At the end of "Othello," as Desdemona lies smothered on the conjugal bed, the warrior Moor turns to his assembled officers with the full knowledge that the deeds of valor which won him fame as a general for the Venetian state will forever be overshadowed by his mad gesture of jealousy.
The nun lifted Annie's hand from her hair — it was a mad, dramatic gesture that would lead to mad, dramatic speech — and placed it once again on her middle, where her thoughts should be.
"He could see all of this for what it was," Nunn writes of his main character, "the half-mad quixotic gesture better dreamt than executed because well … because that was what life was like in the end.
"I'm not mad," he said, gesturing to where his children had slept and describing how happy they were when he showed up to take them fishing or down to the ice cream store.
Everyone agrees that Mad Men is astute with gesture, it is nuance galore.
As the unhinged title character of "Hamlet," at the Harman Center for the Arts here, Michael Urie seems not so much mad as madcap, with eccentrically extravagant gestures that Auntie Mame might envy.
When a user opens the app, their face appears beneath a gesture-tracking mask, which records how their facial gestures indicate being sad, mad, calm or ecstatic.
Hitting the favorite button on the first episode of "Mad Men" is a remarkably different gesture than expressing digital solidarity with kidnapped children in Africa, but it all sort of looks the same at the keyboard.
Morris challenged the throng: "Brooklyn in the house?" Holman screamed at the screen's projection of Whitman's "Meddlesome, mad, extravagant city!," his face reddening and gestures widening.
But Jaguar, which orchestrated a loose, convivial social-media campaign around the Jaguar story arc in the fifth season of AMC's "Mad Men" earlier this year, sees strength in small gestures.
