hands

Plenty of people relate to Tommy, a plain-spoken executive with a working man’s hands and a defeated father’s liver, chain-smoking his way around Midland, Texas.

It’s a fleeting tableau, but it reveals the whole story: even the most forsaken creation reaches for connection the moment he’s given something warm to hold in his hands.

India’s men refused to shake hands with their Pakistani opponents at the Asia Cup in September, since when neither side has shown signs of making up.

Itoje was just shaking hands, cool as you like, and Pollock ran at him and they embraced.

Her father tried to rescue her, but both were swept into the ocean as they held hands.