The people seem so empty of joy that when she touched their cold fingers it is as if she were shaking hands with a storm.
VOA: special.2009.11.15
He supposedly always bends in half whenshakinghands with shorter people, though he certainly seemed quite erect when saluting the British queen, who is much shorter than the Saudi king.
After criticising Mr Clinton for shakinghands with Fidel Castro at last week's United Nations millennium summit, he was embarrassed when the White House released a photo of a beaming Mr Lazio shakinghands with Yasser Arafat (bye-bye the Jewish votes he had won when Mrs Clinton embraced Mrs Arafat).
When he found it, he stuffed it into the muzzle with shakinghands that seemed to be darting everywhere with the sheer force of terror, and fumbled for the ramrod.