Sentences with phrase «in grand gestures»

The MC isn't interested in grand gestures, be they late corrections from the driver or excessive attitudes of the car.

Real romance doesn't only reside in grand gestures, but rather in loving in the mundane and the minutia.

A German View locates Germany's present character in the details, rather than in the grand gesture.

Echoing this sentiment in a grand gesture, Reames has created a sculpture of a trampoline with an American flag jumping mat - an object intended for recreation or exercise transformed into a symbol of irreverence and futility.

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It's a grand symbolic gesture, inspiring, but there's no power in it.

She forgave him in a movie, couldn't a grand romantic gesture from us warrant the same bursting forth of charity?

Though even that grand gesture looks a little underpowered; as was pointed out in the Guardian, this is roughly the same amount that Scudamore will take home in wages plus bonuses this year.

But there is also always celebration of life - whether grand or small in gesture.

While the gesture was grand, it was not done in a vacuum, nor was it one - and - done display.

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

To his neighbors in Queens and Manhattan, Mario Cuomo was personable and warm, with a flair for grand sentimental gestures.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan has begun hearing evidence in the case, which focuses on two de Blasio fund - raisers — Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — with investigators trying to determine if the two men benefited from some type of favorable municipal action, or the promise of some action, in exchange for their donations, their fund - raising or some other gesture.

The tobacco industry makes grand gestures in the direction of its competition, and claims that effective public health measures will increase the illicit and counterfeit tobacco trade.

People often think standing up for what they believe in has to involve a grand gesture, like protesting on Wall Street or picketing in front of a government building.

Sometimes do something so crazy and silly, the grand gesture leaves no doubt in your partner's mind that they are loved.

So regardless of whether you like to show your love via grand gestures or little complements, the main thing is that you show your partner how appreciated they are - day in, day out.

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.

If your relationship is still in its early stages it's tempting to try and blow your date away, but keep in mind grand gestures can make some people uncomfortable.

Grand gestures are something only seen in movies, and lavish proposals are not for their kind.

This ambitious record loses subtlety in the grand Springsteen - ish gestures of songs like Just For Tonight.

As the child of immigrants myself, I could feel my strings being plucked by this tale of a fair Colleen from Ireland finding love and fulfillment in the New World, and it's certainly a compliment to director John Crowley («Boy A») and screenwriter Nick Hornby (adapting the novel by Colm Tóibín) that the film calls to mind Steven Spielberg and even John Ford in its willingness to commit to the grand gesture.

And, they might have added, you can't really get inside a film noir unless you are a romantic — a person who sees life in terms of the grand gesture and fate as a pair of dice.

Few and far between are the romantic comedies that play out quite so naturally, the ones that don't suffer because of the strict parameters that make up the rom - com blueprint — we're of course reminded of those limitations within the final scene, that grand gesture that just has to happen in front of as large a crowd as possible.

Orchestrated like a musical (and better, I might add, than any musical in some years), the film is a grand succession of glorious set pieces, from the gesture - filled courtship at Princess Betsy's (Ruth Wilson) party to the thrilling, stage - set horse race set to the beat of Anna's fan.

There is no room for introspection or melancholy, only big gestures or poses in the story's comparatively calmer moments of interpersonal communication and grand social events with blizzards of colorful confetti and streamers, flappers dancing on any elevated platform they can find, and musicians spread about everywhere.

The director and co-writer is Maïwenn, who's unafraid of grand gestures and big emotional moments: her observations about why people stay in difficult, damaging relationships feel essentially true

It's also: 1) another grand gesture from the visionary Québécois Denis Villeneuve that's both sophisticated and stylish; 2) a film that really «makes you think;» 3) the antidote to the last several days in which the world has... Continue reading Arrival

We're talking about precise, subtle shifts in weight, however, rather than grand gestures.

This car frowns at and refrains from grand gestures, so turn in with restraint while staying in the taller gear then open up the steering early and feed the torque diligently.

In an extraordinary gesture of gratitude, a patron of Rolls - Royce Motor Cars presented an exceptionally grand cake in the shape of a new Rolls - Royce Phantom to the artisans who had crafted his commissioIn an extraordinary gesture of gratitude, a patron of Rolls - Royce Motor Cars presented an exceptionally grand cake in the shape of a new Rolls - Royce Phantom to the artisans who had crafted his commissioin the shape of a new Rolls - Royce Phantom to the artisans who had crafted his commission.

