Sentences with phrase «in a gesture towards»

In a gesture towards abstraction in which blackness is and is not locatable, then, «black is a color» is an epistemological exploration of black diasporic wonderings.

In contrast Ink Drops was created as the artist unfolded herself from a crouching position to standing as she dropped the ink on the paper in a gesture towards the materiality of the body and traveling through that physicality.

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So, are these large plans just a gesture completely disregarding the companies profits, no, they are carefully laid out plans capitalizing on the average consumer's change in attitude towards the environment.

At the Boston shindig a young man dressed in rock - star black gestures towards a drone that his team flies around the country to film backdrops for these «Personalised Life Tributes».

Then just in case I was not having enough of an identity crisis, I was walking across a park pushing the pram when a drunkard lurched towards me making vaguely threatening gestures.

One is advised not to raise one's voice, not to bow, not to make any gesture of greeting towards the screen, nor towards the grille, still less to kiss them, or to pray in their direction.

A proposition is not a pure essence; though it does not give information as to how it actually functions in particular instances (like an eternal object) it does gesture towards how it could function in concrete occasions.

I did, nonetheless, gesture towards what such limits might look like when I wrote that we bear a responsibility to intervene when our security is at stake, in cases of exceptional evil, or when we have specifically promised aid and alliance.

The impression could all too easily be prompted in the minds of thoughtful parishioners that a long awaited gesture of compassion towards a downtrodden group had been blocked, yet again, by the outdated ideas of a few crusty clerics, and that it is only a matter of time before such conservatism crumbles in the face of popular opinion.

All the Reformers were of one mind in wanting to abandon the implications of the sometimes hysterical piety of the faithful towards the «Blessed Sacrament», marvelling at a kind of almost horrific miracle in the «transubstantiation» which occurred, as it were automatically, when the correct words and gestures proceeded from a properly ordained priest.

Another standard attack on Pope John Paul was to denounce his gestures of respect towards Islam - but then Pope Benedict was filmed praying in a mosque.

Not only did Reed answer with a birdie, but he bowed towards the crowd in an obviously mocking gesture towards Rory's Friday evening bow in the direction of the fans after he and Thomas Pieters won their afternoon fourball match.

Rory had been a similar maniac at Hazeltine, gesturing towards the hostile crowd at every waking opportunity, and reveling in the banter.

The Uruguayan has been handed a # 20,000 fine along with a one - match suspension, which he will serve on Friday against seventh in the table Newcastle, after a gesture he made towards Fulham fans at Craven Cottage on 5 December.

This means when he puts on his costume and starts to amaze as Spider - Man, it's a gesture of defiance towards those cool kids who looked down on him when he's in his human guise.

Considering the FA commission banned Jack Wilshere for two games for a needless gesture towards Manchester City, to have some real credibility in the game I think they should be retrospectively punishing dangerous tackles like Mikel's on Arteta.

India's Sunil Chhetri (L) gestures towards teammate Je Je (R) after India won 1 - 0 during the the Asia Group D FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifying football match between India and Guam at The Sree KanteeraVa Stadium in Bangalore on November 12, 2015.

When Rio Ferdinand scored a last minute winner against Liverpool for Manchester United back in 2006, his team - mate Gary Neville was so elated that he couldn't help himself from running towards the away section of the crowd, tugging at his shirt and gesturing towards the visiting supporters.

In one match against Manchester City, Neville almost attracted sanctions from the FA, as a direct result of his obscene gesture towards Carlos Tevez.

Deputy leader Tom Watson warned Corbyn that he has lost the confidence of MPs in a gesture many are seeing as a firm elbow towards the exit.

Mr. President, you seriously need to look at this kind gesture of yours towards the family of late Capt. Maxwell Adama Mahama again and extend it to we the «sankwas» in the police who are equally dying in line of duties just as the Captain died almost every day.

Hon Rotimi Amaechi, we are really pleased with your continuous exceptional kind gestures towards the North, in spite of the attacks on your person and ideology from some sections of the country as a result of that.

These are the kind of results good gestures from Christians towards sinners yield and it makes it difficult for me to understand why the Christian Council and Catholic Bishops Conference are rather discouraging us from giving these two Guantanamo Bay prisoners believed to be terrorists a new home in Ghana to enable them reform just like Zacchaeus did.

«It is my hope that this book might act as a gesture towards redeeming death, to invite it back into our world in some small way,» she writes.

A big sign you're falling in compassionate love is an ever - growing empathy towards your partner: you feel sad when they're sad, happy when they're happy.10 You go out of your way for them — whether it's with a grand gesture or with something as small as bringing them their favourite ice - cream from the store.

continuously making gestures towards her chest that was half exposed and just totally flirtatious and all the time doing it in a «trying not to appear flirtatious way».

