Sentences with phrase «by symbolic»

Government discourse surrounding introduction of the recent refugee reforms was accompanied by symbolic attacks on the legitimacy of asylum seekers including accusations of refugee fraud.

Graham's late paintings are characterized by the crossed eyes and flat presentation of the figures and by symbolic surface embellishments drawn from astrology, alchemy, and the occult.

Hovering Journey was a one - person exhibition by symbolic painter and Fordham University artist - in - residence, Vivienne Thaul Wechter.

The artist has always been fascinated by the symbolic and metaphoric aspect of water and it's ability to take on any form and color, to change it's state from liquid to solid, and yet remain water.

Though informed by a symbolic pictorial allusion to the mythological and the surreal, the painting's forms appear governed by earthly forces of suspension, and motion.

In Day Paintings, inspired by the symbolic landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, Martin presents a study of light as it changes throughout the day.

Detailed Description: Cheryl Goldsleger is intrigued by the symbolic use of mazes and labyrinths, enigmatic structures with architectural roots.

Cheryl Goldsleger is intrigued by the symbolic use of mazes and labyrinths, enigmatic structures with architectural roots.

Other artists more glancingly reference the magazines, inspired by their symbolic value as iconic publications with an institutional history.

At the Royal College, I was taken with the notion of Lacan that the real is not a given, but something held in tension by the symbolic and the imaginary.

In Barrada's work, politics is inseparable from an attention to form, as in several works where written language is replaced by a symbolic logic.

No longer entirely solitary, the figures in Schomaker's newer works are often accompanied by a symbolic animal — a fox, for instance.

Worlds spin out of control, intruded by symbolic spilled purses, toxic clouds

As an artist, he did large oil paintings of men's heads surrounded by symbolic dramatic landscapes, and smaller paintings of birds and flowers.

To enhance its identity, the vehicle is also characterized by symbolic references and various motifs associated with the number 86 and Toyota heritage: [5][32]

It is far too easy to be bought off by symbolic and partial progress.

Blair's presentation was based on «Newness», created by symbolic acts in his early days, notably the abandonment of Clause IV, which had little meaning for the public except for the impression of modernity.

Ironically these are precisely the unintended outcomes, nonetheless created by the symbolic politics now dominating the Cessation Clause negotiations.

[21] After baptism they would rise from «the tomb»,» [having] submerged yourselvesthree times in the water and emerged: by this symbolic action you were secretly re-enacting the burial of Christ three days in the tomb.»

The increased awareness and control made possible by symbolic thought enriches human experience to such an extent that it can be said to represent a difference not merely in degree, but rather in kind, from the experience of other animals (BSI 212 - 13).

Would such preaching actually encourage pro-choice or would it short circuit the choice process in an adolescent who is unduly pressured by the symbolic action of the pulpit's assurance?

In that revolutionary address he unified geometry and physics into a single set of axioms by symbolic logic.2 While the memoir does not comment theologically, it does propose a theory of intersection points, or interpoints, which in its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to space.

Whitehead argues that in fact there is such a common ground, that the two pure modes are related by symbolic reference.»

His pontificate is marked by symbolic gestures and simple words that compel the attention and respect of the world.

I am struck by the symbolic power of the book in his hands» it is red and flimsy and flops weakly in his grasp.

Was it Jesus» intention to establish a new rite to be observed by his followers, or was he, like the Old Testament prophets, trying to say by symbolic acts what he had been telling the disciples and they had been unable to comprehend?

Luke, in his second volume (the Acts of the Apostles) has marked the close of the series by a symbolic scene in which, after «forty days» (a conventional number), Christ finally vanished from human view: «a cloud removed him from their sight.»

Gregory thought that this was an exemplary statement of the way to protest the abuse of coercive authority — not by overt, destructive, risk - laden rebellion, but by a symbolic demonstrative act revealing the vulnerable moral credibility of abused power.

Not exact matches

Although the move itself is minimal, with the Fed saying in a statement that it would lift its benchmark rate by a quarter of a percent, to between 0.25 percent and 0.5 percent, it has a huge symbolic value.

Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

According to a former cabinet minister who spoke on condition of anonymity, the ministers acted as a symbolic «rubber stamp» — the cabinet has no actual approval power — and accepted the plans presented to them by the military.

The Mueller legislation approved by the Senate panel may be largely symbolic, since Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he won't bring it up for a full Senate vote.

As noted previously, much of the value of having a large charging infrastructure is symbolic - it serves to assuage the customer's fear as opposed to being the dominant means by which they charge their vehicle.

By entrusting China's supreme governance to only one man, the CCP is ensuring its survival beyond its very symbolic 100th anniversary in 2021, already mentioned on this blog

This past January, for the first time in its history, Germany faced a symbolic milestone by covering around 100 % of electricity use with renewable energy, and for 2017 it produced with renewable sources 36.1 % of total power consumption.

Chinese stocks were little moved by their addition to MSCI Inc.'s benchmark indexes, as investors weighed the symbolic importance of inclusion against the limited impact on short - term inflows.

But by nabbing a major global airline, this became a symbolic boot into email's future prospects — the bigger the company, the more the customers, and the faster a «new way of working» becomes the norm.

The explosion was reportedly triggered by the Hasidic Jews placing cell phones in the fire as a symbolic rejection of the secular world.

Unilateral symbolic action by the Federal government has not affected change in China in the past, and a similar course action by the government of Ontario is likely to produce a similar disappointing result.

That bill (HB 157), a largely symbolic resolution, is sponsored by Spano, who chairs the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee, the first committee assigned to hear the assault weapons ban.

The venerable oil and gas giant lost its AAA rating from Standard and Poor in April 2016, which thought a symbolic loss (it shared the rating with Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson) indicated the damage wrought by years of low prices and some pretty terrible luck, notably Tillerson's lost $ 500 billion deal in Russia as the result of Western sanctions.

And then Christians celebrate this by «eating his body» and «drinking his blood» as symbolic cannibalism

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.

Hajj is very busy event where about 3 million people in remembrance of prophet Ibrahim (a.k.a. Abraham) and his wife as ordered by God running between 2 mountains, sacrificing animals on 10th day, stoning symbolic satan who tried to deceive Ibrahim.

Symbolic of this new era is Christ the Savior Cathedral, razed by Stalin in 1931 and reconstructed in the 1990s at the initiative of President Boris Yeltsin and the mayor of Moscow on its original site on the banks of the Moscow River, close to the Kremlin.

«By celebrating his own penetration, the male offers himself as both an actual and a symbolic sacrifice and places his social identity at risk.»

And also, if the OT prophets were so good, how is it that such a commonplace prophecy, like Jesus's entry to Jerusalem on donkey takes prophetic priority over such major events as the Last Supper or the Foot Washing scene, an event that at least one commentary listed as one of the most important symbolic gestures ever made by Jesus.

We do not know anything about the days of Noah other than remnants of a symbolic picture language that brought the story forward and was recorded by Moses in about 1,400 BC.

When I hear people disparaging symbolic undergarments, I realize that they would do the same to Jewish and Catholic ceremonial garb, as well as the outwardly dramatic group reactions displayed by Evangelicals including, speaking in tongues and the accepting of Jesus in their lives.