As I watched the MP speaking and read the subtitles I paid attention to his fellow MP's in the chairs behind him. Reading their body language, facial expressions, looking for signs of agreement, disagreement, discomfort, embarrassment, disinterest, etc.
She remained largely disengaged. Only a couple times perking her head up as he said something that gave her some alarm, once exchanging glances with the other man.
Who remained much more engaged after he got settled in. He was mostly stoic, but a few times my read was that he was uncomfortable with the issues being raised, the quotes being rehashed, some of the names attached to those quotes meant more to him than others, and in one moment towards the end he looked into the audience as if he had eye contact with someone he knew didn't like what was being said, and just wanted the speaker's time to end. My overall body language read was that those who the MP was directing his remarks to, which were probably the majority in the room, including the leaders in the chairs behind him, were made a bit uncomfortable by his remarks. I sensed a some regret, a little embarrassment, both pushed aside as they didn't wish to reconsider their prior beliefs, a sense that the MP was being overdramatic and really just wanting to move on, what's done is done. Averting any reflection they may have seen in a self-image mirror for fear it would be unflattering.
And the small clattering of applause informed me most of the chamber probably went through the same internal thought process as I believe I saw they went through in both their faces and body languages.
But that's my read. Informed by my experiences reading people and my biases I hold. Conceding I could be way off. It is hard to get into the head of others. Yet I would be interested in how others would read them and compare notes.
As I watched the MP speaking and read the subtitles I paid attention to his fellow MP's in the chairs behind him. Reading their body language, facial expressions, looking for signs of agreement, disagreement, discomfort, embarrassment, disinterest, etc.
She remained largely disengaged. Only a couple times perking her head up as he said something that gave her some alarm, once exchanging glances with the other man.
Who remained much more engaged after he got settled in. He was mostly stoic, but a few times my read was that he was uncomfortable with the issues being raised, the quotes being rehashed, some of the names attached to those quotes meant more to him than others, and in one moment towards the end he looked into the audience as if he had eye contact with someone he knew didn't like what was being said, and just wanted the speaker's time to end. My overall body language read was that those who the MP was directing his remarks to, which were probably the majority in the room, including the leaders in the chairs behind him, were made a bit uncomfortable by his remarks. I sensed a some regret, a little embarrassment, both pushed aside as they didn't wish to reconsider their prior beliefs, a sense that the MP was being overdramatic and really just wanting to move on, what's done is done. Averting any reflection they may have seen in a self-image mirror for fear it would be unflattering.
And the small clattering of applause informed me most of the chamber probably went through the same internal thought process as I believe I saw they went through in both their faces and body languages.
But that's my read. Informed by my experiences reading people and my biases I hold. Conceding I could be way off. It is hard to get into the head of others. Yet I would be interested in how others would read them and compare notes.