Sentence examples for gesture of openness from inspiring English sources

What was some kind of private drama has turned, thanks to the transforming powers of the ballet academy, into a public gesture of openness — of being opened out as if from within.

Once kept closed and locked except for Commencement, Reunions, and ceremonial occasions, it was opened permanently as a gesture of openness and community upon the petition of the senior class of 1970.

This gesture of openness, which startled the Catholic world, would prove not to be an isolated event.

Mr. Welch also offered to break out the leasing company's accounting from GE Capital's books as a gesture of openness, the executives said.

Reporters were given a little more leeway than most foreigners to go outside the Koryo Hotel and walk a few blocks, apparently a gesture of openness.

Together with university rectors, high-ranking alumni and several prominent public figures, they aired their grievances in discussions with Government representatives in a remarkable gesture of openness in this polarized nation.

His nation was ever more isolated in Asia at a moment when one of the last defiant regimes, Burma, was making gestures of openness.

Morocco's gestures of openness help remind its citizens, and the world, that the country's Jewish history matters and is worth honoring.

BOSTON, Jan . 4— In a ceremony rich with gestures of openness and symbols of conquering adversity, Deval L. Patrick, the first black governor of Massachusetts, took his oath of office on Thursday.

In a gesture of astonishing openness, Giulio Regeni's grieving friends and relatives handed over their phones and laptops to the Italian police.

Until now, American and European officials have criticized the Syrian government but stopped short of sanctioning Mr. Assad, who is still sometimes viewed as a reformer willing at least to make gestures of political openness only to be stymied by more hard-line elements in Syria's ruling elite.