Sentences with phrase «hands grasping at»

Often shooting the action with sweeping pans a la «Afterschool» (a film more transparently indebted to the clinical approach of Michael Haneke), he tends to keep shots at the consistent level of heads bobbing along back alleys, hands as they hold onto one another, hips as they thrust together, until the routine is unsettled by bodies falling where they ought not to be, with hands grasping at feet and other indications of unease quietly coming to the forefront.

The many hands grasping at the large bronze globe at the Hall of Planet Earth knew just where to land.

She is represented here by three photographs: two iconic platinum palladium prints of tabletop still lifes and a mysterious gelatin silver print of a hand grasping at a silvery, conical form.

Not exact matches

Before you know it you'll have fully grasped the topic at hand.

But the New York Times writer failed to grasp that the article in Italian was commenting on off - hand remarks by Pope Francis at an audience in November, suggesting that perhaps he agrees with Paul VI, who once said to a young boy that his dog would be with him in heaven.

He could barely grasp his fork; «Look at your hand, Dad.

I think about the upper room, voices behind hands, the murmuring against me, and suddenly I'm at the front of the line and Reverend Snow has grasped my hand.

But at least for today - Egypt's first Independence Day - Islam has taken a back seat to a very different sort of religion: faith in the power of an oppressed people to grasp after freedom and feel it fresh in their own shaking hands.

Whitehead, on the other hand, stands at the forefront of a movement that was destined to debunk absolutes in both philosophy and science, in order to grasp the nature of reality with more subtle and flexible intellectual tools.

The distant God is at the same time the God near at hand, Whose reality is not to be grasped when a man seeks to escape from his own concrete existence, but precisely when he holds it fast.

But this next chapter will make no sense at all unless we have grasped the distinction between the world as it appears on the one hand outwardly and as revealed by mechanistic science, and on the other hand the world that is hidden beneath appearances but is as real.

On the other hand if I precipitously and ineptly venture to grasp too much at one time I might be overwhelmed by the complexity of the material that I attempt to appropriate.

The revelatory promise of Yahweh, first bestowed on Abraham and handed down through the precious centuries of Jewish and Christian history, is in fact all that we would be capable of grasping at this juncture of time.

When one stumbles, bumping all their neighbors while grasping with sweaty hand for the pole, mumbling apologies and righting themselves, smoothing wrinkles and reinserting headphones, we imperceptibly nod with tightly pressed lips hinting at a familiar camaraderie.

Young has grasped his first - team chance at Manchester United with both hands after Louis van Gaal decided to shake things up in his faltering side.

If the Arsenal manager was a bit less like a poker player on his last hand, all in, and with his house and car riding on the result, or if he had actually done a bit more of what the football media had been expecting, then they would not have to start grasping at straws quite so desperately.

But at that point, the ball might be firmly grasped with his right hand (around the ball) and either his left hand or arm (which we can't really tell from available angles).

He grasps the football toward its tail end and so much out on the extremity of his fingers that the palm of his hand does not contact the leather of the ball at any point.

Babies also start to explore their surroundings with their hands, reaching out, swatting at, and grasping for a favorite toy.

Besides being super fun to look at, this modern - looking teether features an ingenious non-choking design that is easy for little hands to grasp and maneuver.

You're incredible at grabbing objects now, bringing both hands together to grasp and pull toward your face.

By baby's third to fourth month, you'll begin to notice your sweet babe swinging his arms at objects and opening and closing his hands to try to grasp.

Most 8 - ounce bottles are long and clumsy for both baby and parent to hold, but my son, at only 4 months, could easily grasp the more boxy shape of the bottle in his hands; I felt that the weight distribution of the formula in the bottle made it easy for me to feed him in the middle of the night without my hand cramping up.

The team at Marcus & Marcus developed the silicone Training Cup with a non-slip grasp design that prevents the cup from slipping out of your toddler's little hands while they get accustomed to an adult - sized cup.

Right photo: Twist as shown by grasping both sides of the diaper at the same time, left hand palm up, right hand palm down (opposite if you're left handed).

