Some of the medium's most dangerous enemies were lurking here, the creative people who believe that one has only to invoke the term " opera " in order to justify emotive excess or semaphoric gesticulation.
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But it did appear that while other party factions make do next week with the usual frenzy of scampering runners and semaphoric hand signals, the Christian Coalition's floor whips will have an advantage with their hand-held computers in constant contact with a command center.
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Graham, I fear, has spent too much time directing Italian operas, and so he sends Renee Fleming, for whom Previn wrote the part, through the usual operatic repertory of staggers, grimaces, hand-wringings, head-holdings and semaphoric waving of arms.
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She is trying to be polite ( sort of ), but her semaphoric facial tics clearly signal what this former Australian housewife and newly self-anointed queen of Broadway really thinks of aqua as a color choice for the exterior of a house, even a house in New Jersey.
