Unfortunately, the more people that are involved in a grand gesture, the more opportunities for said grand gesture to go horribly wrong.
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The show was a challenge, but I liked a grand gesture.
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My father, his grand gesture made, appeared resigned to whatever might happen.
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In a grand gesture of maternal sacrifice, Turner vows to give him up.
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Needless to say, it's ear-catching and a grand gesture of what's to come.
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Your anthropologists will tell you that communal eating is a grand gesture of harmony.
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There's no over-the-top bouquet of flowers, no Champagne, and definitely no grand gesture.
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Hatch deciding that he's seen enough -- and waving everyone out in one grand gesture. 18.
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It didn't occur to me to throw it away as some sort of grand gesture.
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His white bearded face is everywhere and he is a master of the grand gesture.
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Conte has turned around Chelsea not with one grand gesture but with countless small ones.
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Building and maintaining that kind of atmosphere requires more than the occasional grand gesture, however.
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By making such a grand gesture in the form of a letter, Swift broke both rules.
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Both know the effect of a grand gesture, and, ultimately, that is what brought them together.
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Is it any wonder that Trump craved a grand gesture for all the world to behold?
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He started sitting during the anthem without any other grand gesture, only acknowledging his reasons when asked.
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This is only the latest grand gesture that the company has bestowed upon its devoted fan base.
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His town of Westerly, Rhode Island, helped make that wish come true with one grand gesture Sunday.
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In the face of the outcry against Trump's executive order, such a grand gesture makes for good optics.
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And there's the square, handsome love interest who seems ripe to be swept away by a grand gesture.
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Their steamy chemistry propels Rainer to make one final grand gesture to impress Paige once and for all.
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You need a grand gesture to solve it, and you eventually need them to find one another again.
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Doesn't have to be some grand gesture, I'm talking a simple hello with the potential to become a chat.
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That they went ahead and let me do it felt like either a grand gesture or the ultimate dismissal.
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He added that Via Cava was a lovely person who seemed the type to make such a grand gesture.
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It was a kind and grand gesture of hospitality, a testament of the power of guanxi (connection) in China.
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But there has been no sign from Trump of a "grand gesture" that could bolster Netanyahu as a candidate.
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Roman, on the other hand, again attempts to make a grand gesture to wow his dad and fails miserably.
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" He suggested Trump could "make a grand gesture like say 'you know what, I am representing all the people.
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It wasn't a sufficiently grand gesture to bring Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to the negotiating table.
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It was a grand gesture, yet of the kind an introverted kid could make alone, with no one noticing.
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In order to maintain his image as a dealmaker, Trump needed to pull off some kind of grand gesture.
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I read it all as a kind of social artwork, a decades-long grand gesture about the importance of art.
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Despite his grand gesture, Cooper admits she has feelings for the French-speaking newcomer — but Kimball is willing to wait.
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The grand gesture worked, but ever since then, she was reportedly on call during snowstorms when other employees called out.
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Love makes people do all sorts of absurd things, and Guinness World Records is there to document every grand gesture.
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It was shortly after his son's death that Hughes decided to make a grand gesture in the name of his cause.
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"I love that idea, and I've had that happen in real life—a grand gesture that just doesn't work," said Gordon.
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Miles Teller knew he wanted to make a grand gesture when proposing to his girlfriend of four years, model Keleigh Sperry.
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If you owned so much, you could afford to trample it underfoot in a grand gesture, turning everything into a game.
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And in a grand gesture of fraternal love, he flies to Wichita in order to connect Hollyhock with her mother, Henrietta.
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Despite the uproar that would set off, we know by now that Mr. Trump loves the grand gesture, whatever the consequences.
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It was more of a wild stumbling back from the edge of a cliff than a grand gesture of self-care.
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Republicans and Democrats came together Friday in a grand gesture of bipartisanship and voted to fund the government … for seven more days.
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Just as it would be a grand gesture you giving food if any Argentina or Brazil player was to score a goal.
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At one point, he sells the only real advantage he has, his horse, in order to make a grand gesture for Laurey's affection.
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The grand gesture didn't last too long because the man reportedly didn't have a ticket and had to leave after popping the question.
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This is grand-gesture acting of a singularly sophisticated and disciplined order, one of those rare instances in which more is truly more.
