On his way to breaking López for a 5-3 lead, he even congratulated his opponent on an excellent serve – a gesture that left the Spaniard fixed to the turf.
But it is a day when the distant wail of firetruck sirens sound ominous, nerves grow raw and viewers become hypersensitive to the misplaced word or self-serving gesture.
Perhaps this is unfair on my part, but the conspicuous political act of publicly expunging that stain – as if it would somehow 'undo' the crime – feels uncomfortably like a self-serving gesture, a way of drawing a line under an embarrassing period in our history and moving on as though everything were fixed.
The community activists who wrote the amendment, which was approved in a public vote in late 1986, called the council's offer a "self-serving gesture" and a "sham". They charge that the incumbents are improperly furthering their own interests by using city money to obtain a court ruling on the amendment.
The strong degree of right-hand preference reported for communicative gestures in infants and toddlers, and in particular for pointing gestures serving complex functions (Cochet and Vauclair 2010), supports this hypothesis.
In addition to serving as a powerful gesture to the families of the dead rescue workers, the extra money may have a lasting financial impact.
For some, the report will be an underwhelming and ineffectual gesture, only serving to demonstrate that the "omerta" - cycling's code of silence - lives on.
The gesture served a musical purpose, enabling her to bow her electric guitar like a cello.
He charged into the service box to return Thiem's second serve, a flickering gesture of defiance.
Ms. McCormick-Sakurai thought a blessing of all the animals in the park could serve as a gesture of conciliation and healing.
"Marble Arm," a life-sized arm and hand, its middle finger stretched upward in a vulgar gesture, served as a small symbol of dissent at the booth of Galerie Urs Meile, which has branches in Switzerland and Beijing.
