Every twitch, blink, shrug, head bob and seat shift speaks softly at first and then with increasing volume, giving physical form to the inner voice we actually hear only later.
You started tuning out and relying on stock facial mannerisms: the crinkly eyed grin, or the shrug, head slightly inclined, the rat-trap mouth, lips pursed in annoyance, or slightly goofy laugh, with the tongue pressed slightly against the upper teeth.
Back on Second Avenue, he shrugged and headed south.
The students left the grotto just as those locked out of the classroom now shrugged and headed for the exits: coolly, as if this outcome had been their choice.
"It was only a single decker," she shrugged, before heading home to David and his special tea of pasta avec fromage with cheap vodka shots and guilt oozing from her every pore.
"No, no," her mother said, shrugging her head and shoulders in marvelous Gallic fashion.
He was in hotel lobbies and arena corridors, his hands gesturing, his shoulders shrugging, his head nodding as he spoke with general managers, coaches, reporters and agents.
Why haven't they given you a proper job, I ask Les, and he shrugs his head but elsewhere people mutter: it's friends of the managers who get the jobs.
So, I sighed, shrugged, bowed my head to Cancer Standard Time... and headed to the den to take a nap.
"Yes, you need a bit of luck," Head shrugged.
Asked when they took effect, Schabowski shrugged, scratched his head, checked some papers, and said, "Immediately," sending thousands of East Berliners to the wall in a human tide that the German Democratic Republic could not control.