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Nobody ever looks like they're having fun performing at awards shows—usually it's more about making some kind of grand gesture—but Anderson .
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The grand gesture goes back to Godfrey's freshman year, when he passed out flowers anonymously to about 30 girls, he told CNN affiliate KUTV.
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Moreover, her own record there and as secretary of state suggests pragmatism and a commitment to incremental improvement, not radicalism and the grand gesture.
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" Here are some more X-factors, via Frank: "Level of ambition: Trump typically likes the grand gesture, but the moment calls for calibrated steps.
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In that light, his move seems less like a grand gesture of a rare promise-keeping politician than a cynical act of political calculation.
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But officials said it was largely because Mr. Trump's grand gesture of inviting the Taliban to Camp David to finalize the deal fell apart.
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At the end of Always Be My Maybe, Sasha and Marcus finally put their differences aside and reunite in the traditional rom-com Grand Gesture.
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The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, 38, set the internet ablaze on Thursday afternoon when she began posting videos from her husband's grand gesture.
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This is a marvelous time for a grand gesture, but be smart about how mushy and sentimental you get, because Saturn is not into that.
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An anonymous tip alerted the FBI to the Chekov painting hanging in Alice's bedroom, which Ben stole for her in a criminally romantic grand gesture.
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She feels she needs to do some grand gesture to show her friends she is sorry for helping AD. Ezra stops her just in time.
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During a visit to China in 1976, he planned to make a grand gesture by returning it to a senior Communist Party official, Guo Moruo.
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It was supposed to be a grand gesture that demonstrated that he was above politics and therefore more worthy of the presidency than his opponent.
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So he made a grand gesture, planning a four-day weekend in Las Vegas and buying tickets to see her favorite country singer, Jason Aldean.
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The determined actor left the stage and proceeded to re-enter three more times until he finally found the grand gesture that fit him best.
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We get that grand gesture at the end of the second season when Rick (SPOILERS!) decides to sacrifice his freedom for the safety of his family.
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One of the worst tropes that Christmas rom coms -- and let's face it, one divisive movie in particular -- perpetuate is the power of the grand gesture.
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These celebrities play out fantasies on screen everyday, and that line gets blurred with each and every grand gesture in every rom-com or epic love story.
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To return to Michaelangelo, this is the comment of someone who only sees Adam's small penis and not the grand gesture of God giving life to humanity.
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After making a grand gesture of an apology to Jenna Cooper for his behavior last week, Jordan Kimball starts off Monday's episode feeling confident in his relationship.
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Anyone looking for a grand gesture (or even the smallest twig of an olive branch) on the issue, well, this wasn't the speech for that on immigration.
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Sometimes things pile up and frustrations mount and you just want to make a grand gesture of some kind that shows the world exactly what you're thinking.
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If this was a romantic comedy, it would be the scene in the movie where the possibly-misguided young man goes way overboard with a grand gesture.
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They pull off the idea that one grand gesture is all that it takes to fall in love again and wash away a history of starts and stops.
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One theory is that You builds on a rom-com trope that persistence and making a grand gesture is what "good" men need to do to win women over.
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In keeping with the view that Western detainees, particularly Americans, are held as part of a bigger political scenario, it is often some grand gesture that precedes a release.
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With the help of friends, Jacob Staudenmaier went for a grand gesture, recreating the opening scene from La La Land to send the invite to the best actress winner.
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On one hand, Toby has plenty going for him in the "good boyfriend" column, from the grand gesture at Christmas to showing her the "celebrity treatment" on a date.
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I loved these movies and their handwritten letters, expensive chocolates, and gifts—a romcom hero could have called anything a grand gesture and I would have lapped it up.
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She completed the grand gesture by bringing along a bag full of her go-to order: a Combo 8 with three soft tacos (hold the lettuce) and a Sierra Mist.
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It's No. Cardi doesn't have to take Offset back because of a grand gesture that was deliberately manipulative, disrespectful of her boundaries and took away her shine as a headliner.
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If you're coupled, you feel the pressure to make a grand gesture, and if you're (unhappily) single, you feel the disgust of being surrounded by over-the-top romantic gestures.
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"Missing Richard Simmons" pulled off a grand gesture of camp—describing the failed pursuit of an impossible object of desire—but floundered in its effort to morally defend that pursuit.
