He likes the device of interpreting a gesture to deepen our understanding of a character: "From Mme.
The officer confronted him in the bathroom and shot him, after he mistakenly interpreted a gesture as Mr. Graham reaching for a gun, according to the officer's account to the grand jury.
The Pope was in the city on a visit that the junta were keen to interpret as a gesture of support.
When Steve Case, boss of AOL, wore a tie at the announcement of his firm's purchase of Time Warner a year ago, it was interpreted as a gesture to reassure Time workers.
Both Wen and Zhao were photographed visiting with demonstrators, an act interpreted as a gesture of support for the protestors' cause.
Earlier in December, the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, became the first Arab League leader to visit Syria in eight years, a visit widely interpreted as a gesture of friendship on behalf of Saudi Arabia, which has shored up ties with Khartoum in recent years.
It has been variously interpreted as a gesture of purification, as the most efficient means of releasing the soul from the corrupted body, as a public health measure with important ecological benefits in a crowded country, or as a symbol of the transitory nature of any particular life and the desire that it should end in permanent anonymity.
Palestinian officials and spokesmen for Hamas both reported that more than 30 Hamas members had been taken into custody by the Palestinian Authority in the last two days, a move that was widely interpreted as a gesture toward Israeli and American demands for tighter controls on armed Palestinian militants.
Tapping the German chancellor's cell phone cannot be interpreted as a gesture of friendship.
This sum can only be interpreted as a gesture and not as full compensation, but the willingness to make up for the past is undeniably there.
But a recipient reading the small print may interpret it as a gesture of contempt.
