Sentences with phrase «grand statements about»

My * opinion * is that we make a lot of grand statements about being a force of good in the world, but our actions often suggest otherwise.

On the other hand, the cool, damp cloud feels more heavy handed, more desperate for grand statements about humanity and mortality.

I wouldn't make any grand statements about Call of Duty: Ghosts that I couldn't back up.

The science fiction imprints Baen and Tor, among others, now both sell their ebooks directly to customers without DRM, making grand statements about the reader's right to access the books they've bought however they choose.

He's not making any grand statements about religion or sexuality.

Kim Jong - un and President Moon mixed small talk with grand statements about working together to make the world a better place in their introductory remarks, according to Yoon Young - chan, senior secretary of communication in the South's presidential office.

These multiple aims of churches and schools are again multiplied as one proceeds from grand statements about the purpose of the large organizations to the specialized goals of boards and departments, of courses and classes, of rural and urban congregations, of ministries of preaching and education and pastoral work and of preparation for such particular functions.

It showcases a career best performance (Ed Norton in that movie) in a character piece that isn't so much about a personal journey as it is a grand statement about a specific social problem that will continue to thrive with no end in sight.

In her latest film, «Night Moves,» a ragtag triumvirate of determined activists - cum - eco-terrorists, played by Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard, decide to make a grand statement about over-consumption and the destruction of natural resources by blowing up a hydroelectric dam on the Oregon river near where they live.

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David felt his statement was true saying «I was talking about the grand sweep of the biblical writers» attempts to describe God».

It was a grand statement, with romance and pride in a great tradition about it, that might captivate in suitable circumstances.

Silvers lawyers two weeks ago claimed that statements Bharara made about the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

After being read a statement about the Eric Garner grand jury case that cast Donovan in a good light and a separate statement that cast him in a negative light, the numbers stayed at 49 - 33.

The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the charges — which allege Silver lined his pockets with nearly $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000 — claiming public statements that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara made about the case «caused irreparable harm by tainting» the grand jury that indicted him on Feb. 19.

Silver defense lawyer Steve Molo said Bharara's statements after Silver's arrest broke rules about what prosecutors can say outside of court, and prejudiced the grand jury that indicted him last week.

The heads of law enforcement unions have accused the mayor of undermining the NYPD with his statements about the danger police pose to his son Dante de Blasio after a Staten Island grand jury voted not to indict an officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

So you tend to finish up the conversation with a grand flourish of throwing your hands in the air and making some statement about winning the lottery.

Soon after Duvivier moved around the casbah of Algiers, Renoir made his own tragic commentary on his country with Grand Illusion, a more sociological - centered statement on class resentment bringing about the Great War (and possibly, the war brewing on the other side of Alsace - Lorraine).

OK, but statements like that needs some evidence behind it, and apart from references to «grand cinematography» and references to Phoenix and Hoffman as «likely Oscar nominees» who «command the screen,» it's difficult (for me, at least) to get a sense of what the reviewer thinks the movie is about, or what's so special about the picture.

This is a movie about grand statements, soulmates, and true passion, a film that unabashedly believes in the craziness and the stupidity of what we call love.

She makes grand philosophical statements to Quentin about the importance of her quest.

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Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.

1987 Message Units, 516-277-4338, New York, US About Sculpture, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, US Saga 87 (premiere foire), Eric Linard Editions, Grand Palais, Paris, FR Ohne Die Rose... Grusse an Beuys von 199 Kunstlern, Stadtisches Museum Haus, Monchengladbach, and Koekkoek, Kleve, DE XXX Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, DE Group Exhibition, Rudiger Schottle Gallery, Munich, DE Hyperspaces, Art City, New York, US Group Exhibition, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Snow, Weiner, Nannucci, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA; Alberta College Art Gallery, Calgary, CA; MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Ontario, CA; Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax, CA; Forrest City Gallery, London, Ontario, CA; Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, B.C., CA Marc Hostettler und die Editions Media, Graphik - Sammlung ETH, Zurich, CH Stichting Fort Asperen, Asperen, NL Group Exhibition, Galerie Francoise Lambert, Milan, IT Group Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT Jack Goldstein, John Lamka, Lawrence Weiner, Piezo Electric, New York, US Folkwang Video, Videogalerie Gerry Schum, Essen, DE Incrocio - Un Racconto, La Saleriana, Erice, Sicily, IT Aspects of Conceptualism in American Work, Part II, Avenue B Gallery, New York, US Leo Castelli y Sus Artistas, XXX Anos de..., Centre Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, MX Leo Castelli: A Tribute Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, US Comic Iconoclasm, ICA, London, UK; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IR; CornerHouse Gallery, Manchester, UK Dessins, Gallerie Catherine Issert, Paris, FR In Print - Artists» Books, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, AU Director's Invitational, David Brown Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, US Musee St. Pierre Art Contemporain Lyon, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE Strong Statements in Black and White, James Goodman Gallery, New York, US Hommage a Leo Castelli, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FR Group Show, Galerie Johnen and Schottle, Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, DE Group Show, Galerij de Lege Ruimte, Brugge, BE Nachtvuur, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, BE

Normally when grand statements are made about a nation's offshore wind power potential the mind naturally conjures up briny images.

Although Finnis concedes that the Third Section and the Grand Chamber made no ruling about taqiyyah in Sahin, he does point to broader statements on this point made in Refah Partisi (the Welfare Party) and Others v. Turkey [GC], nos. 41340 / 98, 41342 / 98, 41343 / 98 and 41344 / 98, ECHR 2003 - II.

You make good products (that are, admittedly, getting more and more compromised in both function and design by the day), but please stop the grand standing statements about privacy.

On the TFQ, participants consistently agreed with positive statements about team functioning (93 % overall; grand mean = 4.60), with agreement on each of the 14 items above 90 % (item means ranged from 4.47 to 4.74).