She just stares wistfully until they notice, then turns away.
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Only Judas turns away as darkness gathers in the room.
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His company, he said, turns away 70 percent of applicants.
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" And then he turns away and he goes, "I like him.
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Sterling turns away from the vehicle and Salamoni draws his pistol.
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Trump casually points him in the right direction and turns away.
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His parable jauntily turns away from the overemphatic legibility of parable.
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If the reader turns away, then that says more about them than
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One is imperious in posture, the other turns away in stubborn resistance.
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The pupil massages his temples as he turns away from the book.
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Then, as soon as he turns away, she shoots him in the head.
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As the camera turns away, more yelling ensues, followed by several loud bangs.
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You try to hold the novel's face, and it turns away once again.
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And then wistfully, finally, he turns away from them, and together, we leave.
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Mayor Markus Dressler reluctantly turns away companies that want to move to Glashütte.
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Primo turns away, trying to show no reaction, but cursing under his breath.
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Modern slavery and human trafficking thrive where big business turns away its gaze.
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Her body faces us, but her head turns away looking into the distance.
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Manson estimates he turns away 99 out of 100 investments that cross his desk.
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The woman turns away but the child watches us, her eye a guarded portal.
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Vinz's response is visceral and stricken: He lowers the gun, turns away, and vomits.
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It's a relief when she eventually turns away, covering her face with her hands.
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Cunanan, at that point 21, tries to kiss Versace, but the designer turns away.
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Attention turns away from events and toward our own ability to react to them.
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What one goes toward is less definitive than that from which one turns away.
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However, Nymeria turns away from Arya and heads back into the woods with her pack.
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He looks at me and turns away, wishing me well without looking into my eyes.
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Will I be the kind of person that turns away and retreats and gets small?
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"Help!" he yells toward the street, turns away and runs back to call the police.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Another blind eye turns away from a horrific atrocity.
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Sue listens, then turns away — not returning the dish — presumably to go home and tell Frank.
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She turns away and puts her arm between them, and the kiss lands on her cheek.
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Ashley: From a business perspective, because like Raya, for example, seemingly turns away a lot of people.
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But instead of a heart-swelling hug, the wolf turns away, leaving Arya out in the cold.
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Hell, sometimes if a camera turns away from the scene, our imagination can fill in the blanks.
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Mr Harris turns away private clients if he thinks their problems cannot be solved in 90 days.
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The company has been so successful that it turns away 90% of companies that apply for accommodation.
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And, to find out how much your school makes off of students it turns away, search here.
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He turns away from obsessively watching home movies of his childhood trauma to explain his deranged plan.
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If the conversation turns away from subsidies in the abstract and instead turns to "picking good" — i.
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And it never, ever turns away from its conviction that teenage girls must be defended to the death.
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Finally, through combo of exaggeration and hopelessness, it turns away those in the middle we need to persuade.
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Another reason, no doubt, is that the United States lets the Cubans in but turns away the others.
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Beijing wants consumption to help drive future economic growth as it turns away from its traditional manufacturing base.
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The crowd groans as the precinct chair turns away someone who came to caucus two minutes late. pic.twitter.
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She turns away and scrubs all of it with a bar of black soap that smells like milk.
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At about 21998,22007 feet, it turns away from Highway 28, and crashes into the side of a hill.
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At about 2,300 feet, it turns away from Highway 101, and crashes into the side of a hill.
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After the crisis passes, attention turns away from the trade that brought the disease to humans, he added.
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At about 763,300 feet, it turns away from Highway 101, and crashes into the side of a hill.
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At about 2000,21 feet, it turns away from Highway 2000, and crashes into the side of a hill.
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In the aftermath of the ban, as America turns away thousands of refugees seeking safety, "Home" feels shockingly relevant.
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Mr Phillips has insisted all along that he never turns away customers based on their sexual or gender identity.
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And although it still turns away some Philippine vessels, it has not built any military installations on Scarborough Shoal.
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The screen turns away from the players and to a full-screen video of the virtual game being played.
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And, before her shame at this transparent falsehood has evaporated, the boy coolly bids her farewell and turns away.
