Sentences with phrase «by allusion»

A master storyteller, Gander's complex, yet playful, practice is characterized by allusion, where focal points are teasingly hidden and meaning is subtly implied.

Without reverting to representation, the works on display use their palettes to suggest — indirectly, as if by allusion — perspective, distance, even motion.

They mentioned players more often by allusion than by name («that shortstop you got»), and weighed and discarded whole careers in seconds.

Furthermore, a Sumerian text from Nippur from the same early period gives clear evidence of domestication of the camel by then, by its allusions to camel's milk... For the early and middle second millennium BC, only limited use is presupposed by either the biblical or external evidence until the twelfth century BC.

They mark a revival of abstraction tempered by allusions and digital media, the kind that led to at least half a dozen coordinated summer group shows in 2011, although not simply a return to the past.

Not exact matches

Maybe it really was a reference to «chocolatey skin,» the kind of reference that, like many other racial terms or allusions, is probably best left for self - referential use by members of the relevant groups.

Semitic languages are so rich with layers of metaphor and allusion that we can't possibly understand their picture of God by reading the scriptures in English.

Do not be fooled by the bishop's ponderous allusions to John 10 in the phrase «life abundant.»

And Amnesty International, in a report released earlier this year, said «repeated calls by the Supreme Leader and other authorities to combat «false beliefs» - apparently an allusion to evangelical Christianity, Baha'ism and Sufism - appear to have led to an increase in religious persecution.»

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Dementias is seeing things and then ascribing illogical meanings to them either by choice or through chemical imbalances) would make beneficial (helpful) condolences (to assure someone that you care about them when something bad has happened) to illusively (false truth) make connotations (or allusions, a slanting of the bias of language toward) a glint (small reflection of light) of glamor their main pride's orifice (did....

This, of course, is an allusion to something C. S. Lewis wrote about in The Weight of Glory about us being content to make mud pies in the slum because we can not imagine what is meant by a holiday at the sea.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

Instead of the allusion to Daniel, Luke has here (21:20), «But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.»

The allusion to the Messianic banquet introduces a parable reported by Matthew as a part of Jesus» teaching in the temple.

Any allusion to religion does seem to induce severe emotional disorder among those who deem themselves to be the cultural elite (but countenance being termed the cultural elite only by themselves and their friends, never by the likes of Dan Quayle).

But beyond a vague allusion to «getting things right on broader matters of culture,» he offers not a clue about what that something more might be, by what means we might know it, or how it would cure the defects he sees in natural rights reasoning.

This interpretation concludes the episode by seeing allusion to a final retaliation by Canaanites upon Simeon and Levi in the Blessing of Jacob:

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

It may be that kerygmatic allusions to Jesus» humility, meekness, gentleness, love, forgiveness and obedience derive from historical memory of Jesus; but the «historical value» which such material may have is far from its kerygmatic meaning, which is more accurately stated by Bultmann, in language actually intended to state the significance of the pre-existence in the karygma: «That Jesus, the historical person, did this service for us, and that he did it not out of personal sympathy and loveableness, but rather by God acting in him, in that God established his love for us through Jesus dying for us sinners (Rom.

Any other editing or moderation of his words, any picking and choosing of which of his commands and teachings are literal versus allusion, or should versus should not be followed, are simply cherry picking by you, a mere mortal who was born in sin.

The language of these chapters is echoed with remarkable frequency all through the New Testament, either in direct quotation, or by way of allusion.

Pointing the finger was an allusion to what Caryn does by her admission and not dissimilarly her saying to me don't tell women the lamb should lie down with the lion or you will destroy women was unnecessary, could be taken to imply misogyny where none existed and not cool.

[11] In Hebrews, of course, the prayer is an allusion to the Eucharist as the thanksgiving by Christ for the salvation granted him by the resurrection.

The richness of the relationship between the two, speech performance and linguistic code, with all the nuances and allusions which the latter provides, those by the design of the author and those by the creative interaction of the reader, can only be realized by an ironic discernment that is critical of Dasein's projection of its preunderstanding.

Allusion is the calling to mind of something without mentioning it, and its performance presupposes that the reader or hearer will be in possession of — and indeed be possessed by — layers of sedimented knowledge.

In 12: 1 - 13:6 Judah and Jerusalem are vindicated against the nations and made victorious by Yahweh's intervention; the city repents and mourns for someone martyred in a just cause (the historical allusion is unknown); and Yahweh now removes all idolatry and prophecy (degenerate prophecy, prophecy of a mercenary and corrupt form), and effects Jerusalem's spiritual cleansing in a divine fountain.

The persistence of these into Israel's life in Palestine is evidenced by many incidents and allusions of which it suffices to mention the national consequence of Achan's trespass and the execution of his entire family with him (Joshua, chap.

