While Ms. Dodd's characters' lives lack heroic scope they are brave people whose gestures symbolize hope beyond the hopelessness of their situations.

Their gesture symbolized reconciliation between their people.

Roh made a stopover at Panmunjeom and crossed the Military Demarcation Line by foot, stating that his gesture would symbolize the future reunification of Korea.

As Othello, Carlos Orta let his big wide arm gestures symbolize first his character's nobility and later his mounting jealousy and rage.

The gesture symbolizes one of the major changes Mr. Rudenstine is trying to bring to Harvard: a greater concern with undergraduate students.

Fans of Arizona State University use a similar gesture (with separated index and middle fingers) to symbolize a pitchfork, as their school's mascot is the Sun Devil.

Steven Brown made harsh gestures symbolize winter.

The gesture symbolized a Captain's starburst of rank: in words it would come out approximately as "You'll have a command by morning!"

The gesture symbolizes Mr. Allen's willingness to change and to make the $12 billion merger work.

Forceful gestures symbolized her days as a socially conscious modern dancer.