Sentences with phrase «other grand gestures»

Back then I had all these romantic, sappy notions of what Valentine's Day should look like, and it involved candlelit dinners, roses and other grand gestures.

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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.

Sometimes this may be through listening to her concerns and other times it may be through grand romantic gestures.

Grand gestures and other - worldliness have been replaced by a quiet reflection on the physicality of our mechanised existence.»

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.

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.

None of these initiatives will remind folks of the War on Poverty or other grand federal gestures.