Sentences with phrase «grand gestures by»

On top of the subdued gradients Schnabel made grand gestures by applying the paint with his fingers, hands and feet on the canvas.

However, it is a grand gesture by two powerhouse countries and that will have big ripple effects.

Make a grand gesture by placing an arrangement of flowerpots along an unloved wall.

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By responding to the actual user and user needs, versus the nuances of his own platform, the subtle Snapchat update is actually a grand gesture.

I spoke of the earlier generation, influenced by the grand gestures of modernism and sensitive to the aggressive early twentieth - century secularist attacks on religion, as writers inclined to «shout.»

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratcBy avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratcby making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

Step - by - step advances, not grand gestures, offer the most realistic way to control greenhouse gases

It's all the more moving that Jamie's means of dealing with the destabilizing force of unrequited love consists of one grand, romantic gesture followed by a second, and considerably more foolish one, as she drives through the night just to catch a quick hello with Beth as the latter walks from the local coffee shop to her office.

As the child of immigrants myself, I could feel my strings being plucked by this tale of a fair Colleen from Ireland finding love and fulfillment in the New World, and it's certainly a compliment to director John Crowley («Boy A») and screenwriter Nick Hornby (adapting the novel by Colm Tóibín) that the film calls to mind Steven Spielberg and even John Ford in its willingness to commit to the grand gesture.

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.

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.»

Grand gestures and other - worldliness have been replaced by a quiet reflection on the physicality of our mechanised existence.»

By the 1950s, White depicted working men and women on a grand scale, with an intensity of mark making and an attention to natural gestures that made his subjects into heroic figures.»

The SCAD Museum of Art presents «Floresco,» a solo exhibition of work by sculptor John Bisbee, an artist who explores the elasticity and potential embodied in the humble nail, brilliantly transforming it into grand gestures that are both beautiful and awe - inspiring.

As evidenced by the often spectacular Frank Stella retrospective currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the artist early on achieved a rather exalted position as the principal heir to the heroic scale and grand gestures of Abstract Expressionism.

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!

Sarcastically gloppy and garishly colorful, they are all brag and bluster — grand gesture, stunted by canvases less than a foot square.

While at first glance Lin seems to prefer the grand gesture, on careful inspection he rewards the viewer with more subtle, measured experiences like small paintings on paper that recall 20th century abstraction by artists including Miro, Kandinsky, Gorky, and Gottlieb.

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.

To this day, the innovative campaign serves as a case study on how to get a job by making a grand gesture.

According to a new study by researchers at Penn State University, you don't need grand gestures to show your partner love.