This is just a quirky little video of the newsreader's scenes in HBO's hit show Rome. Made purely for entertainment and comedic purposes, I do not own the co...
OUR PRESIDENT
JOSEPH arm gesture ROBINETTE arm gesture BIDEN arm gesture
If the first finger touch the middle of the right-hand edge of the thumb-nail with its extremity, the other fingers being relaxed, we shall have a graceful gesture well suited to express approval or to accompany statements of facts, and to mark the distinction between our different points. 102 There is another gesture not unlike the preceding, in which the remaining three fingers are folded: it is much employed by the Greeks both for the left hand and the right, in rounding off their enthymemes,104 detail by detail. A gentle movement of the hand expresses promise or assent, a more violent movement suggests exhortation or sometimes praise. There is also that familiar gesture by which we drive home our words, consisting in the rapid opening and shutting of the hand: but this is a commander rather than an artistic gesture.
The gestures section starts around #65: penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/11C*.html
Article if you have JSTOR access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3556289
If the first finger touch the middle of the right-hand edge of the thumb-nail with its extremity, the other fingers being relaxed, we shall have a graceful gesture well suited to express approval or to accompany statements of facts
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(also Quintillian was born about 80 years after this show takes place)
I'm pretty sure this is based on Quintilian.
The gestures section starts around #65: penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/11C*.html
Article if you have JSTOR access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3556289
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(also Quintillian was born about 80 years after this show takes place)
I meant that they probably used Quintilian as a source, not that the character was based on Quintilian.