Prices are written in marker on gaffer's tape stuck to the shoe bottoms, a rough-edged gesture in an otherwise pristine store.
In other places, the music grew note-filled and surging, its textures rough and its gestures fast and intense, a little like Miles Davis's 1970 band, with Keith Jarrett on electric piano; the soloists worked up to learned, agitated attacks of chromatic playing.
Mayor William J. Gaynor, angered at the rough treatment Frick's gesture had received, said he was going to demolish the Arsenal because it was "unsanitary and unfit".
Through extensive software work, Microsoft has managed to smooth some of the very rough edges that still accompany gesture technology.
Are we meant to see Ruth's decision to abandon her academic husband and apparently agree to service his rough, working-class family as a gesture of feminist defiance or sexual submission?
But mainly he drew from "Blunderbuss" (Columbia), his first proper solo album, crowded with songs of misused trust and outrageous hunger, and full of small, shivery gestures that approximate the rough feel of spontaneity.
She showed me the bathroom and gestured above her where a rough paint job barely concealed signs of earlier damage.
Mr. Adams, a private man, was uncomfortable with public-relations gestures, and he could display a rough edge.
Worst heartfelt gesture All in all, it was a rough Olympics for Cuba, no longer the overachieving sports power of yore.
Danny Ayalon and Israel have had a rough time with Turkey of late -- and the gesture from Turkey and the thanks from Ayalon and the Israeli government are important.
