Now 41, but showing no signs of surrendering her youthful feistiness, Ramsay is entertaining company, whether talking about the art films she loves – by Bergman, Cassavetes, Fassbinder – or railing against the "bullshitters and backstabbers" of the film industry.
"Peacefully, peacefully," he said, raising his hands in a sign of surrender.
Some witnesses initially said that Brown put his hands up in a sign of surrender before Wilson shot him.
When Japan showed no sign of surrender, a pilot, Major Charles Sweeney, was sent back with a second bomb.
Alex Rodriguez took it for strike three, immediately flipping his bat toward the Yankees' dugout in a sign of surrender.
He says he could easily spend his days playing tennis and enjoying life, but there is little sign of surrender.
Male devotees shave their heads, leaving only a small tuft of hair called a sikha, a sign of surrender to their teacher.
Later, with their agreement, I hung from the northern wing of the castle a white flag as a sign of surrender.
Far more importantly, any such gesture, however it is dressed up, would be seen as a sign of surrender by IRA hard-liners.
They come from a world where compromise is a sign of surrender, and where one side's gain is another's loss.
