Lauder rocked back on his heels very slightly and raised his arms at the elbow, in a mild gesture of delight.
And what can be a mild gesture in one culture can, with a variation, carry a different meaning in another: when Justice Antonin Scalia a few years ago gave a chin flick— fingers under the chin, flipping outward — he explained it as a Sicilian gesture meaning "I couldn't care less.
In actuality, peaceful interactions are far more frequent than aggressive ones; mild threatening gestures are more common than vigorous ones; threats per se occur much more often than fights; and serious, wounding fights are very rare compared to brief, relatively mild ones".
The animals noticed spout removal with mild body gestures.
"No, I'd like to see them in place, if you don't mind," said Dan with a mild insistence, gesturing for the trees to be hoisted into place.
Although he's a typical computer-generated mild marvel, with fluid gestures and a believable physiognomy, Paul proves the weak link.
In Mr. Cloepfil's hands, the same gesture is mild and timid.
The would-be actor's one gesture of mild rebellion was to forego a career in the family sporting-goods store and to enrol in summer stock.
Mol, Krahmer, and van de Sandt-Koenderman (2013) found that of 26 speakers with aphasia, those with mild aphasia produced co-speech gestures that were more comprehensible than those with severe aphasia.
While I'm still in love with the ironical gesture and its mild but wholly satisfying orneriness and freedom in the face of so much conformity and New Jersey housewife opulence, I can't pull it off anymore.
