THE RENUNCIATION

🧐 I’m giving up on this option. I won’t take you up on this offer — don’t expect anything like this from me again!

📖 Efference of giving up an option or rejecting an offer: communicating one’s intentions as a plan of action within the social sphere

😶 The gaze is focused on the other person, though in a narration it can also wander

🤔 Raise your hands with the palms facing forward at chest height, keeping them in a strong but passive flexion; the hand hangs loosely forward. Then the forearm continues to rise while the hand moves from flexion into slight hyperextension. Finally, the forearm and hand swing forward and downward. Then the hand returns to its resting position. The forearm participates in the strike, but the movement is more pronounced in the wrist, which returns from slight hyperextension to its previous flexed position in a relaxed motion.

🤓 When you make a renunciation — what you choose to do without need not be something to be looked down upon

😎 The mood is gloomy

When the gesture is very pronounced, the arm is moved in a wide arc so that it is eventually almost fully extended. When the gesture is less…