Reaching, grasping, shaking and dropping a toy aids your child in learning to grasp with all of her fingers at the same time an important fine motor skill needed for eye - hand coordination and eventually for controlling and holding writing tools.

At first babies «rake» food into their hand, but soon they develop the «pincer grasp» that allows them to pick up small objects between thumb and forefinger.

The handle is the best part - it's easy for little hands to grasp & he can carry it around with him at night.

The firmer grasp on the issues at hand?

Barwell points to his work to modernise the Tory party in the wake of the 1997 election defeat at the hands of Tony Blair: «He was the first person in the Conservative party to grasp the degree of change that was required to win an election again.»

GLAAD has come out strongly against the ad, which has begun running in Iowa, where foes of marriage equality are grasping at straws to find a way they can possibly overturn the sweeping unanimous decision in favor of marriage equality recently handed down by the Iowa Supreme Court.

Instead, mayoral hopeful and Council Speaker Christine Quinn stood in as a guest of honor, and official predictor, at the ceremony, grasping the chubby furball with her heavily gloved hands and making the final call — that Mr. Hogg did not see his shadow.

«Often in one - to - one meetings, you will understand what your supervisor says at a basic level, but will only have a good grasp of the implications and ramifications towards the end of your PhD,» says Hand.

The hand learns the best way to grasp objects — that's the beauty of it, says Ghazal Ghazaei at Newcastle University, UK, who helped develop the device (Journal of Neural Engineering, doi.org/b6t7).

There's the clutching reaction of the rhesus monkey, in which the female generally reaches back with one hand and grasps the male, sometimes turning and looking over her shoulder at the presumed moment of his climax — which, if it does indicate a female eruption as well, would leave people in the dust when it comes to simultaneous orgasms.

«The hope behind something like this capsule is that the surgeon will be able to place it inside the body through an existing incision and leave it in a position where it can be easily grasped and used to map out the stiffness or density of the tissue when needed, much like he or she would palpate it with by hand in open surgery,» said collaborator S. Duke Herrell, associate professor of urologic surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

And clearly we still have not fully grasped the issues at hand, as in 2013 researchers sequenced the HeLa cell genome — and published it.

«The human hand has the ability to do numerous complex operations beyond just grasping,» says Christian Klaes, a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech and first author of the paper.

Begin by selecting a set of relatively light dumbbells, grasping one with each hand, standing upright, and holding the dumbbells down at your side at arm's length with your palms facing you.

Then reach down with both hands and grasp with each hand the band at approximately half the distance down your shin and sit back.

At first many students who learn this pose aren't able to easily grasp the back foot directly with their hands.

My mom gently grasped my hand and kept staring at me.

Begin with your knees slightly bent, your torso flat and at about a 45 - degree angle to the floor, your working arm extended down toward the floor (palm facing in), and your nonworking hand grasping the machine or on your thigh to stabilize yourself.

Fortunately, someone comes to help me, grasps my hand and using it knocks at the door stronger.

Bring a bag of peanuts to a baseball game, have some nuts and beer at the bar... one minute you're talking and the next your hand is grasping at air because you've just mindlessly devoured 700 calories worth of nuts.

Sitting at the end of the bench, hands grasping the sides of the bench distally while the trunk was slightly inclined posteriorly with knees slightly bent and extended parallel to the floor, participants flexed the trunk and brought the knees to the chest and then back out for 1 repetition.

Now, with the other hand grasp the towel at chest level.

Who has also discovered her hands that are now constantly in her mouth or swatting at toys or grasping my fingers — it makes my heart happy being able to experience every moment of her growing.

All too often in «7 Days in Entebbe,» primary characters on all sides of this 1970s period - piece political thriller state the obvious — and then state it again, and then have to stand around while someone else states the obvious one more time, just in case the folks in the seats have yet to grasp the stakes at hand and the dilemmas in play.

An impressionistic barrage of sexually frustrated prisoners grasping for each other and at themselves, their musculature bathed in chiaroscuro light as they lovingly move their hands down their bodies while they're watched by drooling, baton - wielding guards, Un chant d'amour is an all - consuming work of art that aims to liberate the viewer through erotic fantasy.