Sentences with phrase «as my visitors sat»

Not exact matches

In Florence, meanwhile, authorities have started hosing down public spots such as church steps where many visitors congregate to eat picnics, to stop them from sitting down.

Miguel D'Escoto, Catholic priest and head of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, looked tired as he sat down to address a delegation of foreign visitors.

At the ABC meetings delegates and visitors may sit anywhere and everywhere, almost as though it were an intentional act of the executive leadership to render the policy - making and voting process as difficult as possible for the delegates, scattered as they are and mingled with the «visitors.»

Green Smoothie bowls are a regular visitor to my breakfast table (who am I kidding, there is no table in this equation, I eat breakfast standing up in the kitchen as I prep for shoots, or sitting at my desk while editing photos... but that's another story altogether).

After the restart the visitors knew they could not just sit back although you would hardly know it as they continued to defend deep and with numbers.

THe fact that we need the points a lot more than the visitors could well play a part as they will be able to sit back, keep it tight and hope for us to lose patience and over commit.

«When they called my name on the 1st tee, I was hiding behind the starter's tent taking some deep breaths,» says Atwater, his eyes wide and bright as he sits in the visitors» center at Taft.

Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp is desperate to see the visitors go for it and not produce a repeat performance of the goalless draw with Liverpool on Monday night, as he believes that there is enough talent and pride within the club to do more than just sit back and be happy with a point.

Everton are having a solid season and sit in sixth place on the game, but they were held by mid-table West Ham at Goodison Park as Romelu Lukaku equalised after Mauro Zarate had given the visitors a shock lead.

Let's sit and wait as the money may pour in on the visitors.

The visitors were more than content to just sit back and soak up the pressure and we struggled to carve out good opportunities as a result.

And the visitors began the second half firmly on the front foot, pressing forward as Newport sat back in the opening moments.

The blustery and soaking conditions weren't ideal, but as Chelsea sat back, Arsenal couldn't whip up a storm to break through the visitors» bus in front of the goal.

For so many, none of the visitors are coming over to clean, or do a load of laundry, or to sit with you and give you knowledgeable suggestions on breastfeeding or bottlefeeding... all while bringing you a snack to munch on as you snuggle in with your new baby.

Tzivoni replied that the rooms are not suitable for rooming in as there is no place for a visitor to sit, or for father to stay overnight.

There are also hints that the office doubles, at night, as Gibson's living quarters: a folding bed (an «upgrade» from the air mattress he used in his first two terms) hides in a coat cabinet between the desk and a private bathroom, and five suits and several Oxford shirts hang from a coatrack above the black leather chair where the congressman sat to receive visitors.

Hoosick Falls, after all, sits near Cambridge, as I've mentioned, and also Bennington, Vt., but has yet to develop enough of its own reasons to pull visitors toward its Main Street.

Sit back, relax, and watch as it transmits information to you about each and every visitor.

Brushwood Estate in North Lake Tahoe sits on acres with 400 feet As the largest alpine lake in North America, Lake Tahoe attracts visitors year - round with its natural beauty and a choice of activities.

Visitors to the Cat Boat are likely to find its founder there, too, sitting in the small anteroom that doubles as a kitchen.

Lets say you see an approaching visitor, get ready with the clicker and perform a sit as usual, try to time it the exact moment the doorbell rings.

Instruct visitors how to use the kibble as lures and rewards to teach the pup to come, sit, lie down, stand, and roll over.

Though you need not worry too much about breaking customs around mealtime, as Belize is plenty used to having visitors and guests, there is always a bit of uncertainty about what to expect when sitting down for lunch or dinner in a new and unfamiliar place.

The Mergui Archipelago is one of the least - visited places on earth, and it is only recently that the region with its 800 or so islands has slowly opened up to visitors, who come searching for some of the best dive spots in Asia with rays and sharks, as well as the diversity of coral reefs which sit off many of the white powdery sand beaches.

Maho Beach sits at the end of the runway of St. Maarten's Princess Juliana International Airport, and it's quite the sight to see giant passenger jets passing over the waves and sand just hundreds of feet up as they make their final approach, bringing yet another wave of visitors to the island.

The Central Square is surrounded with a number of interesting buildings such as the interesting and informative Archaeological Museum as well as pavement cafes where visitors can sit and watch the world go by, while the waterfront is another go area to hang out.

Abramović has continued to work independently since then, staging performative works that increasingly demand viewer involvement, such as her MoMA retrospective, «The Artist Is Present,» in which museum visitors could sit down across from Abramović at a table and engage in a silent exchange with the artist.

