Sentences with phrase «speak of gesture»

I make objects that speak of gesture, of temporal and spatial relationships.

Speaking of gestures, they have developed a new way to take advantage of multi-touch gestures, so two fingers will go forward or backwards two pages depending on where you are swiping the display screen.

Speaking of gestures with your knuckle, you can also knock on the display to take a screenshot.

Speaking of gestures, I'm pretty sure the Gear IconX have the most complex set of gesture controls I've seen on any wireless earbuds so far.

Not exact matches

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 best leaders know that actions speak louder than words — an adage recently exemplified by Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who responded with a touching gesture when tragedy struck one of the pizza chain's employees.

Your monologue takes the form of a dialogue, albeit one in which you speak words while they speak with gestures and facial expressions.

Admiral Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, gestures while speaking on October 19, 2015 in Laguna Beach, California at the opening of the 2015 WSJD Live.

As an Orthodox Christian definitely in the ecumenical «left wing» of my church, I can not speak for all my co-confessionalists; but I can record my own shame that so few Orthodox hierarchs have even recognized the remarkable gesture made by John Paul II in Ut Unum Sint (1995), in openly soliciting advice on how to understand his office (even indeed the limits of its jurisdiction), or been moved to respond with anything like comparable Christian charity.

They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.

Performance studies uses some of the raw materials of incarnational theology to imagine human speaking; preaching approaches the disciplinary terrain of performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech and gesture.

But, as you all know, these events have been characterized by a certain soberness and a moral earnestness that has left little room for some other important gestures of faith: I speak of joy and wonder.

Christians perform proscribed and improvised gestures, stand to speak and sit in silence, read and speak words, touch one another, eat, drink and sing as «signs of grace» which «prepare the Way of the Lord» and then expect transformation «make (his) paths straight!»

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).

Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies, and fortunately, when there aren't any cookies we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or a subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys, and nose - plugs, and uneaten danish, and soft spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction.

With all the eloquent silence of the Indian sign language, her gesture and attitude spoke to the youth and said: «I am here, I am ready.

Notice here that we do not use the words «spoken» and «heard,» because studies in communication have shown how much depends not only on explicit verbal content, but on appearance, gesture, and facial expressiveness as well as vocal tone and inflection, and how all of these are interpreted through the ethos of a particular congregation.

To put it somewhat differently, the biblical and patriotic gestures of his Letter and famous speeches allow him to conjure an atmosphere of love and loyalty — love of God, love of neighbor, loyalty to country, loyalty to place — even as he spoke forcefully about the need to resist evil.

I spoke of the earlier generation, influenced by the grand gestures of modernism and sensitive to the aggressive early twentieth - century secularist attacks on religion, as writers inclined to «shout.»

«But if they get masters like Lu, that's when you see some traction,» he added, gesturing to Lu Yang sitting to his left, while speaking to a room of Hong Kong's trade professionals and media.

Call it Kevinspeak, an informal assortment of gestures, finger spelling, lipreading and some speaking that illustrates specific aspects of the game.

Multiples often engage in twin talk, a spoken language or a language of gestures and body language.

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.

Speaking during the handing over ceremony on Thursday, the founder of Slum2School, Otto Orondaam, said the gesture was in line with the organisation's objective of -LSB-...]

Speaking to the students after the gesture, the MP said: «We are not unaware of the challenges we faced here due to the inadequate infrastructure and the fact that many have deteriorated even further after all these years.

Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), a beneficiary, Mrs Joy Udoh, thanked the state government for the kind gesture.

According to the wife of the late akan Drama Star Odompo, who spoke to Ghanapoliticsonline.com, the President himself checked up on her family, adding that she really appreciate that gesture.

It would be no small thing to have a power broker like Cuomo leading the charge, but until he takes legitimate action to prepare for a Trump presidency and the normalization of hate speech that has accompanied his candidacy, his promises will feel like just another callous gesture from a man who is more concerned with his own political trajectory than the actual well being of the people he claims to speak for.

Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle speaks to high school students and, in a gesture she probably thought was polite, noticed that some of the Hispanic students she expected «look more Asian to me.»

He is intelligent enough to make token gestures to win back the ABC1 votes that Labour lost: there will be much talk of speaking «on behalf of the whole nation».

Brookshire worked with Daniel Casasanto, assistant professor of psychology and leader of the Experience and Cognition Lab; Susan Goldin - Meadow, the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor of in the Department of Psychology and an acclaimed scholar of language and gesture; Howard Nusbaum, professor of psychology and an expert in spoken language and language use; and Jenny Lu, a PhD student specializing in sign language, gesture and language development.

In testing five different ways to convey Oldowan stone - knapping skills to more than 180 college students, the researchers found that the demonstration that used spoken communication — versus imitation, non-verbal presentations or gestures — yielded the highest volume and quality of flakes in the least amount of time and with the least waste.

Common forms of human communication include sign language, speaking, writing, gestures, and broadcasting.

After several weeks of listening to the tapes, Godfrey, who was severely disabled by his injury and unable to speak easily, slowly began to respond by gesture to questions asked by his therapist.

• Encouraging children to gesture at very early ages has the potential to increase the size of their spoken vocabularies at school entry.

Rather than assign physical gestures based on the literal meaning of a person's spoken words, the program focuses on prosody, the combination of vocal rhythm, intonation and stress.

These Nheengatú physical expressions are the type of visual language we expect to see in sign languages, but for spoken languages it is often assumed that all of the words should be audible, not visual, and that the gestures that come along with speech only give extra, peripheral meanings, and not the main information about the topic of talk.

The children seem to learn gestures very quickly, helping them grasp the meaning of spoken words.

The «superior» aspects (at the cognitive processing level) of spoken language are mapped to the motor - programs responsible for the production of both speech sounds and accompanying hand gestures.»

Scientists have found that the evolution of the control of speech and hand movements can be traced back to the same place in the brain, which could explain why we use hand gestures when we are speaking.

This means that gestures affect how meaning is interpreted, and we believe this points to the existence of a common cognitive system for gestures, intonation and rhythm of spoken language.»

Objective: To lay the groundwork for a general theory («Super Semantics») that will offer a comparative analysis of meaning in language (spoken and signed languages), in gestures, in music, and in primate communication, and will probe the cognitive and evolutionary origins of these diverse semantic systems.

We would like to recognize and say a heartfelt prayer for the donor and their family for making the ultimate gesture by gifting us the miracle of a better quality of life for C.T. Please know that when we spoke to C.T. today he was already talking about how grateful he is and that he was going to take care of this gift and continue to do all the things he believes he was born to do!

As for a tailor, I go to a kind man in Chinatown on Knapp St.. He doesn't have a store name that I know of and only speaks Cantonese, but I have many non-Chinese friends that go to him for straightforward jobs and just communicate through gestures.

When Pope Francis visited he spoke to our city about the importance of kind «little gestures.»

Language has not been a barrier at all when two people come to love truly each other, rather the language spoken between them in the forms of gestures and postures cement the relationship in a unique way.

While some people may be put off by the now speaking Lego characters it is good to note that they don't talk all the time and there are still plenty of cutscenes where they are just gesturing.

And if someone can speak volumes in a glance or a gesture without saying a word — or if cinematographer Roger Deakins can suggest menace and moral ambiguity by letting the camera slowly creep - glide into a performer's personal space (what Villeneuve calls the visual equivalent of «putting pressure on your characters»)-- he'd much rather do that.

While Lampoon is a thing of the past, Wain keeps A Futile and Stupid Gesture fresh with its zany narrative devices, while speaking louder to the modern - day anti-establishment.

I understood the qualms, but not one detractor I spoke to had attended any of the First Nations films distributed across the program, which might have furnished more organic proof of investment than clucking at the Festival's earnest if unavoidably inadequate gesture.