Finger-point

He was encouraged to finger-point at words while reading.

Last Wednesday, Graham and George Washington’s Tom Tate almost came to blows after a finger-pointing episode. […] Graham does not finger-point to show for fans. He does it because it comes to mind in the natural flow of the game, as it comes to every player’s mind.

At times, he looked at the gulf of dark heads looking up at him as if to a god. At times, he finger-pointed at the horizon, to the enemy that existed anywhere out there, somewhere.

Mr. Strzok smirked as the joint committee members fought one another, yelled for points of order or parliamentary inquiries, talked over one another and finger-pointed.

As the family crumbles, society finger-points: “First, it was teachers and schools; it must be their fault. Then single mothers; it must be their fault. Now, we’re moving on to fathers,” [Richard] Louv writes.

The spokesman for the White House, Ari Fleischer, said it was “time for everybody concerned to take a deep breath, to stop finger-pointing and to work well together.”

The rumor that the four “Sex and the City” girls were really four gay men was merely urban legend, she said, and finger-pointed conservative author Ann Coulter as its source.

More flagrantly, the Delhi police themselves closed some 241 cases after survivors finger-pointed particular senior officers.

The finger-point to no one in particular is also effective. This worked especially well for ballads.

[Armando] Iannucci describes a hand gesture she perfected that he particularly admired, “a clenched thumb thing” used only by politicians “that no one else does in real life.” “It’s not a fist, and it’s not a finger-point,” Louis-Dreyfus explains. “You could call it a ‘thist.’ You make a fist and then you move your thumb on top of the bent fingers, like you’re ready to have a thumb fight with someone. It’s not a natural human gesture. It tries to straddle both sides, you know? To be powerful, but not aggressive.”

Someone yelled, “I love you,” and the president gave a finger-point and his standard: “Love you back.”

Pederson capably channeled the emotions of every Dodgers fan in the building, punctuating his rowdy trip around the bases with a fist in the air, a chest-thump, a get-on-your-feet gesture to the crowd and a double-barreled finger-point to his dugout.

In Calgary, the most interesting recipient of a finger-point has been 26-year-old star winger Johnny Gaudreau. With only 5 goals and 18 points to start the year, and shooting a measly 7.8% — well-below last season’s 14.7% and his career average of 12.5% — some have called for the Flames to explore trade options for Gaudreau before his value drops.

“What I don’t want to have happen is a finger-point, this is all Willson’s fault. It’s not,” Mozeliak said.