Essentially every visitor to the Museum who sat on that bench was re-performing Kim Novak's role as Madeleine.

In Neuenschwander's version a police sketch artist sits with visitors and listens as they describe the faces of their first loves; the sketch artist then produces portraits of these «first loves» to adorn the walls of the gallery for the duration of the exhibition.

During that exhibition, Abramović tested her own endurance with a new piece titled The Artist is Present, in which she sat, stationary, as visitors took turns occupying the seat opposite her.

Like the Kabuki jazz - dancers who led visitors from one installation to another in Kelley's retrospective as it was installed in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, Charlemagne Palestine's installations in the museum's stairwell connect each of the curators» floors, to humorously unsettling effect: they consist of sad stuffed animals sitting atop speakers that play droning organ music.

The latter reflects Bath's history as a centre for portrait painting in the late 18th century, when many of the wealthy visitors who came to the city to enjoy the spa also sat for a picture.

Roman Ondák's «Swap» (2011) asks a performer to choose an object as they sit behind a table, and when visitors enter the room they are then able to swap the object with anything else they are willing to exchange, while in Chinese artist Xu Zhen's «In Just a Blink of an Eye» (2005) a body floats in mid-air as if frozen, defying both time and gravity, and making the audience question reality and reflect on the work's seeming impossibility.

To experience Tōhaku's works as though they were in a Buddhist temple, visitors to Japan Society Gallery have the opportunity to sit barefooted and on the floor in close proximity to an uncased, high - quality facsimile of Tōhaku's famous painted pine trees screen.»

Abramović sits in silence in the museum's atrium during public hours, inviting visitors to take the seat across from her for as long as they choose within the time frame of the museum's hours of operation.

Recently Josephine Pryde had a large - scale model freight train constructed for visitors to sit on as they rattled past her photographs in a show in San Francisco, but it is her enigmatic, often staged images that count: hamsters, young women pretending to be pregnant, hands holding objects and gifts.

The back rests can be seen as a kind of painting in the background and the bulky wooden benches, on which visitors may sit, also serve as a starting position for viewing art.

Paul's exhibition at Spike Island evolves around La Perma - Perla Kraal Emporium, a collaborative work that invites visitors to sit around a long table and make clay beads, thereby becoming the work at the same time as creating it.

The idea is for visitors to the museums to gather on the carpets to watch the news coverage, sit, rest, talk, argue and, in the process, compose a kind of living artwork - as - debate, in which the subject will be politics, art and maybe museums themselves.

The question of the self is at the centre of the films, and visitors will be invited to sit on the nearby benches and contemplate these sanctuaries, as a way to confront their own solitary reflections.

A particularly strong piece, The Lifted X (1965), sits in the center of the main gallery and meets visitors as the first sculpture they experience in the space.

Here, visitors can stroll among follies, pavilions and pop ups in the East London park, as well as sit down and relax on one of the pews and perches conceived by architects for the RIBA London competition.

-- A Picasso retrospective is such at hit that visitors crowding into the museum on the last day of the show sit down and refuse to leave at closing time until, as one newspaper reported, «they had their fill.»

The model is presented as the subject of a life drawing and visitors are encouraged to sit down and sketch, their efforts later displayed around the room as if in a real class.

In the 2010 MOMA retrospective, The Artist is Present, a team of trained artists re-performed Abramovic's seminal performances, some of which with her former partner Ulay, while Abramović herself sat at a small table as museum visitors waited to sit across from her.

Sitting in limbo between the more industrial quarter to the south and the more urban and residential one to the north, the project's role is to create synergy: encouraging visitors as well as occupants, confirmed specialists as well as budding pioneers - to - be, adults as well as children to be part of the collective emulation housed within.

He is a regular visitor to The Strand area of legal London, where his wife since 2008, Dame Elizabeth Gloster sits as a Court of Appeal judge.

In From February 2013 to January 2018 he was appointed a Member of the Council of the Inns of Court Disciplinary Tribunal (now the Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service) and has sat as a Visitor to the Inns of Court.

Visitors watched as Parkland volunteer Debbie Friedman sat cross-legged on the grass, sorting through keepsakes left for Dworet: a pair of swimming goggles, wind chimes, plaques, a hockey medal.

As the face of an office, usually sitting at the front desk, you'll be answering phones, greeting visitors and clients, coordinating schedules, and managing office events and logistical projects.