Her use of understated gestures and the clustering and separation of bodies expresses not only complex emotions but also whole historical eras.
Among curators and other art world people, Eliasson is known both for his politeness and modesty, and when you meet him, his straightforwardness and grace – I've never heard someone sound so sincere when accepting compliments – strike you immediately as all of a piece with his nubby Scandinavian clothes, his understated gestures, his instinctively democratic manner.
"From his understated gestures to his cocky-modest smile, from his twirl of the club as a perfect shot hangs in mid-flight to the image Sunday evening of his huge hug with his father beside the 18th green at Congressional Country Club, he makes us think, 'There's the real thing'".
Mr. Wosner tended to understate gestures often stressed or overstated: those deep, rumbling trills that interrupt the opening melody, the startling shift into C sharp minor at the development section.
Great for making a heartfelt but understated romantic gesture, without costing a bomb, they also taste really, really good.
The madness is credible for being understated, small gestures create symbolic images: Elvira slowly crushing her wedding flowers, her dizzy spinning making torn prayerbook pages float in the rush of air.
Here, Peter Scolari plays the lead role of Pseudolus, a slave who desires above all else to gain his freedom, in an engaging performance that is deadpan and droll, filled with understated comic gestures and low-key asides that work well in Bay Street's intimate space.
She creates the movie's best moment, a quiet one with a superbly understated delivery and gesture — and her acceptance speech, with its apt praise for the art of acting, was moving.
Similarly aesthetic touches are evident in aspects of the software too, whether it's Jolla's calendar app with its subtle flip animation that turns Sunday to Monday as you scroll, or the dual-dial interface in the Jolla clock app for setting a timer by positioning two glowing beads within two concentric circles, or the understated double tap gesture that can be used to wake the phone from sleep.
"Brother, I'm Dying," in its cool, understated way, begins to gesture in that direction.
