Sentences with phrase «grand gestures like»

But you don't have to make grand gestures like sweeping them off to a second honeymoon to have a healthy relationship.

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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.

What You Don't Do — Lianne La Havas Like many new love songs, What You Don't Do focuses on the realities of love, showing that sometimes true romance comes from quiet, real moments rather than grand gestures.

So regardless of whether you like to show your love via grand gestures or little complements, the main thing is that you show your partner how appreciated they are - day in, day out.

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

Orchestrated like a musical (and better, I might add, than any musical in some years), the film is a grand succession of glorious set pieces, from the gesture - filled courtship at Princess Betsy's (Ruth Wilson) party to the thrilling, stage - set horse race set to the beat of Anna's fan.

Back then I had all these romantic, sappy notions of what Valentine's Day should look like, and it involved candlelit dinners, roses and other grand gestures.

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).

While works like Eclipse captured autobiographical moments with grand gestures, Derek has since focused his attention on the quotidian.

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.

«How is it that Bruce Nauman, sequestered as he is most of the time in his New Mexico studio, manages to emerge now and again like a grand wizard to address the art world of the moment with a meaningful gesture that points the way to the future?»

These narratives do not make grand gestures or even overt political statements, but rather, like a kind of «daily feminism», focus on mundane domestic preoccupations; universal themes connecting us to each other.

One of the great illusions of the climate movement has always been that the problem would or could be solved with a grand, sweeping gesture like a climate tax or a binding international agreement.