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Francis, visibly upset, slaps twice at the woman's hands to free himself, rebuking her, and then angrily turns away.
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So it is unclear if Austria and Hungary will go along with taking in migrants that Germany turns away.
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The Singles program has been uniquely obsessed with downloading tracks while the rest of the industry turns away from it.
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As the moon turns away from us, we're encouraged to turn inward and reflect on our lives, goals, and relationships.
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If he turns away ... from the population, the population will use any means at their disposal to fight the regime.
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In GLEEM's first story "born again," Femi eventually turns away from the preacher, transporting himself to his own personal heaven.
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In doing so, she also turns away from the specificities of the Bosnian war (though she later returns to them).
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The storm comes or it doesn't, the snake bites or it doesn't, the mama bear charges or she turns away.
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He then steps back and turns away from the camera, hands raised like a champion boxer stepping into the ring.
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Those quick turns away from losing choices played a big role in the Democrats' eventual comeback victories in 1992 and 2008.
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Guy turns away from the stage and takes another sip of his drink, Heineken diluted by a glass full of ice.
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Their deaths are a stern rebuke to the country that failed them and to the world that turns away from them.
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We do our best to nurse her, but she turns away from the filling stews, the thick bread slathered in butter.
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He turns away from his canvas and looks right at us, as if to say: Here are the alternatives; you choose.
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And at the end of "Nyman," the cast turns away, as at the end of "Agon," but they raise fingers skyward.
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As Krasner turns away from the carceral strategies of past administrations, he has focused on making justice swift, rather than severe.
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At night, when one side of Earth turns away from the sun, its buildings, streets and jacket-less people cool off.
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In the accompanying image, Calloway turns away from a computer screen where she has presumably been reading her own takedown piece.
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Trump and Kim Jong Un will finally meet in Singapore; Italy's populist government turns away a boat carrying hundreds of migrants.
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A firefighter turns away from the heat as flames explode through the front windows of a home burning in the Lilac fire.
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They are used to a GOP that turns away from issues of importance in the black community after an election is over.
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Whether Facebook eventually turns away old clients or stops integrating with competing video platforms like Twitch and YouTube remains to be seen.
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Though many of her students are wealthy, others are not, and she never turns away a child who can't afford to pay.
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Then the modern road turns away from the old route, which is traced by a dirt track before disappearing into fields and copses.
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But when she approaches her best friend Omari (Moonlight's Jharrel Jerome), with whom she's been wrestling in private for years, he turns away.
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Asked if Sitrick & Co. ever turns away clients because of what they represent or because they haven't been candid, Sitrick says it has.
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Let's take a look from another angle: Almost immediately after initiating the gaffe, Consigli gives up, turns away and tosses up his hands.
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Our current immigration system turns away deserving applicants while waving in anyone from the EU. A points system would treat all applicants fairly.
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"Piety turns away with horror from so fearful an act of desecration," he writes archly, yet facts are facts and metaphors are metaphors.
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Those protections and the vulnerable communities they serve are now threatened if the Trump administration turns away asylum seekers or incarcerates them indefinitely.
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And To All the Boys also turns away from the blindingly white casts of '90s teen movies to center an Asian American heroine.
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He turns away, as if finally realising that the faceless, flickering icons on his computer screen will not give him what he longs for.
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It paints a troubling, sometimes true-to-life picture of how misinformation spreads, even when the facts exist just a few knob turns away.
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As he finally exits the store and turns away from his friend, his smile fades, and a sense of helplessness washes over his face.
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It's not always the scandal itself that turns away potential employees, said Paul McDonald, senior executive director at Robert Half, a global staffing firm.
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Rather, she calmly confronts her husband's biases, hands him her purse, thanks him, and turns away to do her job, leaving him there to grumble.
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Nine of those have been quality starts for Fister, who is 22-29 with six earned runs allowed in his last four turns away from home.
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The 31-year-old has won five consecutive road decisions and is 6-103 with a 3.12 ERA in 11 turns away from home this season.
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André Prager turns away from me for a moment, rummaging through a pile of stuff on the cart he has pulled into the small conference room.