In a tables - turning gesture, the picture also features a skinny - dipping scene in which a half - dozen or so boys appear bare - assed as they run down the pier towards the water while not one — not onIn a tables - turning gesture, the picture also features a skinny - dipping scene in which a half - dozen or so boys appear bare - assed as they run down the pier towards the water while not one — not onin which a half - dozen or so boys appear bare - assed as they run down the pier towards the water while not one — not one!

Another heated rivalry exists between Luigi and Waluigi, with the two sharing bad chemistry in all the games they appear in together, and acting hostile and rude towards each other, such as Luigi making a gesture at Waluigi to anger him in Mario Tennis, the two scowling at each other in the Mario Party 3 group picture, and Waluigi's vandalism of Luigi's picture in the opening movie of Mario Power Tennis.

Damon and Blanchett make some half - hearted gestures towards romance before eventually walking away, while Bill Murray and Bob Balaban are set up as a bickering double - act but their one - liners are delivered with such little spark or conviction, it's as if we're watching them in an early rehearsal, reading from the page.

Yet, even with new forms of resistance ushered in by technological innovation, the stiff - gestured ideology of neoliberalism has arched towards a state of «human exceptionalism» where all of humanity is now supposed to feel free to exploit at will the relations between nature and society any way that it chooses, as long as profits can be squeezed out.

Authors can no more destroy Amazon than they can ride unicorns and Amazon may be interested in sucking all the money it can out of authors» products regardless of the consequences but as its recent snuggle gesture towards authors shows, the company isn't out to get rid of books from the marketplace.

«Microsoft's new OS, a general shift towards larger screen form factor and productivity focused solutions, and technology innovations such as gesture interface that could be introduced in tablets will help the market maintain positive growth in 2015.»

While I do believe in positive reinforcement training, I believe more in positive words and gestures towards my dog than dishing out treats.

Nintendo presented a pre-recorded «Spotlight,» focusing on Switch games coming out in 2017, touching on Nintendo's ongoing competitive multiplayer initiatives, and gesturing towards 2018 and beyond.

Another heated rivalry exists between Luigi and Waluigi, with the two sharing bad chemistry in all the games they appear in together, and acting hostile and rude towards each other, such as Luigi making a gesture at Waluigi to anger him in Mario Tennis, the two scowling at each other in the Mario Party 3 group picture, and Waluigi's vandalism of Luigi's picture in the opening movie of Mario Power Tennis.

With one hand gesturing towards the viewer, the other on his hip, his full lips slightly parted, he seems caught in a moment which is part self - consciously posed and part spontaneous.

The steel has not been treated with any kind of artistic gesture, the original text identifying its industry is in tact, and the helium jacks are in their original state a further gesture towards the economics involved in what we think of as art in the contemporary sphere.

These wonderful plays between the organic and the geometric, between form and formlessness eventually led her away from art altogether, and towards what she came to regard as a kind of therapy, in which objects took the place of speech and gesture.

His work continuously evolves from a language of gestures and colored born out of abstract expressionism, towards the meticulous painting style seen in the 1964 - 66 series dots paintings.

The artworks shift between embodied forms of conversation such as speech and gesture towards more textual forms of communication, registering a curiosity in the overlooked details of daily life.

In Auto - stop (1965), a work gesturing towards Diego Velázquez's La Venus del Espejo, the artist scrutinizes the power dynamic inherent in the gazIn Auto - stop (1965), a work gesturing towards Diego Velázquez's La Venus del Espejo, the artist scrutinizes the power dynamic inherent in the gazin the gaze.

With this gesture, the paintings are pushed towards abstraction that culminates in an almost - black monochrome installed at South Gallery II.

In these pieces, large geometrical forms emerge caught between a state of fixed physical presence while gesturing towards fluid aerodynamic forms that glide and ascend.

«Dub Versions», his current exhibition at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham (until 18 September), also features works that gesture towards complete abstraction, but for Anderson it's key that they are seen in series with their more representational counterparts.

So I veered towards the Rothko and Newman side of the NY school, and with a touch of Mondrian thrown in, my work became much more about simplicity, solidity, scale and proportion than the grand gesture.

For Price, as for an increasing number of architects today, architecture was an instrument towards social and pedagogical growth, and not an aesthetic gesture in itself.

Marshall's works simultaneously gestures towards opposite ends of the economic spectrum, thus evoking the same issues of class mobility and its inherent connections to race and representation as in earlier paintings like Great America.

A resonant idea for the represented decade in art, each exhibited work relates: questioning the record of the historical past, critiquing the contemporary circumstances of the present, or gesturing towards alternatives for the future.

The work seeks to locate the possible effects or afterimages of an exhibition across two categories of imprints: on one hand, a kind of retinal persistence, a blur of works and texts that vie for preeminence in recalling the experience of the exhibition, and, on the other hand, the mode of the archive that exhibitions of contemporary art in general gesture towards, the database where they would like to register.

Here, next to the bed presented by Oka, as we stood silently, viewing the scene, a video started on the wall showing a man and a woman in the throes of a fight, with the man's gradual gestures of violence towards the rather unflinching woman.