Sentence examples for acts of close from inspiring English sources

They are also (and this dense economy of function is a part of Cusk's skill) the chief means by which we come to know the narrator herself, whose acts of close attention to each story and its teller cumulatively suggest the "outline" (as the book's title has it) of her own story, and supply almost all we get by way of information about her own circumstances.

The effect was to force the viewer to inspect, one item at a time and at the intimate range usually reserved for acts of close-up reading, the enormous yield of Brainard's imagination.

Luigi Ghirri and Joel-Peter Witkin are his photographic influences, he says: "It's all about the act of close looking and the construction of a tableau.

But last week, Israel's parliament went through the last formal act of closing that historical political divide.

A crowd of untended roses lay bruised and blue in the dusk, alongside daylilies caught in the act of closing for the night.

"We have a mayor who treats the act of closing a school as the accomplishment," said Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate and, as one of five Democratic mayoral hopefuls, a supporter of a moratorium on closings.

So galleries including Gagosian, David Zwirner, Pace and Andrea Rosen all reported making several sales, and major collectors like Steven A. Cohen, Peter Brant, and David Tieger wandered around the fair, often being stalked by journalists hoping to catch them in the act of closing a deal.

The executive branch "came into the crisis with the president having only emergency authority limited to the act of closing financial markets or declaring a bank holiday, actions in a crisis which are largely panic-increasing, not panic-containing," Mr. Geithner told Mr. Thomas.

Since the bag is fitted with straps, a flap and a lock and key in addition to gold-plated toggles, the act of closing it requires the kind of time that few women who can afford the bag seem to have.

The act of closing the advert can be the very click that initiates a download.

For example, if someone asks "Could you close the door?" the hearer does not usually answer "Yes", instead they perform the non-linguistic act of closing the door.