Sentences with phrase «of gestures toward»

In her newest infinity rooms, the continuity of these gestures toward the infinite leads us down a poetic tunnel through an easy, soft, melancholy transition into the afterlife.

Maybe this is what a healing art might be made of, or if not healing, a series of gestures toward its possibility.

Outside of its gestures toward genre heritage, Saulnier's story says less than it seems set on, despite its silences.

Not exact matches

Rubin gestures toward a very large Nerds box (the World's Largest Box of Nerds, in fact), a wall of Hello Kitty gear, and another featuring Marilyn Monroe T - shirts, lunch boxes, and even chocolate bars with her face on the wrapper (the company recently bought the exclusive candy rights to her likeness).

Christian sentimentality wants to transcend the material reality of the world, gesturing toward it only with stock abstractions — Grandma's hands, baby feet, home sweet home — that have no correspondence with the actual physical world, in order to get to a prearranged rendezvous of feeling.

The chapter «Magdalena Apostola» dismisses some fantastic extrapolations of the role of Mary of Magdala (yet some gesture toward an authentic treatment of this saint, whose feast day the universal church celebrates each year, would be welcome).

No one really knows how much it has declined or what percentage of all those who now make some gesture toward AA eventually become affiliated with the fellowship and recover.

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.

Although Whitehead makes the necessary gestures toward true propositions and even truth itself, he is adamant in maintaining that the real import of a proposition in the process view of the world is that it be interesting, not true (AI 244; PR 224/343, 259 / 395f).

The state knows something of mercy; for no civilized penal code is without its gesture toward the possible restoration of the wrongdoer to society.

For in our most public gestures and pronouncements Christians in this country rarely display this sort of generosity toward each other.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

`... we now need to consider how the discovery of «natural cooperation» — as what Martin Nowak calls the «third fundamental principle of evolution» (alongside mutation and natural selection)-- might (help)... theology and metaphysics (need) together (to) strive to complete the vision toward which evolutionary cooperation seemingly gestures... the phenomenon of cooperation... provides a significant modification of the «nature red in tooth and claw» image that Darwinism early accrued to itself...

None of us can be or should be immune from such influence, but with this essay I wanted at least to gesture toward what I learned through friends.

Here Augustine echoes his conclusions in Book XII of the Confessions and gestures toward his philosophy of history in the City of God.

With exaggerated gestures and abrupt facial expressions that he has developed over the years, and with appropriate strains of strings and brass in the background, Schuller painted word - pictures of America's achievements over the years and her magnanimity toward other nations and their peoples.

The movie does offer a slight gesture toward the Holy when, in moments of great awe, characters touch their foreheads as if they were about to make the sign of the cross.

At most, all he could do was point to temporality, the ceaseless flow of beings out of nothingness and into nothingness again, and then — in a gesture that often seems as much one of hopelessness as of «piety» — point away toward the mysterious Ereignis, the «appropriating event,» that somehow brings this about.

My list of the «uses» of liberal studies was not intended as exhaustive, but was a set of gestures, clumsy ones perhaps, toward the conclusion (explicitly stated in the article) that «liberal studies can be shaped into instruments of worship.»

In his next he had only one hit, a line drive to left which he stretched to a double with a terrific burst of speed, but he also walked three times, stole second once and another time so bothered the opposing pitcher with his dancing, threatening gestures toward second that the batter, Bill Skowron, was eventually able to pick out a fat pitch and smack it over the wall.

Tariku dove headfirst into the waves over and over, popping up with his arms outstretched toward the sky in a gesture of pure joy.

A simple gesture as using the back burners to cook when children are around, or remembering to turn all pot handles toward the back of the stove, can go a long way.

It's also the vague platitudes dished out as a gesture toward solidarity or empathy, much of which fails to really hit home, especially when it's mediated through a computer screen.

Point or gesture to communicate his thoughts and feelings; for example, when given a choice between two boxes of cereal, he may point or reach toward the one he wants.

These included «conduit» gestures where the palm of the hand faces upward and moves toward the listener as if to present an idea to them.

