With a ramrod-straight back and hands neatly clasped in her lap, we gradually broke into conversation.
The deal Annan struck, which Clinton promiscuously clasped to his bosom, would strip the U.N.
My ambassador insisted on standing in front of the car, hands clasped until we had finished our conversation.
And sometimes they would get down on their knees and weep with their hands clasped in front of their chins.
On Tuesday, Rafferty stood with his hands clasped behind his back and showed no emotion as the convictions were read.
Demonstrating his technique, he sat back in his office chair, closed his eyes, and clasped his hands in front of him.
When it was over, the on-field celebration consisted of little more than a few pats on the back and some clasped hands.
Last night on the sidewalk outside the Astrodome, a minister and two women stood in a circle, eyes shut and hands clasped.
Mouthless, carved from pale limestone, with obsidian eyes in sunken sockets and hands clasped to his groin, he resembled a wasted snowman.
These stand-ins for the tomb's occupants look on without expression, hands clasped.
His legs are crossed and his hands are clasped over his knee.
Few men looked less like a Rough Rider than Mr Christopher as he clasped his prize, his handkerchief neatly in his top pocket.
She clasped my right side and repeatedly rubbed my left arm, murmuring into my left ear what I thought were more words of Malayalam.
He shook Hamilton by the hand and said "well done, well done", while the Briton responded: "Thank you mate" and clasped Alonso on the shoulder.
There are pillars depicted with clasped hands, or wearing foxtail loincloths.
Her tone was casual, her clasped hands still, her eyes unflinching.
One of the most appealing: Stand with your head slightly tilted and your hands clasped, and with a smile and a gaze that meets the other person's.
When I looked up from the sink I saw her in the mirror, standing outside the bathroom, her hands clasped against her waist, like a person in prayer.
He was well ahead of us and walking slowly, hands clasped behind his back, a smallish figure turning now to enter a residential street and fade from view.
The veteran Ghana international clasped the official's arms and kept them pinned to his side, but was eventually sent from the pitch after Boateng intervened to calm him down.
One such moment occurred for me in 1997, as I watched my brother pilot Cloud Strife through the ruins of the Forgotten City while Aerith Gainsborough clasped her hands in prayer.
While it is not a full embrace, the Iranian president and Mr Chavez's mother have their faces brushed against each other, with their hands clasped in a moment of shared grief.
Holwell, Anil Kumar, the McKinsey consultant, walked to the witness stand, where he stood for a moment, in a dark suit and tie, and bowed his head, his hands clasped before him.
It shows Philip the Good, surrounded by his courtiers, receiving the gold clasped book that legitimised the reign of dukes of Burgundy over Flanders by somehow tracing their ancestry back to Alexander the Great.
Maftzir clasped his left hand in his right hand and pressed it joyfully, as if he had not seen himself for quite a long time and this unexpected meeting had raised his spirits considerably.
Jocky Wilson flew the flag that way for more than 15 years. (He sometimes did so literally, pushing his grinning way through the crowds with the Saltire clasped in one plump hand.) He became the first Scot to win the Embassy World Professional Championship in 1982, repeated the feat in 1989, and between 1979 and 1991 he always reached at least the quarter-finals.
ECONOMIST: Jocky Wilson, darts player, died on March 24th, aged 62
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