Sentences with phrase «symbolic gesture»

I just don't see it as a big deal and I think it's a proper symbolic gesture of peace for those who died.

Our culture is full of other symbolic gestures for showing such a break.

Crossing the bridge or riding the ferry over for events and meetings might be a mostly symbolic gesture, but the effort still matters to them.

There's nothing wrong with symbolic gestures, per se.

It's a grand symbolic gesture, inspiring, but there's no power in it.

Nationalistic rave harboured within collective groups has often found expression in symbolic gestures.

Members of the group SNAP (The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) planned to hold signs and hand out flyers urging Roman Catholic cardinals to stop making symbolic gestures about abuse and instead meet with victims and give case files to the authorities.

Since he became party leader, Cameron has done little to resolve these divisions but has mainly relied on keeping the issue low on the intra-party agenda and on placating hard Eurosceptics within his party with largely symbolic gestures such as pulling the Conservatives out of the European People's Party grouping in the European Parliament.

Apparently, doing away with «Fort Pataki» by opening up the second floor and removing the concrete barriers from around the state Capitol — admittedly both largely symbolic gestures by Cuomo — wasn't enough for Paladino.

And also, if the OT prophets were so good, how is it that such a commonplace prophecy, like Jesus's entry to Jerusalem on donkey takes prophetic priority over such major events as the Last Supper or the Foot Washing scene, an event that at least one commentary listed as one of the most important symbolic gestures ever made by Jesus.

In his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Sanford Biggers shines a light on the often overlooked political and cultural narratives in American history through symbolic gestures and imagery.

I wouldn't expect this to be the last symbolic gesture directed at the Common Core, but I think most states are now focused on helping teachers develop the most effective strategies for educating all students to high standards.

Perhaps most impressive is Hammons's ability to move between succinct, socially - embedded performance, and complexly layered, gallery - focused art that negotiates a fine line between baroque ornamentation and potent symbolic gesture.

Other symbolic gestures included custom - made furniture, a walk over a footbridge and the food on the menu at Friday night's banquet — attended by the leaders» wives.

«If people want to waste money and do symbolic gestures and start ratcheting down their cities» energy use and emissions and start putting in mandates for energy that doesn't produce the same for fossil fuels — more power to them.

«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?

Schneiderman's symbolic gesture sent ripples through the industry and pressured several large U.S. retailers to change how they book their staff hours.

He backed it up with the bold symbolic gesture of clearing the wall of patents that once graced the lobby of Tesla's headquarters.

The whole rationale of symbolic gestures requires that they disrupt and disturb the secular order.

The presence of some young people in parliament may act as a strong symbolic gesture to reengage young people in politics, potentially increasing their voting turnout.

Throughout the history of the Middle East, emotions such as humiliation, shame, hubris, vengeance and various symbolic gestures were and continue to be quite visible.

Every spring, Republican office holders make these stupid symbolic gestures (i.e. Confederate History Month) to demonstrate how macho they are to their wingnut constituents.

The accusations of bias against the fight against corruption are increasing by the day and critics easily find ready examples to argue that the fight is only cosmetic and showy and government is only making do with a few symbolic gestures as proof that it is serious.

I think sometimes people do a quick symbolic gesture and think they're helping (and have good intentions, of course), however wearing a pink ribbon doesn't change things like you said....

To paraphrase Will Rogers, Howard's never met a violin swell, standing ovation, or hackneyed symbolic gesture he didn't like, and A Beautiful Mind is stuffed to bursting with soulless tearjerks.

So, when he tosses out the notion of $ 20 billion for school choice, I don't think it's more than a short - lived symbolic gesture.

The Obama administration has recently urged Congress to add the issue to its already crowded 2010 agenda, even going so far as to include an additional $ 1 billion for K — 12 education in its budget proposal if the law is reauthorized this year (a wholly symbolic gesture, given that it is Congress that sets spending levels, but one that indicates the administration's priorities).

So instead of asking our vacation guests to donate, we have committed to take a portion of what they already spend and give them a travelers» philanthropy gift card whereby they donate it back in a final symbolic gesture.

In a nicely symbolic gesture Piranha Bytes manages to say goodbye to much of the pirate goodness of the second game with the death and resurrection of the player character, who largely ditches his pirate affiliations for the greater good, setting the stage for an adventure that takes place in Risen 2's world, but with more emphasis on traditional fantasy and only a little pirateness.

Khvay often uses his own body — incorporating symbolic gestures and ritual — to personalize the impact of colonial infrastructures on Cambodia's communities and land, and what this means for future generations.

Arman chose the earth, Pascal, words, while Klein chose the ethereal space surrounding the planet, which he then proceeded to sign: With this famous symbolic gesture of signing the sky, Klein had foreseen, as in a reverie, the thrust of his art from that time onwards a quest to reach the far side of the infinite.

In a space of such personal poignancy, endowed with erotic charge, Burr's symbolic gestures reclaim and recuperate modernism's utopic aspirations from the failures of a racist and sexist past.

I love his large, minimal paintings with simple, symbolic gestures like small dabs of paint in the form of actual SIM cards.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925 — 1972) made his living as an optician in Lexington while creating enigmatic photographs featuring friends and family members posed in abandoned places, often wearing masks or enacting symbolic gestures.

A sense of magic realism permeates the images, which range from shots of Aztec ruins, rooster fights, and street footage to portraits of the artist performing symbolic gestures meant to convey Wojnarowicz's sense of powerlessness over the purposeful indifference of the American government and public to the AIDS epidemic.

It was a powerful symbolic gesture from Saatchi when he opened his gallery just upriver of the phenomenally successful Tate Modern.

The campaign began shortly after President Obama made a largely symbolic gesture by banning the use of solitary confinement for all juveniles in the federal system.

Ukraine's newly elected president, Petro Poroshenko, has also made important symbolic gestures.

The most hackneyed standbys of coming - to - America humor — the discovery of pizza, confusion about relationships and religions — get trotted out, and the selfish J.B. has to repeatedly redeem himself (to Ash, Rinku, Dinesh, and Brenda, the generic love interest played by Bell) through symbolic gestures.

U.S. President Donald Trump hailed «big progress» as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to halt nuclear testing, a largely symbolic gesture that appeared aimed at softening the ground for talks between the two leaders.

Perhaps most impressive is Hammons's ability to move between succinct, socially - embedded performance, and complexly layered, gallery - focused art that negotiates a fine line between baroque ornamentation and potent symbolic gesture.

It doesn't replace federal printed currency, but augments it by getting people to make the practical and symbolic gesture of supporting local businesses before national chains.

In 1997, Robinson's uniform number, 42, was retired across all of MLB, a symbolic gesture unmatched in the history of American team sports.