Sentences with phrase «dramatic gesture»

It was the most dramatic gesture of reconciliation between them in a decade.

It's a compelling dramatic gesture of wisdom, understanding and what I can only call moral goodness.

You have to back your claim with dramatic gestures that are «expensive» — in other words, that require real sacrifice and will probably make you feel uncomfortable and vulnerable.»

She doesn't need all these spasms and convulsions of sentiment from you, all these apocalyptic renunciations and absurd dramatic gestures.

In one of the most dramatic gestures of «Revolution in the Making», Jackie Winsor's soaring «30 to 1 Bound Trees» stands at the center of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel's sprawling outdoor courtyard, an architectural hub where key galleries of the complex converge and connect.

But calculating all the shadows cast by individual strands of hair as they shift with the slightest movement — not to mention more dramatic gestures like the heroic knight's Breck Girl flip — can take dozens of hours to process, even on high - powered computers.

In John, then, acquiring the donkey is something that Jesus himself does as a dramatic gesture, and it is a beautiful symbol of his humility in the face of triumphalist misunderstanding.

The church responds by making its split with the person public and unmistakable in hopes that the dramatic gesture will return them to grace.

While it was treated as suicide, the verdict from the coroner at the inquest of his death suggested that he did not intend to kill himself, but rather to make a dramatic gesture.

Do not reward biting with a dramatic gesture; simply end the nursing session firmly but without forcible words or actions.

Use funny voices and dramatic gestures.

(Paterson said immediately afterward that he was «disappointed, stunned and frankly chagrined» at the legislature's actions, and responded as best he could, with what amounts to a dramatic gesture: thousands of line - item vetoes of the legislature's budget that, relative to the overall amounts at stake, don't add up to much at all.)

He deserves credit for his dramatic gesture in the debate, but shouldn't he follow this up by handing that money back?

Greenberg says New York voters seem «locked in» at the moment, until Cuomo makes a dramatic gesture that they either «love or hate.»

A dramatic gesture would mirror the «Tory coup» on raising the inheritance tax threshold to # 1m and would resonate throughout the Labour movement, the society's general secretary, Sunder Katwala, will say.

Greenberg says New York voters seem «locked in» at the moment, until the Cuomo makes a dramatic gesture that they either «love or hate».

In 2003 Bin Laden made the dramatic gesture of requesting a fatwa from a radical Saudi cleric authorizing the use of a nuclear bomb against American civilians (not surprisingly, it was granted).

They consummate their feelings on a night of anti-Armenian riots in Constantinople, the kind of big, dramatic gesture that tends to fall flat in The Promise.

It's a dramatic gesture meant to set the stage not just for the character but for the audience as well, usually done in a way that's meant to be somewhat shocking.

And hands, always big, dramatic gestures with the hands.

In this riveting memoir, Wendy Lawless details growing up with Georgann, her beautiful, volatile, alcoholic mother prone to dramatic gestures that included multiple marriages and suicide attempts.

Regardless of «who» or «why,» some dramatic gesture was called for.

Notes on Gesture is a video comparing authentic and dramatic gestures.

In the Stedelijk's building, with its dramatic gestures and undeniable moments of theatricality, four artists explore the notion of «staging» further within the context of the art museum.

The show actually loses something with its most literal and dramatic gestures, as in Tammy Bickel metal Dragonfly, Doug Makemson's bird of prey, or Miles Van Rensselaer's wiry pied piper.

Inspired by the dramatic gestures and theatrical stages of the Stedelijk Museum's new architecture, Stage It!

So how do you go about doing it without the dramatic gestures?

It is the dramatic gesture itself in modern times, not a religious content, that accounts for art's hold on the minds of men.»

Hamilton is no stranger to the dramatic gesture.