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In his latest film, "A Young Patriot", Mr Du turns away from migrants, vagabonds and disaster victims to focus instead on a fierce nationalist, Zhao Changtong.
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"The Sweet Hereafter" turns away from the Blossom family drama, which you'd expect to get a lot of, considering Cliff's suicide, to develop other narrative threads.
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Would it surprise anyone if Trump also turns away from Republicans and works with Democrats on a comprehensive immigration deal with amnesty for all undocumented immigrants?
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (slow push in)20th Century Women (creep out)Marnie (turns away)The Passenger (distracted)The Candidate (sudden)
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Leaders from California, New York and other renewable-friendly states in America are trying to help shape global climate talks even as the Trump administration turns away.
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When mass media attention inevitably turns away from Hurricane Matthew, many communities in Florida, South Carolina and Georgia will still be dealing with devastation from the storm.
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In it, Melania Trump can be seen smiling as her husband turns around to talk to her, only to start frowning as soon as he turns away.
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Instead of suspending the question of Vladimir Dragan's identity over the whole book, as plenty of novelists might have done, O'Brien turns away from Dragan to Fidelma.
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LAURA MARLING "Soothing" (More Alarming/Kobalt) Two basses plucking in tandem cradle Laura Marling's resolute voice as she turns away an ex who wants a second chance.
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So once these machines fall and the military turns away, entrepreneurial locals have secretly been transforming their remains into roofs, fences, and other household items for decades.
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The video shows an Emirates airlines flight attendant grabbing a half-drunk glass of champagne and pouring it back into its bottle before the camera quickly turns away.
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Just as we make large gains in the suburbs, the Ohio GOP is doubling down on an extreme and archaic social agenda that turns away those moderate voters.
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In an exhibition titled Yuki James: Portraits at The National Arts Club, the artist turns away from fashion to focus the power of his lens on the individual.
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When the U.S. turns away women and children fleeing violence, it makes us look barbaric and that helps ISIS create a narrative to justify barbaric acts in retaliation.
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At every opportunity it turns away from a deeper engagement in any patient's problems in favor of Dr. Michaels's, which despite Mr. Harris's typically honest investment remain vague.
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Samuel Levi Jones in his exhibition Burning all illusion conveys this realization, makes it visually palpable, but then turns away from the nihilism such a view might suggest.
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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi is visiting China, which is drawing her country closer as much of the rest of the world turns away over the Rohingya crisis.
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Tellingly, instead of touching the iron throne, Daenerys turns away from it last minute to instead follow the sounds of her dragons — which takes her north in the vision.
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Daenerys reaches out to touch the throne anyway, but then hears the cries of her dragons, and turns away from the seat of power to save her children instead.
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We must address that as the welfare state is defunded and dismantled, the state turns away from enacting social provisions and becomes more concerned about security than social responsibility.
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He turns away from himself at the soul level, for a reason (bad breath) that is fine at the social level and irrelevant at the meaning-of-life level.
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Then he turns away, slaps his right hand toward the air in front of him, slides it near his left shoulder and leans forward, hopping into a shoulder bump.
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It's clear J.Lo is overtaken with emotion; she turns away at one point with her hand on her chest and then embraces her daughter at the end of the video.
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Germany's intense immigration debate is an issue for Merkel, who is reaching out to other European leaders to find countries that could potentially take in the migrants Germany turns away.
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Sociologists who study American attitudes towards crime and criminal justice point to an evolving paradigm shift as the public turns away from toughness and toward more compassionate – and effective – strategies.
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The Coast Guard said it turns away hundreds of people each year after they are flagged for not having proper documentation or because of negative information in national security databases.
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She turns away from the world and decides, instead, to live inside her own world, a new language made of erasure, negation; a world marking time; a kingdom of endless silence.
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The moment of romance was short-lived; as the camera turns away from the warmly lit, close-up smooch, it bleeds (literally) into Ellie brutally sinking her knife into a man's neck.
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In an early episode of "One Mississippi," the dark comedy that Tig Notaro co-created with Diablo Cody, Notaro, the show's star, tugs her shirt off and turns away from a mirror.
