Asked to explain what a menacing gesture was, Commissioner David Stern could not.
The next day, the N.B.A. announced Pierce was being fined $25,000 for what the league called a "menacing gesture".
Pierce learned hours before game time that he had been fined $25,000 by the N.B.A. for a "menacing gesture" — allegedly gang-related — during Game 3. Before Wednesday's game, he issued a statement denying it was a gang sign, then went out and put his hands to a more useful purpose.
It is more than just a menacing gesture.
The NBA fined Celtics forward Paul Pierce $25,000 in 2008 for making what the NBA called a "menacing gesture" during a game.
On March 9, as the inquest continued to hear seemingly damning testimony, Putin awarded Lugovoi a medal of honor for services to Russia, in what Emmerson labeled a "menacing gesture of support".
Suleiman, separated from the struggle only by the linen hangings of the tent, peered through the chamber of his tent and "directed fierce and threatening glances upon the mutes, and by menacing gestures sternly rebuked their hesitation.
The brandishing of weapons, whether obviously a weapon, or a makeshift weapon such as pieces of wood, cut glass, broken items that have been sharpened etc. Menacing gestures and attitudes.
Everyone made menacing gestures, and Michael Wall's taped score made menacing noises.
There's menace in his every gesture but what they can't know is that he has recently gunned down three men in what feels like a Hobbesian war of all against all.
