Sentences with phrase «by symbolic characters»

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In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

Some myths contain within themselves the nexus of a concrete historical event experienced by a group or by an individual while many have lost their historical character and contain only the symbolic expression of a universal experience of man.

When aristocracy gives way to some other stable social form, aristocratic manners are replaced by a system of symbolic acts that express the character of the new society.

Process theism need not dissolve these particularities into symbolic manifestations of universal truth, since it can proclaim a God vitally interested in precisely these particularities whose activity is shaped by their peculiar character.

[One could read this story as a symbolic tale of Eden like the early chapters of the Biblical book of Genesis, with its prototypical Adam and Eve characters, the natural bounty of God's generous gifts, the biting of the apple, temptation, sin, and subsequent banishment from «heaven» by the coming of a fiery «hell.»]

The action sequences are well - staged and some of the more dramatic and symbolic moments feature characters surrounded by bright and beautiful visuals.

I find myself serenely untroubled by the Faulkneroid elements in his character — to me they seem grand and symbolic and universal.

I'm influenced by their ability to tell an entire story through signs, patterns, and symbolic characters» — a clear echo of the comic books that once set a remarkably versatile artist on his path.

Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as the use of color, language, and pattern — into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning.

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

Ostensibly, his deceptively simple works (drawings, paintings and animations — reflecting choices of medium, which are solidly within the mainstream tradition of the Japanese graphic story - telling tradition of Manga) is predicated around self - portraits of his alter ego, «Bunny», and his adventures in the contemporary world, surrounded by a host of other reappearing symbolic characters.

Inspired in part by her study of 17th - century Dutch and Flemish painting, Heagle's works take up still life and the genre painting as mutable formats to be invested with symbolic meaning, portraying animals, lava lamps, knights» armor, and characters from television dramas with subtle irony.

Using beautiful custom - made tables crafted by her furniture - designer husband, Martino Gamper, Upritchard creates nostalgia - laden tabletop tableaux that explore asceticism and excess by dwarfing symbolic human characters and archetypes with cast - off detritus from everyday life.