He films spectacular pageantry with an eye to what it conceals, sees surfaces as inseparable from the depths below, and so, captures the historical implications of seemingly trivial intimate gestures.
When challenged later, Mr. Said, who had been on a trip with his family at the time, dismissed the action as trivial, "a symbolic gesture of joy" that Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon had ended.
He recalls, "I was on the stairs, and I heard Maria giving very specific notes to Jessica Lange — trivial stuff about the gestures and the laugh.
Dr. Said, who was traveling with his family at the time, dismissed the action as trivial, calling it a "symbolic gesture of joy" that Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon had ended.
There are stories in the book by kids who were saved by something as seemingly trivial as a kind word or gesture from a single teacher.
We might think the little token gesture of equal marriage trivial in the face of global warming, mass starvation, the banking crisis, the war of rival imperialisms – but the pope knows the truth.
Writing is, among other things, a gesture of faith in the value of the apparently trivial details, and details can be transformed into art.
