A vigorous black - and - white Franz Kline glimpsed through the recesses of a Mark di Suvero sculpture in the center of the floor is a lesson
in gesture as well as curatorial choice.
By his action, Bergson taught that the integrity and courage of a lifetime can be expressed
in a gesture as simple, as profound, as acutely motivated, and yet as free as that of pinning a yellow armband, emblazoned with the Star of David, on one's sleeve.
Not exact matches
It's these small
gestures that will ignite the same spirit
in others and perhaps inspire them to go out and do good
as well.
New Eurogroup President Portuguese Finance Minister Mario Centeno
gestures during a press conference on his election
as new Eurogroup chief at the European Council
in Brussels, Belgium on December 4, 2017.
It's
gestures such
as these that
in the long run can help boost your bottom line.
Again, Zuckerberg has
gestured to this idea, adopting «meaningful groups»
as another of his new totem - phrases, and suggesting that the solution lies
in Facebook's hosting a constellation of smaller overlapping social networks, each of which can set its own standards.
Guitar and gear marketplace Reverb.com uses this philosophy even
in seemingly mundane functions such
as shipping, designing its own boxes, throwing freebies into shipments and packing items creatively — all little
gestures that result
in repeat business and new fans of the brand.
But tipping is actually perceived
as rude
in some countries like Japan, where the
gesture is interpreted to mean that you're saying a worker can't be expected to provide good service without a bribe.
It could be seen
as a
gesture of goodwill for Canadian and Mexican negotiators who are
in talks with the U.S. to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Fallon made two cameos on The Late Show, which basically served
as a concession that the night belonged to Colbert,
as well
as representing a symbolic friendly
gesture in a late - night TV landscape that has historically been anything but hospitable.
A boy with Robert Plant locks indulges,
gesturing to a tablet computer
as he haltingly explains the three - dimensional world he has coded
in the game Minecraft — Nadella's first major acquisition
as Microsoft's CEO.
(Crews claimed that Venit, who works for William Morris Endeavor and represents top clients such
as Emma Stone, Adam Sandler, and Eddie Murphy, made a series of lewd
gestures and then physically groped him at a party
in 2016.)
Moreover, the sign language database will be updated with new
gestures and words from users via the «Sign Builder» feature because,
as in speech, there are multiple ways to express a word
in sign.
President Donald Trump
gestures as he arrives for the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting
in Davos, Switzerland January 25, 2018.
In controlled tests, researchers discovered that when waiters gave customers a small gift (such
as a mint), tipping was on average 23 % higher for customers who were surprised by the
gesture (source).
Kermit Pattison: Bob Sutton once blogged about how
as CEO you came to appreciate the importance of small
gestures like offhand comments or greeting people
in the hallway.
Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma
gestures as he attends Alibaba Group's 11.11 Global shopping festival
in Beijing, China, November 10, 2015.
In this Feb. 16, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump gestures as he walks as he leaves the White House, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, in Washington, for a trip to his private Mar - a-Lago resort in Florid
In this Feb. 16, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump
gestures as he walks
as he leaves the White House, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018,
in Washington, for a trip to his private Mar - a-Lago resort in Florid
in Washington, for a trip to his private Mar - a-Lago resort
in Florid
in Florida.
I suspect that
in India —
as opposed to here
in Canada — the Trudeau Family's effort to go full Bollywood will be viewed more kindly by ordinary citizens who hear about it,
as an eccentric but friendly
gesture, not the grave insult Conservative politicians and Canadian pundits are trying to spin it into.
In this respect, Mr. Xi's
gesture is seen
as too little too late.
Identifying and placing qualified women
in senior roles should be «business
as usual,» not a twice - a-year token
gesture.
These little
gestures will surely make your connections go a long way and will eventually, establish you
as a trust worthy brand
in the market.
The late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
gestures with a green cane
as he takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade
in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009.
Neuhaus, and he risked creating the impression that he was authoritarian, talking to us from on high, but his tone» serious but never seriously self - referential» established quickly enough that the meaning of this
gesture was that it was the preaching office that was elevated, not the man except insofar
as he was operating
in persona Christi.
A version of this article appears
in print on 04/29/2013, on page B1 of the NewYork edition with the headline: No Words, No
Gestures, Just Your Brain
as the Control Pad.
Volunteers, including Swiss Guards and nuns, went around the city
in a minibus to distribute them
as a
gesture to mark Pope Francis» 78th birthday on Wednesday.