This comes in the next section, where Cyprian, quoting sections of Isaiah 43: 18 - 21, which talks about giving «water to my chosen people,» emphatically states that «you must realise that every time that water is named by itself in the Holy Scriptures, there is a prophetic allusion to baptism.»

This allusion to the past brings me to the bridge from vague affirmation to reverence for a faith which we have built concept by concept over milenia.

That this first step is an error is indicated by Searle himself in his allusion to the bipolar (private and public) character of conscious awareness, which prompts one to ask whether most scientific approaches to the problem of consciousness are vitiated at the outset by a failure to leave open the possibility of an indissociable bipolarity in key ideas (such as public - private, subjective - objective, and body - mind).

One or two students in each of the four nine - week classes chose the course because they wanted to understand the allusions to the Bible made by their parents or other adults they respected.

Many allusions to German culture and history in his work are likely to go unrecognized by the first - time American viewer, especially anyone who has not read some of the growing critical literature on Kiefer or the excellent guide by Mark Rosenthal to the Kiefer exhibition now touring the United States.

The obvious allusion to the act of creating Adam by the breath of God recalls the root meaning of Spirit as breath of life.42 The parallel with Ezekiel's vision of the resuscitation of the dry bones is especially apt (Ezek.

And Sunday school gave us basic training in the value of allusion, at first by showing us how the New Testament refers to the Old, and then by getting us ready to see how the scripture still whispers through most of the literature of the Western world.

A charming panel by the «Master of the Winking Eyes» (Ferrara, c. 1450) shows the mother playing with her child as her veil slips over his head, an allusion to the way in which the flesh Christ took from Mary «veils» the Godhead.

It didn't seem to have occurred to the well - meaning vandals who'd thrown out baby, bath, and bathwater that all ritual is a reaching out to the unknowable and can be accomplished only by the noncognitive: evocation, allusion, metaphor, incantation» the tools of the poet.

If our argument is correct, then the verb opsomai, when it is used in relationship to a reference to Jesus «coming with the clouds», is by no means a general apocalyptic touch, but a specific allusion to an exegetical tradition in which Zech.

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature edited by David Lyle Jeffrey Eerdmans, 960 pages, $ 80 A mammoth new reference work, certain to be a standard and invaluable resource, this «dictionary» contains hundreds of articles on biblical figures, motifs, concepts, quotations, and allusions» both in their scriptural context and as they have been used and understood by English - speaking writers and scholars since the Middle Ages.

Although the epistle is filled with allusions to the Spirit, the writer does not know, or at any rate does not highly esteem, the more ecstatic gifts by which Paul set great store.

This was in distinction to the so - called «witty» preaching which sought to impress the congregation by a display of erudition, making extensive use of classical allusions and delighting in literary flourishes.

In fiery south India, there is another saying, «Heat plus heat equals cool,» an allusion to the gustatory sweating caused by hot chiles.

When even a 3 - 3 draw with a team managed by Brendan Rodgers can come and go without muttered allusions to dark forces operating beyond the realm of the perceptible, you know something weird is happening.

It is important to state that this report did not emanate from the EFCC and the allusion to «an EFCC source» is diversionary and mischievous, a statement by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren disclosed.

But if one were to use a Biblical allusion, the dip would appear not unlike Satan tempting the Christ to show his power, when during the week of temptation, he took Jesus to a great height and taunted him to perform a miracle, since he was the son of God expected by all!

As early as the second month of the Obama presidency, an anti-Obama conservative grassroots movement was established called the Tea Party (firstly an allusion to the Boston Tea Party, which has long been used by anti-tax libertarians and conservatives to celebrate the virtues of non-interference and small government; and secondly an acronym for «Taxed Enough Already» Party).

The title was an allusion to the Yellow Book, produced by the Liberal Party research department in 1928, in which economists such as Walter Layton and J M Keynes set out plans for the state to tackle unemployment.

By the time we'd got to Smith, Thatcher's speech had been swallowed whole: John Smith's most memorable quote: «economic success and social justice are two sides of the same coin» was a scarcely concealed allusion to a line from Thatcher's 1980 speech: «Without a healthy economy, we can not have a healthy society.»

Speaker Sheldon Silver Although he pointedly did not make any comments about running for office as a Democrat, that was implied by the presence of Crowley and his allusions of having worked closely with Democrats, such as Assemblymember Grace Meng (D — Flushing) and City Comptroller John Liu.

By Ian Dunt Follow @IanDunt The opening shot of The Iron Lady shows Margaret Thatcher's hand taking a carton of milk from a fridge, an allusion to her reputation as the prime minister so mean she tried to end free milk for school children.