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Discover LudwigThe phrase "thinking hands" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe hands that are engaged in a thoughtful or creative process, often in the context of making or crafting. Example: "As she sculpted the clay, her thinking hands transformed the raw material into a beautiful work of art."
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Our first-year tutor, when we all met at architecture school over a decade ago, used to tell us to use "thinking hands" whenever we were stuck for inspiration.
Anyone studying psychology will be all too aware that the repetitive and mostly inaccurate replies you get can be enough to cause a psychotic breakdown themselves!... "So what am I thinking?" Hands down the most frequent response you get when people find out what you study – somehow studying psychology means you must also be telepathic.
So we began clicking and snapping, to see where our thinking hands would take us, as the mood shifted from carefree play to competitive panic, with the thought that someone else might take all the corner pieces you needed before you'd completed your Mayan ziggurat of doom.
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At the grandest end of the scale is a soaring, six-metre-high model of the Winged Figure commissioned for the exterior of John Lewis in Oxford Street; at the most intimate, a cast of Hepworth's left hand, which she called "my thinking hand, my listening hand, that transmits thoughts through the fingers into the stone".
You are just going to get beat up, and chewed up, and spit out.' You know, I'm thinking, 'and?' You know, like you guys haven't tried to do that every day since that night in '08, when I was on stage nominated for VP, and I got to say, 'yeah, I'll go, send me, you betcha.
"I'm just thinking hands-feet, hands-feet, hands-feet," he said.
The degradation of thinking worked hand in hand with the systematic destruction of populations.
She had actually begun thinking about hands and memory in 1988 while she was a research associate at the National Gallery of Art.
30 In relation to creative research methods, this is done through "thinking with hands to understand and unlock new perspectives".
"There's not a lot of thinking in handing an instrument to a robot -- that job doesn't have to be done by a person".
The government is thinking of handing two benefits, covering housing and council tax, to local councils to administer, with an annually declining cash budget from the centre, to force local staff to bear down on fraud.
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