Sentences with phrase «hands waving at»

McManus and his colleague, psychologist Alex Hartigan, also of U.C.L., got their wish in the form of a 90 - minute excerpt of footage shot by early filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, from which they identified 391 hands waving at the camera.

There is nothing specially wrong with this diagram with the exception of the hand waving at the end.

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«We're a tech company,» the Facebook CEO protests, waving his hands and pointing at the social network's algorithm, the way a magician waves a handkerchief to try and distract you.

There is no point where I have to wave my hands, pretend to think deep thoughts and point at a retreaded Canaanite blood god and say «And then he cast a magic spell, and POOF!

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

You cut through the modern politics and hand waving and what you have is that for at LEAST 200 years and probably more (longer than we've been around as a country) Christians were «held in contempt» to the point that for about 10 of those years several emperors pursued active policies of extermination (that's what the «actually persecuting» statement refers to - think holocaust type policies) that included some of the worst type of tortures known to humanity.

He waved his hand at his friends and associates and named them his mother and brothers.

Recognize, on the other hand, that within the domain of our experience man is at the head of one of the two greatest waves into which, for us, tangible reality is divided, and that therefore he holds in his hands the fortunes of the universe: and immediately you cause him to turn his face towards the grandeur of a new sunrise.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Hundreds of worshipers waved their hands at the high points in the eucharistic liturgy, giving the worship an almost Pentecostal quality.

Things like: — there is no such thing as a ghost — people do not rise from the dead — snakes can not talk — seas do not part at the wave of a hand, and on and on...

My comment about hand - waving was directed at your expansion to «larger differences», rather than dealing with the issue at hand.

«Thirteen years ago,» said my friend as he waved his hand out toward it, «there was nothing here and now look at it!»

(a traditional italian summer drink made with almond syrup), we do eat watermelon and blackberries, but the pine grove, the woods and the beach are not always close at hand, and instead we have heat waves, damp weather and weepy children...

At the same time my arms are waving about rather haphazardly as I try to balance 2 bottle of water in my hands.

Waving a New York gender discrimination case in hand, the women were seated at a table and proceeded to return several times over the span of a year until the policy was finally removed.

Usually I have some boneless chicken breasts on hand to wave a magic wand at so they turn into dinner.

New York Yankee catcher Thurman Munson, waiting at home greeted Jackson with both hands, then gave him a little Sinatra wave of advance, as if the Yankee dugout were Munson's office and he had just asked Jackson in for smokes and a martini.

However, particularly after their Champions League exit at the hands of Roma in midweek, Valverde has coming under a huge wave of criticism from supporters, who again criticised him for his starting line - up against Valencia.

It is now looking like Arsenal waving an early goodbye to the Capital One Cup at the hands of Southampton about a month ago could turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

@ Nikk Every time I saw Wenger in the technical box, he either had his arms folded, hand on hips or was waving his arms at the fourth official.?

Hands folded on a table, now smiling at a remembrance, now teary - eyed at another, he occasionally glances out the window to a larger visitors» room, waving or nodding to some fellow prisoners while scanning the faces of others.

After thanking him, I turned to leave, and a woman with a stroller approached him, waved her hand at him and snapped, «I need the elevator now.»

She pushes my hands away all the time now and when I tell her «No» now she waves her hand at me if almost to hit me.

«I'm fascinated by the fact that I, too, floated in a sack of amniotic fluid; that I, too, saw my hand for the first time and probably stared at it for 30 minutes straight, waving it in the air.

She's never hung out at Gymboree in the company of her sleep - deprived and manic mum singing and waving a scarf in her face while weeping silently behind her hands about what she's become (joke!

I took him to the doctor the other day and he said its totally normal that he will learn soon but it's really getting to me because I keep hearing from other moms that he should at least say a word or two by now and as a mom I feel really bad about it although he does understand me saying bye bye then he starts to put his hand up waving «bye bye».

By the way, when I taught my girls to wave, I taught them to do a «princess wave» with an open hand that rotates at the wrist.

There are even motion - sensor models that open at the wave of a hand.

But he waved his hand as if to dismiss as silly the question, «Would you ask your mom to make it at home?»

To do this massage it is okay to massage in the normal manner, but it seems to be more effective to apply pressure with your palm by pushing inward on the milk duct blockage, then, while pushing into your breast with your palm, roll your hand down (keep the pressure on your palm and push down with your fingers in a wave motion so that at the end your entire hand is applying pressure) onto your breast so that the pressure is pushing the plugged duct towards your nipple.

A bipolar Brooklyn man waving a metal object at passersby was fatally shot by police when cops responding to 911 calls for a man with a gun said he «took a two - handed shooting stance» and pointed at them.

Dadey said, though, that today's announcement «should not distract from the more immediate task at hand of addressing the crime wave of corruption in Albany» and called for passage of previously proposed measures.

Clinton did not speak at the event, smiling and waving and occasionally venturing to the police barricades to shake hands.

On the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street in Cobble Hill, he shook hands with supporters and volunteers and waved at passing drivers.

Radio waves that originated at a later time in cosmic history, on the other hand, might be stretched only, say, fivefold, arriving here as 105 - centimeter signals.

«I have to read these books,» he says, waving a hand toward a wall of science and technology texts in his small, neat office at U.C.S.B.. For him, reading textbooks is like rehashing what is already known.

Strogatz explores dozens of strange synchronous phenomena, from hands clapping in unison to the rhythmic flashing of fireflies to laser beams produced by trillions of atoms emitting light waves in phase at the same frequency.

«Originally, we created these as an educational tool for visualizing concepts and ideas — in place of a blackboard and hand waving — to help people see things they never did before,» says Thomas DeFanti, a research scientist at UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a pioneer of virtual reality systems.

You may be coordinated and have a hands - free phone in your car, but recent studies at the University of Utah suggest that it isn't the dialing or the arm waving that makes driving while talking on a cell phone dangerous.

Chewing on a bran muffin (there are full kitchens and abundant munchies in all four of the El Segundo buildings), Musk waves a hand at the production floor, where technicians built the Falcon I's space - grade 2219 aluminum alloy fuel tank, its first - stage engine, dubbed Merlin, and the upper - stage engine, called Kestrel.

How will they function at parties if they can't protect themselves from salvers of appetizers with a theatrically pale and desperate wave of the hand?

I the younger was not swearing at all, I the younger was busy waving «my» hands around with all the urgency of youth and saying, «Time is not real, death is not real, they are constructs that are placed upon us.»

A fruit fly starts buzzing around food at a picnic, so you wave your hand over the insect and shoo it away.

«If you run a needle into the skin of your hand, at first you feel a pricking pain and then, after a delay of about one second, a wave of burning pain,» says physiologist Herman Handwerker of the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg in Germany.

The multiverse turned into slightly more than just a hand - waving argument in 2000, when Bousso and Joe Polchinski, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, found a mechanism that could give rise to a panorama of parallel universes.

And as he waves his hand dismissively at the jury, the audience breaks out in titters of laughter.

«Thanks to all of you, near and far, old and young, who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken from interplanetary distances,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «While Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings, the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands, uplifted paws, smiling faces and artwork.»

The ARM method, on the other hand, uses a gentle acoustic wave generated by a similar power as ultrasound imaging and at a lower frequency.

A team of physicists at the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute have developed a device, called a U-TENG, that is designed to take mechanical motion — like the waves in the ocean, the tap of a foot or the clap of a hand — and transform it into electricity.