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion.

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

When Lindie meets Cassie in 2015, she recognizes June in a physical gesture her grand - daughter makes.

The artist's grandest gesture to date is probably his appearance — smiling and waving from his float, and wearing a flower costume — at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York in 2010.

Though large in scale, her work is intimate in nature — and the grand gesture of this mural should touch pedestrians and those passing in cars in deeply personal ways, as the work points to the complex layers of all human experience.

Selected for a 2010 Hothouse Artist Residency at UCLA and a choreographer for Asher Hartman's «Annie Okay» presented at the Hammer Museum by Machine Projects, McDowell is currently collaborating with Victoria Marks in her newest project, «Smallest Gesture / Grandest Frame.»

The artists in the exhibition, Tatsuya Higuchi, Takako Kimura, and Yuken Teruya do not attempt to present their works with grand gestures, but rather with a subtle and quiet yet at the same time powerful language.

Rauschenberg's style derived from his ability to marry Schwitters's magpie sensibility with a sense of scale, and of the grand gesture, that he'd learned from the Abstract Expressionist painters whose work he had gotten to know after arriving in New York in 1949: artists like Jack Tworkov (a fervent early supporter), Franz Kline, and, of course, Willem de Kooning, whose own art would become raw material for Rauschenberg's famous Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953).

Pop artist Jeff Koons is interested in the art of the grand gesture.

Vibrant and witty, layered and textured, she combines large gesture with tight pattern to create compositions that at once mimic the grand heroic gestures of the postwar painters, while capturing an all - over free spirit found in the graffiti that appears daily on the streets near her Bushwick studio.

The SCAD Museum of Art presents «Floresco,» a solo exhibition of work by sculptor John Bisbee, an artist who explores the elasticity and potential embodied in the humble nail, brilliantly transforming it into grand gestures that are both beautiful and awe - inspiring.

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.

Henk van Vessem is a Dutch artist who paints with a grand gesture in strongly contrasting colors, employing the ideas of abstract expressionism.

Many of his early subjects were teenagers, striking poses that imitated the blueprints of the movie and music industries with their meticulously staged dreams of the good life: visions of self - determination and resistance, grand gestures, and communities that stick together; pipe dreams that recur in the aspirational self - conceptions of many of the people Zielony meets.

A sweeping survey of small, original artworks created by contemporary artists from across the globe, «Priority Mail» is a grand and inclusive gesture for our intimate gallery space in Park Slope, Brooklyn: ALL of the first 250 submissions mailed to the gallery will be accepted and shown in the exhibition!

Schneemann tends to have a penchant for big gestures and grand themes; in contrast, these works are curious for their subtlety.

Known for embodying the radical power of art not only in the grandest of gestures but also in the most misshapen, haphazard, collective, bric - a-brac of even the smallest of chance statements, BHQF rose to national and international prominence with recognition of the Brucenniel.

This voracious appetite for art history informed Marshall's singular artistic goal, appropriating the grand artistic gestures of historical movements in order to rectify the glaring absence of the black figure within Western art history.

In the spring of this year, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York made a grand gesture when it opened its new Renzo Piano - designed building in the Meatpacking District with «America is Hard to See,» an exhibition of works drawn from the museum's collection that remains on view through today (May 1 — Sept. 27, 2015In the spring of this year, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York made a grand gesture when it opened its new Renzo Piano - designed building in the Meatpacking District with «America is Hard to See,» an exhibition of works drawn from the museum's collection that remains on view through today (May 1 — Sept. 27, 2015in New York made a grand gesture when it opened its new Renzo Piano - designed building in the Meatpacking District with «America is Hard to See,» an exhibition of works drawn from the museum's collection that remains on view through today (May 1 — Sept. 27, 2015in the Meatpacking District with «America is Hard to See,» an exhibition of works drawn from the museum's collection that remains on view through today (May 1 — Sept. 27, 2015).

Grand Gestures explores the autographic mark, executed in sweeping strokes of brilliant color which became the expressive vehicle for Franz Kline, Michael Goldberg, Hans Hofmann, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell and others who came to be known as abstract expressionists.