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Logan proves he's still the master of the grand gesture, even presenting Rory with the keys to his family's house in Maine so that she can write her book in privacy.
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We don&apost trust them and they don&apost trust us and everybody is waiting for the grand gesture to put the ring on it so we know this is real.
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This is the opposite of sacrifice, of any logic of exchange: It is a desire to simply annihilate self, other, and one's entire world in a single grand gesture of destruction.
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I don't think he grasps that this is something she needs to do by herself and that sometimes it doesn't require a grand gesture and sometimes, Toby, it's just not about you.
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Trump loves a grand gesture and would likely have wanted to announce a big win in Hanoi, but after two highly publicized summits returned limited tangible results, experts advised a fresh approach.
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RELATED: Obama has 'blunt' meeting with Putin All presidents use speechmaking as a tool of power -- especially those like John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan who appreciated the politics of the grand gesture.
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In 2014, she created a non-profit called Stockings from Karen that honors her foster mom's grand gesture of giving her a gift-filled stocking that first Christmas away from her family.
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This is certainly not the bold exciting response that people shocked by the SeaTac incident want to hear, but at least it's more focused and relevant than a symbolic, meaningless grand gesture.
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This time, it's by way of a chat with his puppy-dog protégé, Michael (Kevin Bigley), who's fretting that it would be a "meaningless grand gesture" if he proposed to his girlfriend.
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On Monday, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former president and elder statesman of the party, said in a newspaper column that Mr. Temer should make a "grand gesture" and cut short his mandate.
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In his second term, and especially in the past few months, as he enters what the Washington Post recently called the "grand-gesture stage," Obama has emerged as a champion of conservation.
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Developed, shot and marketed in secret as The Woods, the title twist revealed this summer at Comic-Con ultimately goes to waste, as Blair Witch fails to prove worthy of the grand gesture.
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Barack Obama, in particular, has made it clear he has little patience for diplomacy by grand gesture, and believes that shaping world affairs is a matter of small nudges rather than visible shoves.
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Rather than claim to contain the end-all, be-all solution in some grand gesture, the strength of the "34,000 Pillows Project" lies in its admission that its goal is beyond its grasp.
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He looks askance at the big statement, the grand gesture, the heroic expressionist pose — to him rock & roll means playing a good show for the crowd every night, every week, every month, indefinitely.
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From the meet cute and the grand gesture to the change of heart and "the rom-com monologue", there isn't a generic base the show hasn't hit without simultaneously thumbing its nose at it.
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She had rejected Bill's marriage proposals, and in a last-ditch effort to win her over, he decided to buy the house, hoping that his grand gesture might finally convince Hillary to say yes.
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The sculpture, simply titled "Scultura C (Infinito)" ("Sculpture C [Infinite]," 1969), embodies the contradictions of Melotti's art: it simultaneously steps forward and pulls back, effects a grand gesture while making a virtue of reticence.
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Though the expansion involved razing its former neighbor—a handsome building by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, home to the American Folk Art Museum—this is an architecture of subtle intervention, not grand gesture.
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I won't reveal his identity here (although if you're reading this without having seen the movie, you're just asking for spoilers!) but let's just say that Simon organizes a grand gesture and Blue shows up.
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Those who campaigned for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union see themselves as the heirs to the more muscular British tradition of the grand gesture and the soaring vision — quite the opposite of Little Englanders.
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Even the lowly and loathsome Dan Colen, whose grand gesture was to tip over a row of motorcycles moments before the opening of his first solo show at Gagosian, is still around and getting by.
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She didn't invite him in when he showed up at her door to plead his case, but with Toby as his romance advisor, it's a good bet we'll see a grand gesture in an upcoming episode.
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This last dimension was deepened by the grand gesture of the film's title, identical to that of D. W. Griffith's 1915 adaptation of the novel "The Clansman," a paean to the Confederacy and the Ku Klux Klan.
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The company was in need of some serious additions to its barely-there security measures and it also needed to make a grand gesture (or two) to Wall Street following multiple PR disasters over the last two weeks.
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While banning Yiannopoulos following a day of hatred spewed unceasingly at a black actress is a Grand Gesture, it belies, yet again, a complete and fundamental lack of understanding by Twitter of the harassment problem on its site.
