Data nodded, lifting his hands in a gesture of apology.
He lifted his hands into the air in a gesture of surrender.
Then he lifted his hands in a gesture of truce.
Mechanically she lifted her own arms in a gesture of response.
She lifted the weapon high above her head in a gesture of triumph.
The old man lifted his hands in a gesture of emptiness.
He lifted his two hands in a gesture as of prayer.
He lifted it to his lips in a formal gesture.
A few even lifted their hands in a gesture of parting.
She lifted one hand in a gesture that said, Let me go on.