patient's self decision-making.
