Florestan's characteristic gesture, for instance, is a surge: a crescendo with no corresponding diminuendo.
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In a characteristic gesture, the glass pane is sensuously scarred with acid, and it diffuses a steel section behind into a less assertive, hazier apparition.
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An inexorably growing, eventually unbearable roar, like the one that filled the final scene of his post-apocalyptic 2012 opera "Dog Days," is his most characteristic gesture.
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Physically, "She was a little, brown, thin, almost skinny, woman, with big, rolling, violet-blue eyes and the sweetest manners in the world" ('Three and - an Extra'). A characteristic gesture when she is thinking is to draw the lash of her riding whip between her lips - which may indicate her underlying cruelty. There is something feline about her. Her character is dominated by her cleverness.
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In 1908, Thorne was Baron Popoff in a touring production of The Merry Widow, and his performance, "clothed by his characteristic gesture and mannerism", was praised in the Yorkshire Evening Post."Mr. Eric Thorne" in the Yorkshire Evening Post, 1 December 1908, p. 4 A later theatre history comments that "Thorne made a big hit on tour in George Graves' part of Baron Popoff in The Merry Widow."Forbes-Winslow, D., Daly's: the Biography of a Theatre (London: W. H. Allen, 1944), p.
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104), which uses the same tonic-dominant progression.) The following Sonata-Allegro is dramatic and turbulent. It is characterized by sharp rhythmic formulae (double-dotted rhythms) and by the masterly transformation of the material of the Introduction. The second movement is a scherzo in C major with two trios, whose main portion strongly emphasizes the diminished chord—its characteristic gesture being a rapid and playful resolution of this chord over unstable harmony. The second trio employs the B-A-C-H motif in the context of flowing eighth notes reminiscent of the Baroque, further suggesting that Bach remained on Schumann's mind after the completion of his Op. 60.
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In particular they questioned whether it was fair to allow John Henry Barlow as Clerk, to sign the document himself on behalf of Friends, thus risking his own imprisonment. "At which point John Barlow rose and with his characteristic gesture of drawing himself up and throwing back his shoulders, his voice rang out across that crowded hall – 'Surely at such a time, no one is playing for safety.... [Neither] the Society nor am I concerned with what is safe, but what is true and right and I propose to sign the document.' He signed and read the whole document out aloud ending with the words, 'signed John H Barlow, Clerk'." In 1916 the Government introduced the Military Service Act, by which all British males between the ages of 18 and 41 could be conscripted.
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