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The rough road outing was a rare one for the 33 World Series MVP, who still holds a sparkling 23-24 record and 23 ERA in 12 turns away from Rangers Ballpark.
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When Terpsichore placed her finger onto Apollo's at the start of the pas de deux, the emphasis was overdone: What should matter more is the line that follows as she turns away.
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That vision is articulated by the character Chen Yanshi, a respected party elder who turns away exotic gifts that are sent to his home — 35 birds, 43 bouquets and 16 bonsai trees.
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"As the focus becomes more on the upcoming earnings ... the focus turns away from China and oil, it allows investors to redeploy their assets into some equities that look reasonable," Kuby said.
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Once the aircraft is deemed to not be a threat, or in the case of a foreign reconnaissance flight (the Russians conduct flights routinely) when it turns away, the fighters return to base.
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But after the world's two fastest growing oil markets, China and India, indicated they are likely to take radical turns away from gasoline, the IEA says it will need to review its forecasts.
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Rising costs for companies are worrying investors already concerned about a step down in U.S. corporate profit growth next year as Wall Street's focus turns away from 3.73's tax-fueled earnings boost.
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As the United States increasingly confronts China over trade and turns away from decades of championing lower tariffs, Beijing is seen getting a boost from its globe-spanning — and heavily marketed — investment program.
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Because Little Fires Everywhere is that kind of adaptation: At every chance it has, it turns away from its source material's subtlety and nuance in favor of amping the melodrama up to 11.
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Even coal plant owners acknowledge that their days are numbered as the free market turns to cheap natural gas to generate power, and as the world turns away from it for self-preservation.
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As he turns away, a woman in the crowd grabs his right hand with both of her hands and yanks the 83-year-old pope back, causing him to momentarily lose his balance.
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The Supreme Court turns away the vast majority of petitions it receives, with at least four of its nine justices - one seat currently remains vacant - required to agree to hear any particular case.
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However, the trend is clear, planned and proposed coal-fired generation keeps getting cut back as the developed world largely turns away from the fuel, and as top importer China increasingly tightens environmental controls.
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But if the US pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement, for example, and turns away from clean energy development, it's not just their companies that will suffer, it's our economy and the environment.
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The latest triumph on Tuesday ended the 93-year-old Venezuelan's seven-start winless streak on the road and improved him to 2-8 with a 6.00 ERA in 14 turns away from home.
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This second trailer for Netflix's The Crown turns away from the romance and family drama of the first trailer and focuses on the newly crowned queen's political struggles to a far more dramatic effect.
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It's something I ponder, too, when I'm flying at night, and I suddenly see the lights of a town far below, and then watch as the dark earth they're resting on slowly turns away.
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Business Rising costs for companies are worrying investors already concerned about a step down in U.S. corporate profit growth next year as Wall Street's focus turns away from 2018's tax-fueled earnings boost.
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When a private school that miseducates students with scientifically illiterate and historically inaccurate theories claims a public subsidy, or a Medicare-supported retirement home turns away a lesbian couple, that isn't religious liberty, either.
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Then Curry hits a few more, including one of those ridiculous joke-on-the-Gods moves where he loosens a shot and turns away from the basket before the ball falls through the nets.
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After several seconds, the man in the video, who is wearing a load-bearing vest, with a pistol on one leg and extra magazines on the other, turns away from the argument and walks away.
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In the chief justice's hands, the case turns away from the question of whether McDonnell was corrupt (as the opinion puts it, "our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes and ball gowns").
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If the Maldives turns away, it would be the latest setback for China, which is facing opposition for its projects in countries stretching from Malaysia to Nepal, and even from its all-weather ally Pakistan.
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To maintain her governing coalition, Ms. Merkel must persuade them to take in some of the migrants that Germany turns away, as well as sway her own country's Social Democrats to support the border deal.
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Additionally, the government already turns away far more people who are stopped at or near the border — and are not subjected to lengthy court proceedings — than unauthorized immigrants who are caught within the United States.
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The United States turns away more than half of all foreign-born PhDs graduating from U.S. universities in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields — precisely the workforce we need most to compete in today's industries.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rising costs for companies are worrying investors already concerned about a step down in U.S. corporate profit growth next year as Wall Street's focus turns away from 3.73's tax-fueled earnings boost.