While also not reaching levels of empirical research, some preliminary interview research that I've been conducting has gestured toward similar findings.

In the other case, a former State Senate majority employee and a former local official was accused of «sexually oriented physical contact, gestures, threats and unwanted exposure to pornographic materials» in a 2009 lawsuit allgeging misconduct toward a woman staffer in the Senate's Buffalo office.

He gestured toward the retirement of the «legendary» Margolis — who recently dropped her bid for the seat amid fallout from a disparaging comment she made about her opponents — as the impetus for his announcement.

But supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis and Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich have made some of the preliminary gestures toward entering the race.

When 29 tried to get her pup back, 12 got in front of the pup and made threatening gestures toward 29.

The grant application was unsuccessful, but it was, nonetheless, an important gesture toward independence: Gelhaus still spends about 10 % of her time working on that project.

He gestures toward a broad expanse of office wall, decorated with framed covers of medical journals that have given top billing to results published by the institute's research teams.

There are a lot of houses down there that are still empty,» he adds, gesturing toward the riverbank.

Demirköz gestures toward the bladed shaft in front of her, which stands 25 meters high.

Toward this end, in the 1980s, Rosenthal started studying covert communication: the nonverbal language of vocal tone, facial expressions, posture and gestures that make up the bulk of human expression.

No one is to talk, make eye contact, touch, or gesture toward other students; there's complete segregation between males and females; there is no phone or internet; there is no outside food, book, writing materials or cameras; there is no yoga, jogging or exercise (except walking); and, of course, there is no smoking, alcohol, or other drugs.

I was struck by this thoughtful gesture of the client's toward its models for the evening.

So, regardless of how nervous you're feeling, do your best to maintain eye contact, stand with your feet shoulder - width apart, and make hand gestures away from your body — rather than small movements toward yourself.

Gesturing toward her yoga pants and navy - blue puffer, she continues: «I just have this sense of entitlement that I should be able to feel comfortable at all times, like I could go to bed at any moment in what I'm wearing.»

The number of positive or negative words / gestures you yourself are making toward your partner.

Voiceovers build on top of voiceovers, and we feel as if we're simply getting to know these people a little better, even while Rees is gesturing toward things to come.

Power makes a few gestures toward a moral conflict in the character of Chook, but overall it's simply assumed that they do these things because they're bad, evil men.

47 Ronin could have been a landmark of sorts in the advancement of Asian actors in the Hollywood mainstream beyond token and sidekick roles, but when the material they're given is as third - rate and lifeless as this, such gestures toward progress can't help but seem hollow at best.

One of the sublime pleasures of Avengers: Infinity War is watching Holland agog as two alpha male Sherlocks — Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr. as the arrogant Tony Stark / Iron Man — gaze on one another with disdain, the former gesturing toward young Peter Parker and sneering, «Who is that, your ward?»

Set in gritty Oxnard, Calif., the film boasts an almost entirely Latino cast of characters — a welcome gesture toward a huge filmgoing demographic that rarely gets to see itself onscreen — while smart casting and production design help capture the flavor of the environs with only moderate deployment of cultural stereotypes.

I'd have mustered up the weakest, croakiest laugh my poor, disappointment - withered frame could muster and gestured limply toward the last few years» Q4 release schedules with all the zesty fervour of a broken seaside claw crane swinging listlessly in its case.

Mr. Michôd, whose previous films include «Animal Kingdom,» a gamy crime drama, and «The Rover,» a dusty post-apocalyptic thriller, gestures toward the grim futility of the war on the ground.

The title is more of a symbolic gesture toward a society that represses intelligence until it self - destructs, and in that regard, the movie couldn't be more timely.

The refractive use of reflective surfaces recalls Kiarostami's final masterwork Like Someone in Love, while the fraught gestures toward tenderness bring to mind the coda to Bresson's Pickpocket.

Writer McQuarrie meanwhile has been on the other end of the spectrum, writing The Way of the Gun as in - your - face as possible, a two - fingered gesture toward the major studios who wouldn't allow him creative control.