Sentences with phrase «with symbolic gestures»

Fighting global warming with symbolic gestures will certainly not change this.

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.

Bridging the divide takes more than symbolic gestures, wrote D. L. Mayfield, author of Assimilate or Go Home, who works with refugees and immigrants in Portland.

With this in hand, we can then ask which better explains the observable pattern of internal deliberations, official discourse, symbolic gestures, and even the nature and timing of substantive foreign policy actions in the case in question.

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.

Paterson spokesman Morgan Hook said yesterday that the governor would not return 10 percent of his salary — or $ 17,900 — to the state treasury, as he did last year in a «symbolic» gesture of solidarity with budget - squeezed public - employee unions.

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.

In a symbolic gesture aimed at further healing relations with the gay community and burying the Tories» «nasty party» image, Mr Cameron this week apologised for Section 28 - the controversial law brought in by the Conservatives in 1988 banning local authorities from portraying homosexuality in a positive light.

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.

[10] doing away with it was a symbolic gesture, according to one of the program's last graduates, Tacey Miller.: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2015/05/13/the-final-class-of-the-north-carolina-teaching-fellows/

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

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.

In Bee's new landscapes and interiors, expressionist and symbolic intensity run riot, with striking pop imagery, linear gestures, and layered painterly textures.

Abstract Expressionism was all the rage, with its broad physical gestures, symbolic colors and passionately psychological implications.

Symbolically, Klein jumped out the window: he was involved with gesture, process (his «women brushes» painting with their bodies) and the symbolic (sponges soaked with his paint on monochromatic blue canvases).

Consistent with his past work, Haggerty maintains in these paintings a focus on the dynamic gesture of line that embodies not actual objects, but rather, actions or occurrences, like letters or other symbolic abstractions.

There was a time when she decorated her office with plaques and trophies, but she has packed away the hardware perhaps as a symbolic gesture to the next generation of real estate professionals who will succeed her.