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Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge to Connecticut Ban on Semiautomatic Weapons | The justices on Monday refused to hear a Second Amendment challenge to gun-control measures put in place after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
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The Russian Su-225 carries a pair of R-22016 and R-227 AAMs, although the exact type and number of missiles is not clear in the footage (as the aircraft turns away from the camera).
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Thursday's 5-3 opinion turns away an effort to revive the "non-delegation doctrine" of the Constitution -- a legal theory that holds that Congress can't delegate its legislative power to other branches without giving the proper guidance.
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Governments, however, can use data to implement policies that increase effective services and improve outcomes — and create a culture that turns away from damaging and expensive policies toward reforms that can truly transform our criminal justice system.
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CEO Ricardo Sena told Folha de S.Paulo the group is negotiating acquisitions in the U.S. and British construction sectors as it turns away from public works in Brazil that dragged it into the country's biggest-ever graft investigation.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italian luxury group Tod's said on Thursday it was ready to make short-term sacrifices in margins and revenues in pursuit of medium-term growth as it turns away from fashion to focus on higher-end products.
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This month, as it turns away from reporting monthly active users, Twitter reported daily active users for the first time, revealing it has 126 million that are monetizable compared to Snapchat's 186 million while Instagram has over 500 million.
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Too often just when you wish she'd tell us more about him or the faith his work has nurtured in her, she turns away, telling us instead about a book party in Manhattan or midnight philosophizing on Parisian roofs.
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She moves as randomly as possible except that whenever she bumps into a piece of the path she has already followed, she turns away from that piece to avoid crossing her own path or getting stuck in a dead end.
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On its website, the restaurant warns that diners who are likely to be over 15 kg the "average weight" corresponding to their height should not make a booking, because it won't refund entrance fees for diners that it turns away.
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We and the E.U. together have got to think about how to create safe places in Libya and Syria to stem the refugee tide before it breaks the E.U. History will not be kind to Obama if he just turns away.
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Latin American exporters of soybeans could partially satisfy China's demand for the product as Beijing turns away from American farmers, but it's unclear whether there's enough growing capacity in South America to replace the U.S. as a source, according to Duesterberg.
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It is unclear what alternative the president-elect could embrace if the military turns away from the F-235 this late in the jet's development; the government has spent about $215 billion on the project, and 235 planes have been built.
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In a world where Fidelity is offering mutual funds with zero expense ratio and no minimum investment, Fisher Investments turns away potential customers with less than $500,000 to invest, and charges an eye-popping 1.5% on the first $475,000 of that amount.
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She makes stark observations—"Everything you touch turns to gold / Everything I touch turns away," on "Burden Of Proof"—but her writing is more than a third-party examination, it's her way of looking for how she fits into the world she's surveying.
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" He also called on the faithful to "promote a culture of mercy based on the rediscovery of encounter with others, a culture in which no one looks at another with indifference or turns away from the suffering of our brothers and sisters.
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The next day, my friend gave me a Bible, and I read something from the Book of Ezekiel that said if a wicked man turns away from the wickedness, that he's committed and does what is just and right, he can still be saved.
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In an illustration of psoriasis gyrata from Thomas Bateman's 1828 book Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases, a woman turns away to reveal a back filled with tentacle-shaped sores; depicted in a relaxed pose with sheets gathering around her waist, she still resembles an elegant odalisque figure.
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It's told in the second person — "He asks you if you dreamed the way he did and you say no, your eyes avoiding his, and he turns away from you" — a style that, well-executed in Adichie's hands, makes the story feel all the more heart-rending.
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He argued that this year's elections are an existential moment that should — if Democrats do what he's kept telling them to do, without much success — vote — be the start of reasserting an American politics and society that turns away from what's embodied by President Donald Trump.
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Factor in Charlotte's identity as a destination for transplants from across the south and mid-Atlantic, who bring their own allegiances with them, and I'd say Charlotte's only chance to win this bet is a blow-out by the Panthers so large that Denver collectively turns away in disgust.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump welcomed President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan to the White House on Wednesday, calling the visit a "great honor" as he worked to begin what aides described as a new era of partnership with a country that is making its first fitful turns away from authoritarianism.