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Later Thursday, Bill Burck, a lawyer who oversaw the process of providing Bush administration documents, undercut Booker's grand gesture, saying that the material in question had been cleared on Wednesday night at the request of the senator's staff.
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A grand gesture at a football game leads to him being gently rejected by Abby, which in turn causes Martin to out Simon to the whole school as a means of distracting his classmates away from his own humiliation.
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While the model says she thinks "Valentine's Day can put a lot of pressure on everyone," if you're going for the grand gesture, "roses and an intimate dinner always make it special, as cliché as it sounds," she says.
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The Trumpification of Mangan is the revival's grand gesture, and a sign that the director, Darko Tresnjak, currently represented on Broadway by "Anastasia," is anxious to make a case for the continued relevance of this century-old Shaw work.
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It is high time for the international community to come together in a grand gesture that will see one of the world's most persecuted populations of stateless people become productive and return a sense of dignity to their lives.
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It might not sound like a particularly grand gesture, but my cousin gave me a framed collage of some of my favorite tweets for Christmas, and I'm slightly embarrassed to admit it's one of the best gifts I've ever received.
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Mr. Kitchen works fast and loose on tablet-size canvases, reducing painting's proclivity for grand gesture to a series of intimate scribbles, lines, dots, notional marks and hints of initials and artists' signatures, as well as landscape studies and textile design.
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As if in a grand gesture of atonement, the fighting was followed by a cultural renaissance that produced new forms of Buddhist art, nearly 50 superb examples of which are in "Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan" at Asia Society.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads President Emmanuel Macron's recent announcement that France will send the Bayeux Tapestry to England in a historic loan was a grand gesture of cultural diplomacy, but such a move across the channel might be a pipe dream.
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"I don't want him to base any decisions off me," she added, while unbeknownst to her, he had already ended the entire show by sending the two other women packing as a final grand gesture to prove his love for Cassie Cassie.
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This isn't the only grand gesture he's made for his family lately: In March, he scooped up a new home that he said was "perfect for my bachelor life and my dad life," and has been busy remodeling it to fit both lifestyles.
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By the time the 12-minute set reached it's climax, you felt that Prince had done the whole thing on purpose; had called down the weather for dramatic effect, a grand gesture to amplify the musical intensity of this tiny purple god.
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Now she has opened a store on Madison Avenue — and not just a store, but a grand gesture: 2,000 square feet of stomping ground on one of the ritzier blocks in Upper East Side shopping territory, right across from Lanvin and Dolce & Gabbana.
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On Friday night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel, 51, and Dion, 51, pulled off the grand gesture for Jason and Kate, both majors in the Air Force, while the late-night show taped a special week of episodes in Kimmel's hometown of Vegas.
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In another grand gesture of philanthropy, the media mogul David Geffen has given $150 million to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest single cash gift from an individual in the museum's history and the biggest gift to the museum's new building.
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Threlkeld Journal THRELKELD, England — It was to have been a grand gesture, a deal that would transfer a mountain in the fabled English Lake District from the landed gentry to those who roam its heights, reversing a centuries-old pattern of ownership by the upper-crust few.
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Shortly after IS was driven out in March, Russia displayed its own understanding of the ancient city's symbolic value when it flew in the Mariinsky Orchestra from St. Petersburg to play a concert in the amphitheater, a grand gesture meant to trumpet the triumph of civilization over barbarians.
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As was noted by H.A. Hellyer of the Atlantic Council, a think-tank, the visit appeared to be a grand gesture by the Sunni kingdom to show Lebanese Christians that they will be better served by keeping to the Sunni side of an ever deepening strategic fault-line.
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It was meant to be a grand gesture: In my mind, I was going to ambush him, tell him that I wanted to have sex right-here-right-now-in-this-bathroom, and he'd be so won over by my nonchalant attitude that he'd finally love me back.
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You know that, in most cases, boy will meet girl; girl and boy will fall in love; something will come along to separate boy and girl; boy will make a grand gesture and win back girl; they will live happily ever after — or at least until the sequel.
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It's a grand gesture to get the heat off of him, but the fact that he didn't just donate the money and leave himself out of it proves that he's going to keep being the same Paul — you know, the one who went to Japan and threw Pokeballs at Japanese people.
