Sentences with phrase «as powerful symbols»

The result is auratic works that act as powerful symbols of absence, failed aspirations and loneliness.

Public sculpture, as a powerful symbol of the established regime, was caught up in the midst of this process.

It serves as a building block of life in the tiniest particles of our universe, and many cultures have been using it as a powerful symbol for thousands of years.

Not exact matches

No, the things the young Robert Lowell needed most as a poet were a coherent system of thought, a rich set of symbols, and a powerful collection of truths with which to begin his work.

The cross is a powerful symbol of love, deep commitment and courage, and as such, should be part of the memorial.

In his powerful book The Non-Violent Cross James Douglass makes a great deal of the resurrection, but for him the resurrection is only a symbol of oppressed people's awakening to the power of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).

The missionaries» preaching concentrated on several aspects; access to the powerful Book (The Bible), Christianity as a way to Heaven, the love of God, the need to give up the worship of Satan, the need to remove all symbols of «devil - worship,» etc..

The problem that Mr. Bottum correctly identifies is that those such as Chomsky who do not believe in nonmaterial beings literally can not make sense of the kinds of things done by those who still speak and act in powerful mythic symbols.

Symbols are only as powerful as the people believing in them and the people fighting them.

I would go even further, as I'm sure Pike and Stringfellow would 50 years later, that even these terms, including God, Jesus, and the implied Spirit, are powerful symbols that must be continually re-examined and re-articulated for the sake of the contemporary mind.

has continued to be central for me and because the crucified Christ remains a powerful symbol f transforming grace, I persist in thinking of myself as Christian — however liberal and humanistic.

Some symbols are very powerful, such as the American flag, the Canadian Maple Leaf, a red cross.

Since seriously meant paradox defines good poetry, it is no accident that «the babe turns out to be, as a matter of fact, perhaps the most powerful symbol in the tragedy» (WWU 37).

For those of you who are confused why the symbol of a cross can be so powerful to some people (powerful as in a negative connotation), think of it this way: wouldn't you be offended and wouldn't you want to shield your children from a place with swastika banners hanging all over the place?

«It's one of the most respected and recognized symbols in the green marketplace and a powerful way to set Organic Baby Gift Boutique apart as a leader in the organic baby market.»

As culture secretary James Purnell said: «The union flag is a powerful symbol of both our heritage and modern, diverse Britain.

It was a powerful symbol of divine authority, and each pharaoh wore one on his brow as an amulet.

«So in a sense his conviction in the existence of mapinguari has as much to do with seeking a powerful symbol for the need to conserve the Amazon as it does with his conviction that this animal really exists.

Instead of being a symbol for the black experience, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) gets to do something just as powerful: be his own person.

Since prehistoric times, birds have inspired art and mythology, and our interest in birds is reflected in some of our most powerful symbols, such as the peace dove.

Textiles in Bali, though, not only serve as protection against the cold and sun but are also powerful symbols indicating the status and well being of the wearer.

As the symbol of speed and flashy, this type of weapon appear in almost every games require badassery In MHW, beside the normal attack (which already quick and powerful) By hitting R2 you activate the «Demon Mode» where the attack speed is greatly enhanced and the move set is changed drastically, allow you to move like lighting while deliver flurry of slashes to the monster.

Painter Deborah Brown's latest work both embraces and critiques the concept of the Chimera as she reimagines narratives taken from mythology, religion, and literature by placing a powerful female figure at the center of these stories in which women are typically symbols of moral virtue or seductive evil, often held hostage by male desire to possess.

Students decode and discuss these powerful symbols as they appear in art, including paintings and ritual objects.

Automatic writing was an important vehicle for action painters Franz Kline (in his black and white paintings), Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Cy Twombly, who used gesture, surface, and line to create calligraphic, linear symbols and skeins that resemble language, and resonate as powerful manifestations from the collective unconscious.

Inspired by the international migration crisis and tense sociopolitical battles surrounding the issue in the United States and worldwide, the artist has conceived of this ambitious, multi-site project as a way of transforming the metal wire security fence into a powerful artistic symbol.

He moves toward the hieroglyphic, so - called neo-primitive pictographs, symbols and patterns, usually in black on white, that would become his signature style; this scheme's noticeably male stick figures seem at once powerful and hapless, as if they caused the chaos that swirls around them.

Her multi-layered use of powerful Anishnaabe origin figures that double as symbols of power in Western governments, invites different interpretations.

I think he was seen as a symbol of protection by the powerful.

Chicago, too, insists that her vaginal imagery be read not literally, but metaphorically, as an active and powerful symbol of female identity.

The artist's installation, first shown as part of the 52nd Venice Biennale, and originally conceived as a protest against the senseless atrocities of the Iraq war, has since become a powerful symbol denouncing any armed conflict.

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Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).

Whether they are seen as a hedge against future energy costs; an investment in a new energy paradigm which Apple may become a major player in; or simply a powerful symbol of corporate responsibility which serves to build brand loyalty and win favorable press coverage, Apple's sustainability commitments can not be compared in an apples - to - apples (sorry!)