The forefinger with which he once angered Libyans by wagging at them in threatening TV broadcasts is gone, severed, he says, in a Nato bombing.
He introduced a distinctive two-finger style, with the thumb moving downward and the forefinger moving upward, that contrasted with the traditional downward-moving clawhammer stroke.
The forefinger of his left hand is hooked over the shaft of the trombone, and its long descending slide becomes another elegant angle in the composition.
They forbid people to vote, chopping off the forefinger of anyone carrying the black indelible ink mark given at the voting booths.
When she did, it appeared that he had moved the forefinger on his left hand, the hand that had remained paralyzed.
"They were killed because of the random shelling of the Baba Amr neighborhood," Mr. Salah said, angrily shaking the forefinger of his one good hand at the camera; his other hand, wounded by shrapnel, was bandaged.
(Once, in London, I spent an afternoon in Beckett's company, watching him direct "Endgame". He stood with his back to the actors, listening to the words and keeping time with the forefinger of his right hand).
(Knuckling is the act of placing a marble on the forefinger, balancing that finger or the bottom of the hand against the ground, and shooting the marble outward with the thumb).
The forefinger is used to control rotation.
Theranos uses a blood-warming packet applied to the forefinger.
