Sentences with phrase «more of a gesture»

Thanks to four - wheel drive, even low - speed acceleration is always more of a gesture than an event.

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The gesture is fitting — Bouchard's transformation of Alimentation Couche - Tard from a single convenience store into a $ 35 - billion retail empire is one of the country's more successful business stories of the past 40 years — but 2016 has not been without its trials.

I also look at it as a gesture of good faith where you have to regulate Uber and bring down the level of regulations on taxis so you have them much more equitable.

When you are as large and all - encompassing as Facebook, even something that seems like a gesture of friendship can take on a much more ominous tone.

You may need to alter your tone of voice, use more gestures or change the order of your talking points to get audience members back on board.

Pair it with Kinect's movement - based controls, and «now you're free of clickers and light pens to use your hands to for more expressive gestures,» Microsoft says.

Engaging with Aboriginal entrepreneurs and communities is much more than a philanthropic gesture, in the eyes of the Canadian Council of Aboriginal Business (CCAB).

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

Some attention to physical training and consideration of footwear is prudent, but the pilgrim will also find that «less is more» and that setting out is a very small gesture away from the securities of daily life and towards greater reliance on providence.

Weigel alludes to it, perhaps, when he laments our misunderstanding of freedom, and George gestures toward it more directly when he prophesies the end of Christian comfort.

When it got seriously underway in the mid-1980s, many thought home schooling was little more than another gesture of disgruntlement on the part of «the religious right.»

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.

But here the archetypes that the mythic gestures of beginning point to are much more explicit.

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.

I do not practice any religion and I think what he is doing is a beautiful gesture and I am sure is appreciated more than words can express by the victims of these and any other tragedies.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

The gestures gave added emphasis to the event, but more so, the physical raising of the hands was meant to be the exterior sign of the interior intention to focus on God alone.

A common criticism of Willow is that it's a show more than anything and that its studied nonuse of Christian symbols or liturgical gestures is a too - easy accommodation to modernity, the market and individualistic Christianity.

The Underground Man is a wonderful invention, and we would be poorer without him; but, as a fictional personality, he is only a vast collection of antic gestures, a tour de force of contradictions, and the nearer his wild emotional and intellectual oscillations approach a state of absolute incoherence, the more we are persuaded that he is a genuine psychological «type,» whose mysteries Dostoevsky has disclosed to us.

I can not nor dare not put your «cyanidical» gesturings being more or less than a pleasing of your faithfulness regarding ungodliness and godlessness.

issue, I will respond to that as well.Lot did offer his daughters as appeasement to the men of Sodom, it was an an unneeded gesture as the «men» who were visiting as his guests, were more than able to take care of themselves and Lots family, which they did.

As the Catholic News Agency notes, a friend of Roberta's, who witnessed the Pope's interaction with the woman, posted on Facebook, «It was very emotional to see how Pope Francis greeted Roberta... there are gestures in life that are worth more than speeches, much more than you would think... Pope Francis is unique»...

Bridging the divide takes more than symbolic gestures, wrote D. L. Mayfield, author of Assimilate or Go Home, who works with refugees and immigrants in Portland.

In Chagall, we may more reasonably look for moving power, symbols of transcendence, perhaps reasons of the heart, gestures of hope — or despair — for a fractured, atomized world.

He defies Assyria in two ways: he institutes elaborate religious reforms, always in the ancient East a gesture of independence; and even more brazenly, he undertakes extensive defense measures.

Because words were regarded as higher and more significant vehicles of truth than symbols, images, poetry, gesture, and the like, all forms of communication other than the verbal became suspect.

Not the Hale - Bopp Comet, not invaders from space, not Clinton as King Belshazzar redux, not wars or rumors of war, but instead the gracious and patient hand that reaches out to halt the ax, the merciful gesture woven into the fabric of life that stays all that would give up on the barren and the broken, the merciful voice that says, «Let's give this hopeless case one more year.

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I think the card ended up looking more like a threat than a gesture of one's love and admiration.

I couldn't think of a more perfect cake to make and he couldn't think of a nicer gesture - all the credit goes to you Heidi!

«If during each season of the term of this contract the player is not dismissed from the field of play on three or more occasions for violent conduct, spitting, for using offensive, insulting or abusive language and / or gestures and / or for dissent... then on the June 30 at the end of each season he shall receive a bonus payment of # 1 million.»

More significant for Weider, Monique Berlioux, the executive director of the International Olympic Committee, wrote to congratulate him, a gesture that gives Weider new hope that body - building will someday be an Olympic sport.

News of the # 3m payment felt all the more of a touchy subject on a night when Arsenal tickets were capped at # 10 for the Capital One Cup tie against Southampton, a gesture of goodwill at a club with notoriously expensive tickets in the Premier League.

Monreal benched is more of a token gesture than anything, as he'll be starting against Bayern.

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All referees occasionally have this kind of moment — it's a ridiculous job, with ridiculous hand gestures — but Mr. Dean seems to indulge himself more than most.

A series of gestures that should amount to nothing more than a few arm movements — advantage, goal, back to the halfway line — becomes, as Jamie Carragher put it, an impromptu tribute to Johnny Metgod.

Rangers wear shirts officially described as royal blue, and their supporters, often in an awesome choir of 50,000 and more, are in the habit of singing God Save the Queen as a gesture of loyalty to the Protestant monarchy.

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The likeable McDermott was an instant hit with the United faithful, even more so after his gesture of handing a 50 euro note to a travelling supporter during the pre-season tour of Slovenia.

Allardyce insists he does not regret his cupped ear gesture at the final whistle against Hull City, suggesting fans should be more appreciative of his side's results.

I've come to think of getting married as more akin to college or high school graduation than a romantic gesture or the real - life fairtyale we're led to believe it will be.

Typically, they will start with the signs and gestures that involve facial expression (blowing, panting), then whole arm signs (i.e., bye bye, clapping), then hand signs (i.e., more, milk) and finally signs involving various hand shapes and more dexterity (i.e., cat, pointing) Once they have internalized the meanings of the signs and have developed the cognitive and motor skills necessary to sign, they will communicate to you.

Body language: Soon after, she moves the position of her hand, so that her middle finger is across the top of her top lip, and her index finger is vertical, up the side of her right cheek.Meaning of the gestures: This is an even more critical analysis, becoming even more negative.

It was suggested to me over the weekend that the Conservative backing of DioGuardi is more of a goodwill gesture than anything else — a reward, if you will, for the former congressman's willingness to quit his longshot US Senate run in 2000 to clear the way for Rick Lazio to challenge Hillary Clinton.

«This means they may make more of these «interactive» gestures to ensure that the conversation goes smoothly.

In order to investigate why some people use hand gestures more than others, researchers from the University of Birmingham recorded the hand gestures of 122 native English speakers.

They found that people who struggled with visual memory, visualisation, and message planning in speaking made more «representational gestures», in which the speaker depicts a concrete or abstract concept with the shape or motion of the hands.

A team of researchers, led by Professor Sotaro Kita from the University of Warwick and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, found that empathic people made larger and more gestures that encouraged interaction with the listener.

As such, the battle for membership of the Single Market is nothing more than gesture politics and posturing.