Sentences with phrase «for grand gestures»

Cinematic romance is often remembered for grand gestures.

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VR Headsets for Everyone Grand gestures are appropriate when trying to move the needle of public opinion.

The grand gestures are wonderful but it is the little things, the things that only you can do for your special someone that makes you a special someone too.

I don't see Ian Holloway making such a grand gesture and yet even the Tangerines aren't likely to challenge for the Premier League trophy either.

What I look for is a grand gesture from the top.

To his neighbors in Queens and Manhattan, Mario Cuomo was personable and warm, with a flair for grand sentimental gestures.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan has begun hearing evidence in the case, which focuses on two de Blasio fund - raisers — Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — with investigators trying to determine if the two men benefited from some type of favorable municipal action, or the promise of some action, in exchange for their donations, their fund - raising or some other gesture.

People often think standing up for what they believe in has to involve a grand gesture, like protesting on Wall Street or picketing in front of a government building.

But the ultimate grand romantic gesture for many people is undoubtedly a surprise holiday trip.

We have a selection of concrete gestures, irresistible gift ideas and messages, topped off with inspiration for a grand romantic gesture to sweep her off her feet.

A big sign you're falling in compassionate love is an ever - growing empathy towards your partner: you feel sad when they're sad, happy when they're happy.10 You go out of your way for them — whether it's with a grand gesture or with something as small as bringing them their favourite ice - cream from the store.

Grand gestures are something only seen in movies, and lavish proposals are not for their kind.

Grand gestures are always a good idea for impressing that special dating tips for how to make your crush feel special:

For all the Hollywood obsession with high - concept and special effects, sometimes there's something enchanting about a simple story simply told, and a movie of small rather than grand gestures.

This ambitious record loses subtlety in the grand Springsteen - ish gestures of songs like Just For Tonight.

The movie loses steam when it gestures toward grand statements, but «Far and Away» is overlooked as a romantic adventure — and a fine showcase for its two leads.

Although I got a good feel for the world and it's characters, I was most enthralled by the way the book gestures towards these grand, life - altering experiences without necessarily giving them concrete details.

The movie runs close to three hours, and genuinely needs the extra time; Ade delves into the particulars of Ines» job (which sees her constantly struggling to maintain a position of authority among men), and acknowledges the depth of Winfried's love without pretending that his goofy grand gestures can serve as a magical cure - all for his daughter's unhappiness.

Her grand gesture is simply calling an ACLU lawyer and telling him she's on board for a legal battle.

Instead of quelling the young man's desire for a grand, terroristic gesture, Toller catches his passion and existential despair — much to the horror of Pastor Jeffers and Balq Industries, the oil company that's financing the restoration of the landmark church.

Brizé has made the sort of film that wins plaudits for preferring the «modest detail» to the «grand gesture,» to borrow from one trade paper review — a formula, replete with its quiet reverence of that «modest detail» that I've seen repeated at least several hundred thousand times since I first started making a practice of reading film criticism.

Less often does one read why this is necessarily to be preferred, for such avoidance of the «grand gesture» can also be tantamount to a cop - out.

There is no room for introspection or melancholy, only big gestures or poses in the story's comparatively calmer moments of interpersonal communication and grand social events with blizzards of colorful confetti and streamers, flappers dancing on any elevated platform they can find, and musicians spread about everywhere.

«The Grand Arrival gesture of the Rolls - Royce Vision Next 100 creates a stage for our important passengers as they arrive at their ultimate destination,» explains Taylor.

You get the sense when watching him that even the grandest gestures he may make aren't grand enough for him.

Selected for a 2010 Hothouse Artist Residency at UCLA and a choreographer for Asher Hartman's «Annie Okay» presented at the Hammer Museum by Machine Projects, McDowell is currently collaborating with Victoria Marks in her newest project, «Smallest Gesture / Grandest Frame.»

Rauschenberg's style derived from his ability to marry Schwitters's magpie sensibility with a sense of scale, and of the grand gesture, that he'd learned from the Abstract Expressionist painters whose work he had gotten to know after arriving in New York in 1949: artists like Jack Tworkov (a fervent early supporter), Franz Kline, and, of course, Willem de Kooning, whose own art would become raw material for Rauschenberg's famous Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953).

A sweeping survey of small, original artworks created by contemporary artists from across the globe, «Priority Mail» is a grand and inclusive gesture for our intimate gallery space in Park Slope, Brooklyn: ALL of the first 250 submissions mailed to the gallery will be accepted and shown in the exhibition!

The placement of a mirror into the world of the artwork, a grand gesture for any painter, is for Aldrich tantamount to playing a joker card, asking us to regard his visionary impulse as an afterthought, an apologetics of the studio.

Tillmans is not one for dramatic or grand gestures; it is the quiet moments that he brings into focus, freezing and capturing time, conveying intensity or lending beauty to the otherwise overlooked.

Schneemann tends to have a penchant for big gestures and grand themes; in contrast, these works are curious for their subtlety.

Known for embodying the radical power of art not only in the grandest of gestures but also in the most misshapen, haphazard, collective, bric - a-brac of even the smallest of chance statements, BHQF rose to national and international prominence with recognition of the Brucenniel.

This voracious appetite for art history informed Marshall's singular artistic goal, appropriating the grand artistic gestures of historical movements in order to rectify the glaring absence of the black figure within Western art history.

The exhibition's title alludes to this gesture; the grand celestial system that governs the universe becomes a descriptive metaphor for the microcosm of the artist's own thought process.

Grand Gestures explores the autographic mark, executed in sweeping strokes of brilliant color which became the expressive vehicle for Franz Kline, Michael Goldberg, Hans Hofmann, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell and others who came to be known as abstract expressionists.

Echoing this sentiment in a grand gesture, Reames has created a sculpture of a trampoline with an American flag jumping mat - an object intended for recreation or exercise transformed into a symbol of irreverence and futility.

But just as one doesn't win a traditional war by pulling down a statute, landing on an aircraft carrier, and proclaiming «Mission Accomplished,» one doesn't win the war for healthy oceans via a single gesture - however grand.

A big sign you're falling in compassionate love is an ever - growing empathy towards your partner: you feel sad when they're sad, happy when they're happy.10 You go out of your way for them — whether it's with a grand gesture or with something as small as bringing them their favourite ice - cream from the store.

Such grand gestures of love are reserved for the small few who can afford to make them, and whilst I'm sure many a lady wouldn't turn her nose up at a sizeable sparkler, I've talked to so many women who say it's the small gestures that are the big deals in our relationships these days.

5 points for grand or adventurous romantic gestures.

But if I picked her up in my arms and made a grand gesture of pointing and saying «MOOOOON», she'd follow my arm skyward, see the moon for herself and smile a smile that would knock an angel to their knees.

My sweet hubby doesn't make a lot of [what might be considered] «grand» gestures... but the things he does for us daily add up to HUGE in my opinion.

>> Tori Spelling «s husband Dean McDermott finally gave her the «grand gesture» she was looking for in a True Tori reunion special, revealing a tattoo of her wedding vows on his ribcage.

It embraces several grand gestures, such as the corona above the bed and richly patterned rug, usually reserved for rooms with grand proportions.

It's supposed to be the most romantic day of the year — the day where you express your love for someone, whether it's with a grand or modest gesture.