The Oregon study's finding that expanding Medicaid had a statistically insignificant impact on the health of beneficiaries could be used by many Republican politicians
as an excuse to ignore health care policy beyond making some
gestures in the direction of repealing Obamacare.
Instead, we have abstract
gestures toward it
in phrases such
as «That Sacrifice!
The most innovative
gesture in Jones's feminist remap - ping of sin is her linking sin to the eschatologically oriented doctrines of sanctification and justification rather than to creation,
as many of her feminist predecessors have done.
John Paul II explained that this was to be seen
as a
gesture in recognition of the spiritual value of their previous ministry
in the separated churches The conditions involved keeping the actual office of Parish Priest for celibate clergy.
A careful choice of words,
as well the appropriate facial expression or physical
gesture,
in all the stages of a child's development, deepens self - awareness.
In John, then, acquiring the donkey is something that Jesus himself does as a dramatic gesture, and it is a beautiful symbol of his humility in the face of triumphalist misunderstandin
In John, then, acquiring the donkey is something that Jesus himself does
as a dramatic
gesture, and it is a beautiful symbol of his humility
in the face of triumphalist misunderstandin
in the face of triumphalist misunderstanding.
Tim who uses a surname
in TLS and other forums, but not
in web - indexable places (Please don't use my choice
as an excuse, Alex — it was intended
as an empathetic
gesture)
Today Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande met at Reims Cathedral, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle meeting there
as a
gesture of Franco - German reconciliation this day
in 1962.
Quirky and perhaps at times a little meandering, it is
as though we have joined him
in his sitting room and,
as he thinks out loud, generously sharing a lifetime of penetrating, logical reflection, he illustrates what he has to say by
gesturing to books on the table, pictures on the wall, activities going on outside the window.
As a pastor who struggles with the church at various intervals
in my life, I found the picture disrespectful, not because I have NOT been blisteringly angry with the church, such a
gesture would be disrespectful
in other arenas.
No word or
gesture can really alleviate the pain and sorrow that must be lived through, nor can we deny the ambivalence of the one we would approach; for that person (
as Lewis also aptly describes) is often
in a state of wanting / not wanting contact.
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.
So, while I certainly appreciate your, what I believe to be a «sincere»
gesture with your quotes from the book of Luke to... «save my eternal soul,» I only wish you peace
in your life... and should there happen to be an after - life... and... it happens to be exactly
as you think, maybe you can put
in a good word for me with St. Peter at the Pearlies!!!
No doubt Rainey regards the publication of his book
in this series
as a
gesture subversive of an outmoded aestheticism.
As an Orthodox Christian definitely
in the ecumenical «left wing» of my church, I can not speak for all my co-confessionalists; but I can record my own shame that so few Orthodox hierarchs have even recognized the remarkable
gesture made by John Paul II
in Ut Unum Sint (1995),
in openly soliciting advice on how to understand his office (even indeed the limits of its jurisdiction), or been moved to respond with anything like comparable Christian charity.
Radical Augustinians from Calvinists and Jansenists (including Pascal) through Kierkegaard and Catholic postmodernists such
as Jean - Luc Marion emancipate this
gesture of radical transcendence from the Platonic moorings still at work
in Augustine.
At the place
in the speaker's drama called «preaching», the preacher looks
in the direction of «theatre», that is, any site where words and images, arranged
as aesthetic texts, are transformed into speech and
gesture and are put on display.
Looking outwardly upon universalisms» blackness is the samething thing
as looking inwardly past the veiled molecules to see what has been scientifically
gestured to be «atomic» nebulas
in an atomically designated Cosmos,,,,,,,, you know their fathers (plural)
as being but one celestial universe within untold numbers of celestial universes within the Celestial Cosmos.
As Tutu encouraged people to tell their stories and ask their questions
in Facing the Truth, a phrase or
gesture would trigger
in me a memory of another story of deep human loss
in Ireland, and then another.
In any case,
as the 90s closed this rock - bohemian leftism increasingly appeared
as little but a confused incoherence that took hyper - radical political
gestures for granted (sort of
as another mode of transgressionism — Chomskyite Marxism for me, Marilyn Manson for thee, piercings for both of us) even
as its actual materialism and actual political impotence / apathy became ever - more pronounced.
Think of John Ashbery's «Self - Portrait
in a Convex Mirror,»
in which the artist Parmigianino
gestures with his hand
in the painted convex surface,
as if welcoming us, even
as the figure
in the mirror pulls away.
There are, for example, signals used
in animal communication, nonconventional signals which include some
gestures, and single - word sentences such
as the word «Tree» used by children
in the early stages of language acquisition.
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.
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.