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If you have a mountainous task to vanquish, consider the "grand gesture" approach: When J. K. Rowling found herself struggling to complete the final book in her Harry Potter series, she booked a suite at the five-star Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh and stayed there until her book was finished.
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While the appearance of the gigantic baby Trump balloon has become a trademark of British anti-Trump protests, a group of activists made their own grand gesture by cutting a picture of a huge penis and the words "Oi Trump" near an airport that Trump was scheduled to fly into.
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"China is trying to showcase to the world its goodwill and friendship by taking a similar approach to its famous 'panda diplomacy'," said Wang Huiyao, president of the Centre for China and Globalisation and an adviser to China's Cabinet, referring to China's history of gifting pandas as a grand gesture.
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"China is trying to showcase to the world its goodwill and friendship by taking a similar approach to its famous 'panda diplomacy'," said Wang Huiyao, president of the Centre for China and Globalisation and an adviser to China's Cabinet, referring to China's history of gifting pandas as a grand gesture.
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The authors say that the president is in it for the grand gesture and the cruel optics, like the swift proclamation of his first travel ban, which caused acute suffering but was hacked together so hastily and shoddily that it got tied up in the courts for more than a year.
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But as it moves toward a decision on how best to address its own contribution to that legacy as well as its moral obligation to the descendants, it should think in terms of a grand gesture — certainly a permanent memorial and a recruitment and scholarship system that would encourage descendants to attend the university.
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But after years of effort to build unity among the players, the South Korean team is frustrated at suddenly being made a pawn in a geopolitical drama: In a grand gesture of sports diplomacy, the North and South Korean governments agreed last week to field a joint women's ice hockey team at the Winter Games.
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In fact, it was a moment so out of place on the series that I was certain there would be some kind of twist, a grand gesture a la Jason Mesnick in which Peter would leap onstage during the live show and demand that Rachel throw Bryan's pear-shaped diamond (NEVER PEAR) at Chris Harrison's face, in favor of his French-cut pavé.
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The moment when Lloyd Dobler held the boombox above his head as a grand gesture to his girlfriend in Say Anything, when John Bender walks off the football field and first bumps victoriously in The Breakfast Club, the closing scene of Dirty Dancing, all of them were re-imagined and shared with strangers in my small corner of the internet.
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Lady Bird's fraught relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalfe) is given the weight of a love interest in any other film, as is her truly moving friendship with Julie (Beanie Feldstein), whom she makes the classic rom-com grand gesture for when she shows up at her house on prom night after a big blowout fight, ready to be her date.
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To deal with today's challenges, though, Europe's leaders will have to acknowledge the twin plagues of overreach and complacency that brought them to this dangerous point: overreach in going for the grand gesture — a currency union, ambitious expansion to include former Eastern Bloc countries, open borders and global markets; complacency about the consequences — neither within each nation nor at the European Union level.
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In a grand gesture, Wood launched a new blockchain in about 15 minutes from a brand new Mac laptop, from which he dramatically tore off the shrink wrap, in order to demonstrate how little time and set-up it would take, and how few tools would be needed to pull off what might previously have taken days or even longer, depending on the complexity of the project.
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While President Obama opted for an empty chair as a grand gesture at this State of the Union address, Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) decided to fill a bunch of chairs with the endearing forms of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
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Where other decorators might rely on whimsy or grand gesture (a statement pendant light, say, or a lacquered wall in a bold color) as a signature style, Studio Peregalli's aesthetic is born from deep knowledge of places, buildings and the objects placed within them: They obsessively study the region and its local structures before beginning a project; every decorative detail down to the knobs and handles is based on a historical document.
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It is time for the grand gesture: Presidential withdrawal from 2020, matched by the Democrats' withdrawal of their relentless prosecutorial mindset — or, if you will, withdrawal from the poisonous fruit of an ill-considered independent counsel inquiry that, if not for the wisdom of special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerSchiff: Trump acquittal in Senate trial would not signal a 'failure' Jeffries blasts Trump for attack on Thunberg at impeachment hearing Live coverage: House Judiciary to vote on impeachment after surprise delay MORE, would have permanently distorted the rule of law and rendered it impossible for any president to do the people's business.
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