Sentences with phrase «in a gesture of»

In a gesture of solidarity with federal workers who are being affected by the sequester, the White House announced that President Barack Obama will be giving back 5 % of his salary — the approximate amount of pay being cut from nondefense federal agencies.

It involves the body of Christ in people, in gestures of charity, in priests, rites, vessels and vestments and the very «making flesh» of the body of Christ for us to consume.

And yet in this gesture of quietude and confidence, God will reveal himself as the one who loves his people and brings his kingdom to flourishing.

He asks us to stand and raise our right arms in a gesture of blessing» a practice that's become increasingly popular in Catholic churches and is distressing not only because of its questionable theology, but also because the net effect of the sight of a thousand people, right arms stretched forward seems unsettlingly... well, fascist, to put it bluntly.

The fact is that the religious life involves far more than killing time, far more, for example, than sticking out one's hand in a gesture of otherworldly defiance and running down the clock, though heaven knows we need gestures of religious defiance in today's world.

Another possible image candidate would show a couple of people (such as a married couple) who were about to tear each other to pieces until the minister raised his hands in a gesture of peace, so that the hostilities can begin to subside.

What she was to discover was that for the artist, the entire universe exists in the gesture of the individual, and the individual she knew best was southern.

But when the vision of a God who surpasses Job's narrow expectation of justice appears «out of the whirlwind,» Job has to press his hands to his lips in a gesture of silence before the incomprehensible.

As Liverpool wound down the clock to what should have been a nail - biting 2 - 1 win over Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday, Emre Can smashed the ball into the stands, throwing his hands up in a gesture of gladiatorial combat.

By rights, Saja should have suspended from the first leg, but in a gesture of centennial generosity, CONMEBOL handed out an amnesty.

Tariku dove headfirst into the waves over and over, popping up with his arms outstretched toward the sky in a gesture of pure joy.

In a gesture of contempt for protesters, Nestlé's sponsorship deal for the London Marathon this year includes renaming Canada Water underground station after its bottled water brand.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked New York City commissioners to look for ways to cut costs in a gesture of fiscal moderation prompted by worries over the rocky world economy, drawing cautious praise from budget watchdogs.

Ultimately he does return, of course, but not before he reaches into a sleeve pocket and, in a gesture of victory, pulls out a handful of M&M s.

11 Let's sleep on it first: In a gesture of integration with the European Union, Spain has launched a campaign to eliminate the tradition of siestas, or afternoon naps.

Squeeze your inner thighs together and open the right palm in a gesture of gratitude.

Setting up shop on his own with the help of Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), a colleague who walks out with him in a gesture of support, Jerry is able to retain only one client.

The paperback has now appeared, though in a gesture of unsportsmanlike behavior the publisher has changed the subtitle.

In a gesture of generous equanimity / shameless insolence (circle the option which applies), Netflix proposed a «compromise» solution whereby the normal release windows would be waived in exchange for a limited run in theatres.

Once you open your ears to student voice, and open your mind to their ideas and your hand in a gesture of partnership, there is no limit to the positive impact.

Honda fixed all those gripes for 2017, and threw in a turbocharger in a gesture of goodwill (except on the base LX).

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He adopted a physical materiality from African sculpture and focused on questioning the faith in gesture of the New York School.

For the Project Space Festival of 2016, in a gesture of hospitality these three spaces made the decision to open their rooms to a fourth guest — U10 from Belgrad, Serbia.

In a gesture of solidarity, the flag will be raised simultaneously at the following five locations: Creative Time headquarters at 59 E 4th Street and The Queens Museum in New York, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, North Carolina, and University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, which has agreed to be a year - long host for the series.

In a gesture of affection to Marc and Livia Straus, Nitsch has dedicated these works to the couple to acknowledge their lifelong patronage of the arts.

Wobbe Micha centres his work in the gesture of object - making, the importance of the sculpture laying on «the hand over the surface».

Together, the paintings and installation function as an invitation for visitors to fully engage in a gesture of inclusivity, presence and immersive participation.

Five years later in 1964, perhaps in a gesture of gratitude, Still made an unprecedented decision to give the newly renamed Albright - Knox Art Gallery 31 of his paintings.

One woman faces front, palm open, in a gesture of welcome or refusal.

In the unusually simple Jack Johnson (1982), the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion raises his fist in a gesture of Black Power.

Melting under the heat, the performers» make - up is a tenuous composition, eventually smeared away in a gesture of (choreographed) self - effacement.

Lindsey French is an artist and educator whose work engages in gestures of communication with landscapes and the nonhuman.

In a gesture of transparency, Bharucha offered to meet with small groups of students, faculty, and alumni to discuss this situation further.

Shantamani Muddaiah's outdoor charcoal sculpture Backbone, 2014, shaped to resemble spinal vertebrae recalled the very origins of human forms, while Aji VN's textured charcoal and water color drawings Untitled II, 2014, showcased the horizon meeting the ocean in a gesture of celestial confederation.

It's their first solo show in their hometown, and a newly optimistic outlook comes through in their latest work: The video on display, their very first, is called Meditation Not Medication, and a collection of cartoon animals in gestures of thanks is called The Gratitude Series.

Later, Gilbert Stuart's unfinished portrait of George Washington, painted in 1796 and on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, reinforced my interest in gestures of the incomplete.

Yet he turned against the violence of de Kooning: «We all dissent from de Kooning's example of defacing, of painting out the painting, of throwing the defiled scrapings back on to the surface, in a gesture of contempt and hatred....

Mira Dancy's gorgeous, joyful mural of a reclining female nude, for instance, takes off across from the ecstasy of feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson's Woman Rising (1973), a black - and - white photograph in which a woman stands in an open desert, her arms stretched out toward the sky in a gesture of empowerment and freedom that is reinforced by a V - shaped line of contrails in the sky.

'» We at NWEI are excited to share in a gesture of local service, and are also grateful for all that the NWEI community does to serve local communities, inspiring people to act in service of the Earth.

U.N. backed negotiations between the rebels and the government are also continuing in Doha, and the rebels have released government prisoners in a gesture of good faith.

In a gesture of good travel karma, Travel Guard has announced that it will provide their emergency travel assistance services to all travelers affected by Aloha Airlines» announcement that it has ceased operations.

Not exact matches

When a new product swoops in, things change and that change can be hard; just think of keyboard shortcuts, trackpad gestures, and even the position where buttons to close and minimise windows are (top left on macOS, top right on Windows).

Keep in mind the shape you're making is similar to the sign language gesture for a part of the female anatomy.

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That's what the manager of one restaurant in Virginia did - and unfortunately the gesture backfired.

He appeared to make some sort of gesture at the police with an object in his hand just before they ordered him to lie down on the ground and took him away.

In one of his sweetest gestures yet, Harry drove three hours round trip to pick up Meghan and bring her to Pippa Middleton's wedding reception.

And with each gesture, Trump pulls the media in closer, hoping to blunt the force of any future criticism.

«It would be a great gesture of goodwill for the prime minister to make ahead of negotiations but equally it's good for our businesses... This is what I hear about day in, day out,» he added, noting that the U.K. government could offer this to EU workers unilaterally despite having been rebuked earlier by the trading bloc in an attempt to agree a deal on this issue ahead of full Brexit negotiations.