The phrase
"small gestures" refers to simple and often trivial actions or behaviors that can have a meaningful impact on someone's feelings or well-being.
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Even
small gestures like offering to get coffee, holding the elevator or listening before speaking don't go unnoticed.
I bet your partner feels just as cared for when you
make small gestures for him or her to make their day better too.
You can build love through
small gestures such as a smile or a hug, and by giving and receiving joyful sexual intimacy.
It is amazing what a proactive
small gesture on your part can do to help someone rise.
Knowing how these simple things can greatly impact my existence, I can strive to provide the same life - changing experiences to others through
similar small gestures.
In order to feel alive in your marriage, you need to put effort into spending quality time together — with an emphasis on
giving small gestures of love.
We're on a mission to make every guest stay memorable
with small gestures that make a big difference.
While you should be doing so all the time,
small gestures such as this help to maintain your relationships.
Her four Tangled Tips (Lines for Zion) drawings from 2000, subtle studies
in small gestures of ink on blue paper, share a rhythm with four oil and enamel on paper paintings from the Community series (2013) on the opposite wall.
In high fashion, an industry where whiteness and thinness are still too often held up as ideals, companies can get a lot of credit for relatively
small gestures toward feminism.
They are reined in by architectonic structures, broad fields of color are interrupted
by smaller gestures and idiosyncratic forms... his work has a palimpsest effect, where layers of previous activity bleed through the final layers of paint.»
For Wolniak, there is a meditative effect in repetitive action, and the accumulation of intricate, layered marks yield phenomenological fields: «Millions of
small gestures add up to create spatial energy that is not necessarily about my hand.»
Giving attention to the daily rituals such as making a bed, folding or tidying stuff, Tomasko invites us to engage with and to look squarely
at small gestures that make us human.
Whether you take your kids to a movie, dinner and a movie, or just stay home and make crafts or watch a flick, children
appreciate small gestures and love their parents unconditionally; therefore, they are the best dates.
In one of my favorite romantic comedies, Hitch, Alex Hitchens advises one of his mentees, Albert Brennaman, on how to break the touch barrier with a woman he loves in a non-sleazy way — that is,
using small gestures of physical touch to increase intimacy.
You could say «I wanted it to be this big [
small gesture] instead of this big [large gesture].
In its best moments, where
only small gestures tell us so much about the characters, that's touching and heart - warming, but of course little spectacular and sometimes a little slow.
How to speak this love language: Speak purposefully and thoughtfully, express gratitude when receiving a gift, give a meaningful gift, remember that small gestures matter
Francis Lee's feature debut, God's Own Country, is a moving coming - of - age story and a swoon - worthy romance
about small gestures that signal major changes.
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Small gestures seen in the careful assemblage of tiny dots across long horizontal bands subvert the language of minimalism by opening up the vocabulary to something more specific, worked, shaped.
Speaking of cards, businesspeople get a lot of prefabricated ones and what - not,
so small gestures that create real human connections can have an outsized impact.
The president of the Sochi organizing committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, told USA TODAY Sports last month that there will be no repercussions at the Olympics for anyone who wears rainbow pins or makes
other small gestures in response to the legislation.
Their leaders devote enormous time and imagination to
devising small gestures and little symbols that send big messages about what it takes for everyone to be at their best every day.
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.
In his quiet breakfasts with Cyril, and how Alma's vivacious energy throws the sibling relationship out of balance, one sees a lifelong connection in just a
few small gestures.
Jesús «Bubu» Negrón creates sculptures and performances by
inserting small gestures into the everyday landscape: for example, creating a carpet out of cigarette butts collected by street sweepers, or mending a cracking bronze public sculpture with a plaster cast.
And lastly, a new QuickType functionality allows punctuation, alternate characters, and numbers to be accessed from one keyboard by simply
via small gestures on a key.
Small gestures count — so use titles like «Mr.» and «Mrs.» that convey respect, or invite the teacher to call you by your first name.
In the United States, people
find small gestures like showing compassion or snuggling with a child as the most loving, while controlling behaviors are seen as the least loving.