Sentences with phrase «sort of gesture»

The China - based company tweeted out over the past couple of days that the OnePlus 6 will have some sort of gesture controls, following in the OnePlus 5's footsteps.

SKIt seems like there is some sort of gesture away from a white cube, or a showcasing of someone's genius, or the quiet.

The one thing I found myself wanting to do when in multiplayer is wave or communicate via some sort of gesture to other players while waiting in the lobby and after finishing a race.

He appeared to make some sort of gesture at the police with an object in his hand just before they ordered him to lie down on the ground and took him away.

And somewhat embarrassingly, I even reached down and attempted to grab a lever - wondering if the PlayStation Eye camera would track those sorts of gestures.

You could twiddle virtual knobs and switches and see real - time feedback of that, or simply recreate the sort of gestures the iPhone X uses with iOS 11 only on a huge display that's invisible to those around you.

We don't want to see this feature bloated with all sorts of gestures, but it would be killer if you could scroll down a webpage or app using the sensor on the back.

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«He's often absent, but when he shows up it's some sort of an over-the-top symbolic gesture to assert his relevance when it doesn't really accomplish anything and people have to say, «What was the point of that?

No one has suggested anything of the sort, unless of course asking people to be aware of their privilege, listening to those who don't have it, and doing what they can to address it in their daily lives (see Mary Anne's comment for a beautiful illustration of how even small gestures make a difference) is something that comes «at personal cost.»

Nonverbal communication uses all sorts of language; gestures, symbols, overt acts, silences and attitudes.

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 to show that initial break, that initial change, some sort of outer symbolic gesture is also helpful to get the conversations rolling.

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

Perhaps it's a sense of obligation we have, sort of a polite gesture.

As I passed through the crowd the sellers saluted respectfully, bowing as they said, «Salaam, sahib;» then eagerly, but without clamor or violent gestures, besought me to purchase queer - looking eatables, utensils, ornaments, fabrics — in a word, all sorts of merchandise.

He's not one for romantic gestures, he hates Valentine's days and is only sort of enthusiastic about anniversaries.

This is the sort of cooking I do all too rarely — a sweet gesture for a special occasion.

It will be a sort of community - service gesture — the image.

What might have been a sweet gesture if we'd been seeing each other for a while seemed forced, like he was following some sort of guy list — Flowers?

His standard rhetorical technique when talking about Her Majesty's Opposition is the finger - jab of doom, a gesture of condemnation which was again and again inflicted on Labour like some sort of ultimate weapon.

It is now offering to donate # 20 million as a sort of goodwill gesture.

Converting one of its most controversial sites to a civilian R&D center «is clearly a face - saving gesture,» says physicist James Acton, a nonproliferation expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. «It's not clear what sort of research will be done at Fordow,» says Pierce Corden, a disarmament expert and visiting scholar at AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider).

In the office one might imagine using gestures to sort and rummage through mountains of files «like you would organize work spaces in your house,» Isbister says.

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.

When Chep offers a miniature Merry - Go - Round to his new love, it's not a futile gesture of the recently disabused, but an heirloom of sorts, passed down from his celluloid mother to her prospective replacement.

This is a sort of Kabuki, which throws the emphasis on archetypal gestures.

Worst of all, Peyton barely if at all references the game upon which it was based, even as an Easter egg for nerds like yours truly; but then again, that game itself was kind of a Frankensteinian hybrid of old - school monster movies, making this adaptation's departures feel like some sort of feeble and unsuccessful full - circle gesture to liberate its ideas from a derivative foundation.

Saintliness and cinema are an odd couple, enough so that auds will be caught off - guard by «This Is Martin Bonner,» a mood piece, a character study and an exercise in poetic gesture possessed of a sort of evanescent, secular spirituality.

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.

Who knows; maybe Charlotte Rampling will end up on the stage, some sort of conciliatory gesture from the H.F.P.A. for not nominating her for 45 Years last year.

However, substantially larger proportions of the same students reported experiencing four specific sorts of bullying: 62 percent reported having been belittled about their looks or speech; 56 percent said they had been hit, slapped, or pushed; 60 percent claimed they had been the subjects of rumors; and 52 percent indicated they had been subjected to sexual comments or gestures.

The Senate, in a largely symbolic gesture, recently voted to prohibit the U.S. Justice Department from taking «any sort of action» requiring the busing of students to schools other than those nearest their homes.

Volkswagen's new gesture control is included for the largest, 10.1 - inch screen on the dash, and the instrument panel is a completely digital, 12.3 - inch display that can be configured to display all sorts of information like navigation and infotainment.

Huawei's latest high - end Mate S is made out of metal with an optional variant in the future with a «Force Touch» display — they all come with Huawei's «Knuckle Sense 2.0,» which can offer up all sorts of shortcut gestures for you to take advantage.

Here, I thought, was a token gesture of indulgence, the same sort that spurs celebrities to adopt baby gorillas.

So you will see a similar swipe, gesture system, updated BBM and all sorts of cool UI elements.

That sort of defeats the purpose of intuitive gestures - they shouldn't need calling cards tied to them... but I don't know... it just feels like this is an area of the user experience that can still be improved.

It's a relaxing sort of game, where you will use swipe gestures to control your character as he travels, avoiding different hazards along the way.

In effect — as seen in Killzone: Shadow Fall — it can operate like a sort of mouse, and it offers all sorts of possibilities for developers — it supports multi-touch, so can read specific gestures.

While it's true that every artist expresses their own presence as well as the presence of the» subject» no matter what the medium or genre, the sort of rupture that existed between representational (mimetic) and nonrepresentational (gesture or phenomonological) in Carone's generation was so abrupt that it seems a good way of identifying the issues.

Both of these are white canvases that are also sculptural objects, and the Cattelan has a sort of humor to it, but it also references so much art history — propping pieces by Richard Serra, readymade works by Duchamp; you name it — so there's this very subtle, humorous gesture on Cattelan's part.

Dedications of this sort are indicative of the societal foundation of Martin's large - format compositions, as well as being gestures of devotion and solidarity.

In fact, Desiderio began his career as a sort of reluctant expressionist, fascinated with «fugitive» gestures, each temporally suggestive — the grandly bloody splotch pictured on the right panel of When I Last Saw Paris reads as a memento mori of this fascination.

You rarely see these two forms come together, and I wanted to see if I could create some sort of dialogue between gesture and text.»

Considered one of the greatest and most famous American painters, Jackson Pollock was a performer of sorts, an artist who dripped and smeared his paint onto the laying canvas through a series of movements and gestures, thus giving life to Action Painting.

«He always said he threw he's paint at the canvas to start, it was sort of like a violent gesture to get it started.

A major figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement, perhaps more than any other member of that group Still embodied the rejection of figuration and sort to demonstrate the visceral energy possessed by the combination of pure pigment and the emotive power of the gesture.

And we are left to ponder what sort of language — or system of signification — that these gestures could be constituting.

The work tends to share a sort of «bad art» flavor with Jean Dubuffet, the bodily roughness of Rebecca Warren, the playful gesture of Jonathan Lasker, and the high - art appeal of Ernesto Neto.

The film depicts the conservators handling the work according to a carefully choreographed sequence of movements and gestures, inducing what Byrne describes as «a sort of performativity in time».