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.