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Janeway puts her hands on her hips. She tosses her hair. She rolls her eyes, then focuses them like a laser on an unsuspecting crewman, who spontaneously combusts from the level-ten skunk eye. She turns up her nose. She smiles with a purity that makes hearts melt. She strokes, pats, pounds and otherwise touches every officer and alien within reach as she speaks with them. A monstrous mug of coffee beams into her grip, and she takes a swig that measures on the Richter scale. Of all the well-known, catalogued, indexed and cross-referenced Janeway Gestures to point out, they picked one we've never noticed before?
Jim Wright review of Star Trek: Voyager episode "Dark Frontier"

Lor: Ugh! Now, he's going to do his worry thing.
Tino: I don't do a "worry thing". Do I do a "worry thing"?
Lor: Trembling fingers, wrinkly forehead, rabbit mouth. Like this. (proceeds to do Tino's worry thing)
(Tino doing the "worry thing")
The Weekenders, "Murph"

Usually he uses his hands for much broader movements, like throwing rolling pins, or throwing spoons, or throwing chickens. Basically, he throws stuff.
Tough Pigs on the Swedish Chef from The Muppets (2015), "Chef Prb8blem"

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