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To many who look at Carmichael dispassionately, it's hard to fathom how such a remote mine that will produce relatively low value coal can make economic sense in an environment where coal demand is likely to fall in the coming decades as the world turns away from high-emission fossil fuels.
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Then, the client's own Facebook status updates flicker rapidly across the screen until a disruptive glitch takes over and suddenly, in a scene of supposed serenity, an image of the client from the 3D body scan conducted earlier wanders onto the screen, turns away slowly, and hobbles off into the hereafter.
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Much of that growth may come from Chinese efforts to rekindle the economy, as it turns away from efforts to cut debt and begins approving the sort of big-cement, big-iron building and infrastructure programs that fueled so much of its growth after the global financial crisis of 2008.
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It also turns away from its best version of itself: Gone is the elaborate walking sim and survival game that easily occupies 20-30 hours of Death Stranding's over-blown length, and in its place comes at last, the self-indulgence that one expects from a Kojima game but without the audacious, elaborate proceduralism.
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The plainly dressed, androgynous central figure (who is presumably doing the departing) turns away from an approaching horse-drawn carriage bearing a diminutive but fashionable couple; over the figure's shoulder hovers that symbol of romantic fidelity, a swan, while a sailor, apparently on shore leave, goes to great lengths to entice a little yellow chickadee.
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The 29-year-old native of Dallas has worked six frames just once in six starts this season and continues to struggle on the road, losing all three outings while posting an 23 ERA this campaign after going six turns away from home without a victory last year following a triumph at Boston on Aug. 23.
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In an essay about the house three years after building it, she writes: This residence represents an attempt to arrive at a communion between nature and the natural order of things; I look to respect this natural order, with clarity, and never liked the closed house that turns away from the thunderstorm and the rain, fearful of all men.
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It's an unreasonably cumbersome Monster-on-Frankenstein sandwich that immediately alienates and turns away what I can only imagine are the vast majority of Netflix subscribers and their freeloading friends and family members, who use the service to watch movies and TV shows that have mostly already been deemed acceptable and enjoyable by the court of public opinion.
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In the photographs, Mr. Ojo enacts his meta striptease personally: He covers his eyes with his hand; he poses in a wig and in a dress, but turns away from the camera; and finally, in an image called "Silver (Belgium)," he shows his face in an unflatteringly candid selfie being kissed by an older white lover.
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During Democratic presidencies, the division has moved to challenge intentional discrimination by individuals (like a landlord who turns away an African-American couple and then rents to a white one) and has sought to combat policies that disproportionally affect minorities, even if it's not easy to prove they're racially motivated (like a low-income housing program that funnels African-American recipients into mostly minority areas).
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In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
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In the wake of this most recent tragic case, let us hope that the UK government changes its laws to give parents the freedom to care for their disabled children and, most importantly, turns away from a perfectionist conception of "best interests" so hostile to imperfection, disability, and dependence that it mandates the death of those who are not suffering nor imminently dying simply because their lives have been judged by able-bodied strangers to be no longer worth living.
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We're all two handle turns away from a creepy clown popping into our face to tell us our dog died and somebody stole our car while our significant other was cheating with their boss because we're broke and need money for the hospital bills our lousy insurance won't cover after our blood work showed cause for concern, so we lost the house and still can't go to a concert to relieve the stress since it's too dangerous but our city is about to get tag-teamed by a hurricane, tornado and earthquake at the same time anyway, so we should all probably just live out life under the bed.
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Other people's screens are works in progress: they are tense and short texts with no context, typed and retyped, and then, for those underground, sent at the next stop; they are extraordinarily long messages, exchanges of lengths I was not aware were possible on a phone, from which one instantly turns away in shame after spotting the word "divorce;" they are selfies getting touched up, and then discarded; they are seemingly infinite group message chains full of religious affirmations; they are work emails with a lot of talk about clients, and the client, and our client, because the train is a place of work now, just like the office, just like the home.
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