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«To the sound itself the conductor adds the italics and punctuation of gesture, of strained arms, of startling tautness of the shoulders, of brisk nod, of hands flung apart in some wild appeal to the universe.»
Author: Christopher Andreae | Keywords: brisk, conductor, conductors, flung, gesture, nod, punctuation, strained, tautness
«These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.»
Author: Dr. Frederick Leboyer | Keywords: gesture, implore, imploring, stretch out
«What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.»
Author: Marcel Marceau (Mime Artist) | Keywords: gesture, mime, mimes, represent, sculptors
«Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.»
Author: Patricia Fripp | Keywords: feelings, gesture, intellect, movement, represent, sound, The Sound
«The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.»
Author: Shana Alexander (Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher) | Keywords: gesture, grander, sugarplum
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: dramatic, dramatic performance, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, finality, followers, frightfulness, gesture, grandiose, grim, lighthearted, make-believe, mask, participating, selves, solemn, spectacle, staged, tasks, theatrical, theatricals, unreal
«You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: gesture
«The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Keywords: award, awarded, awarding, Chief Executive, corporation, executive, frequently, gesture, salaries, salary
«The gesture and the tone, The entrance and the exit. ?»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: entrance, exit, gesture
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