Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Obvious Gesture


- Picture from the Vanity Fair article on Osama Bin Laden's assassination.

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.” William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830).

A simple Google search of common hand-on-mouth gestures yielded this link:


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