Sentences with phrase «making grand gestures»

It's typical of his quirky style, making grand gestures with unexpected materials.

They have had a difficult season (or seasons)-- otherwise they wouldn't have just dumped their coach — and they want their athletic director to go out and make a grand 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.

Muted tones and a canopy bed make a grand gesture.

If you want to make a grand gesture of love, what could be more romantic than surprising your partner with an unplanned visit?

Kinsley concludes Old Age: A Beginner's Guide with a plea to his fellow boomers to make a grand gesture that would be the moral equivalent of the Greatest Generation's triumph over Hitler: a self - imposed tax on the massive transfer of wealth they're currently enjoying to help whittle down America's mountain of debt.

Mother Nature makes grand gestures of rock and water amongst pockets of plains and indigenous plant life all along the drive.

On top of the subdued gradients Schnabel made grand gestures by applying the paint with his fingers, hands and feet on the canvas.

On this tautest of tightropes, I dared to make grand gestures, racing out to the end of the limb and trusting that I would not fall.»

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, 2015).

These narratives do not make grand gestures or even overt political statements, but rather, like a kind of «daily feminism», focus on mundane domestic preoccupations; universal themes connecting us to each other.

To this day, the innovative campaign serves as a case study on how to get a job by making a grand gesture.

But you don't have to make grand gestures like sweeping them off to a second honeymoon to have a healthy relationship.

But if I picked her up in my arms and made a grand gesture of pointing and saying «MOOOOON», she'd follow my arm skyward, see the moon for herself and smile a smile that would knock an angel to their knees.

Muted tones and a canopy bed make a grand gesture.

Make a grand gesture by placing an arrangement of flowerpots along an unloved wall.

Not exact matches

There's an abundance of shredded iceberg lettuce, and the toasted bread is only half - toasted — if you're going to make the grand (and appreciated) gesture of toasting, go all the way with it.

The Civic Center was filled with everything that made Chicago such an exhilarating and alarming city — jostling, shouting, joking, cajoling, backslapping, backstabbing, bargaining, dealing, favors granted, grudges paid with interest, intimidation, bribery, conciliation, grand gestures, obscene remarks, and the occasional spontaneous act of generosity.

The grand gestures are wonderful but it is the little things, the things that only you can do for your special someone that makes you a special someone too.

I don't see Ian Holloway making such a grand gesture and yet even the Tangerines aren't likely to challenge for the Premier League trophy either.

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

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.

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 always a good idea for impressing that special dating tips for how to make your crush feel special:

Brizé has made the sort of film that wins plaudits for preferring the «modest detail» to the «grand gesture,» to borrow from one trade paper review — a formula, replete with its quiet reverence of that «modest detail» that I've seen repeated at least several hundred thousand times since I first started making a practice of reading film criticism.

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.

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

You get the sense when watching him that even the grandest gestures he may make aren't grand enough for him.

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

Artists from very different localities were not only beginning to be grouped together through grand curatorial gestures, but through a particular way of making art.

By the 1950s, White depicted working men and women on a grand scale, with an intensity of mark making and an attention to natural gestures that made his subjects into heroic figures.»

Such grand gestures of love are reserved for the small few who can afford to make them, and whilst I'm sure many a lady wouldn't turn her nose up at a sizeable sparkler, I've talked to so many women who say it's the small gestures that are the big deals in our relationships these days.

The message of Hold Me Tight is simple: Forget about learning how to argue better, analyzing your early childhood, making grand romantic gestures, or experimenting with new sexual positions.

My sweet hubby doesn't make a lot of [what might be considered] «grand» gestures... but the things he does for us daily add up to HUGE in my opinion.

A maple mantel fronts the range hood and makes a grand old - world gesture in the new - build kitchen.