Sentences with phrase «centuries as a symbol»

Christians have used the cross for centuries as the symbol of their religion.

The exhibition examines how pearls have been employed over centuries as a symbol of status and wealth, how tastes vary in different cultures, and the changing designs of jewellery with pearls.

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There has been a presentation in which a biblical symbol has been pushed to the exclusion of the rest, so that the resultant picture is not adequate to the richness of the biblical witness as it has been developed and modified through centuries of Jewish history.

Over the centuries Christians have seized on the cross as their central symbol, not by accident but because Christian insight has understood that it is in the one who loved us and gave himself for us that the truth about God and humankind is spoken; and that this loving and giving were consummated on Calvary.

Up to this point we have considered a number of the organizing symbols and mythic elements of American national consciousness as it developed in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

The Cross became popular as a Christian symbol in the Fifth Century A.D..

No serious participant in the ecumenical movement can mistake the judging and purging power of agape as it moves within the centuries - old forms and symbols which have guided Christian devotion and have become infused with the very human loves of the familiar and the satisfying.22

Thus, if we use the now standard symbol of «J,» «E,» and «P» to designate the three most conspicuous narrative strands inter-woven in Exodus (as well as in Genesis and Numbers), we will think of «J» as the recording of early traditions which remained current and fluid down to the tenth century B.C., when the J - work was done by a single man (in this respect probably unique among the three primary sources).

You note that according to the archaeological record, the cross didn't appear as a Christian symbol until the fifth century.

To suggest a comparison with the work of the psychologist, when a European dreams of leaves of maize, the important fact is not that maize was imported into Europe only after the sixteenth century and thus became a part of the history of Europe, but that as an oneiric symbol, the maize is only one of innumerable varieties of the green leaf.

But editors were not sure what to do when the term «black» became, as a Century editorial phrased it at the time, «the «in» word among many Negroes, a symbol of their new deepening negritude» (October 25, 1967).

Ancient civilizations and symbols, such as the pyramids, have survived for centuries in this country.

OSV Collectors» Forum speakers will include Colleen Callahan, Independent Historian: Put the Manly Breeches On: Boys» Clothing as Symbols of Manhood in the 19th Century; Laura E. Johnson, PhD., Associate Curator at Historic New England: From Stays to Skeleton Suits: Dressing Children in Early America; Chris Bates, Old Sturbridge Village Costume Coordinator: Making A Portrait Come Alive: Creating Reproduction Clothing at Old Sturbridge Village, presented with Rebecca Beall, Old Sturbridge Village Collections Manager, and Jean Contino, Old Sturbridge Village Coordinator of Households and Women's Crafts.

The British socialist and labour movements of the late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century chose to view Magna Carta as an important symbol to invoke in their own struggles against the current system and its abuses.

A task force created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property — described by the mayor as «symbols of hate» — has recommended only one statue be moved: a monument to J. Marion Sims, a 19th century doctor who developed advances in gynecological surgery by conducting operations on black slave women.

For a century and a half, the 150 - million - year - old feathered creature called Archaeopteryx has reigned as the earliest known bird and as a symbol of the link between ancient dinosaurs and living fowl.

In just a century since they first appeared, the textured wool sweaters of the Aran Islands have become «as tenacious an international symbol of Ireland as the harp and shamrock,» writes fashion

Worn for centuries, the signet ring has been a symbol of power and influence, usually with a family crest or initials on it that could be pressed into wax to used as a seal.

Billy the Kid is invoked not only as Peckinpah saw him, a symbol of 19th - century Romantic ideas of rebellion, on the run from the inevitable encroachment of 20th - century capitalist forces, but also in terms of the back - to - the - land hippie nostalgia that arose when more radical political hopes were crushed at the end of the Sixties.

Actress Audrey Tautou and designer Gabrielle «Coco» Chanel are both international symbols of modern French femininity — Chanel as the trend - setting couturier who liberated 20th century women with the simplicity and ease of her clothing, and Tautou as the single most recognizable French actress in the world, thanks to her captivating performances in films like 2001's Oscar - nominated Amelie and a little 2006 thriller called «The Da Vinci Code.

Here in the 21st century, the passport has evolved to not only act as the key to get through (airport) gates, but it has become a symbol of our ability to travel freely throughout much of the modern world.

Dogs have been depicted in art for centuries; their loyalty, strength, work ethic and love endless fodder for artists to use as both subject and symbol.

Ornamental dogs had been used as status symbols the world over for centuries.

As a symbol of Nessebar, the wooden Windmill is thought to be from the 17th to the 19th century and is located on a promenade with wonderful sea views.

Here in the 21st century, the passport has evolved to not only act as the key to get through (airport) gates, but it has become a symbol of our ability to travel freely throughout much of the modern world.

Symbols adorn the graves, such as the lion etched on the tomb of Judah Loew Ben Bezalel, the chief rabbi of Prague in the 16th century.

This traditional symbol for a printer's shop indicates where eccentric writer and publisher Thomas Gent had premises in the eighteenth century, referring to young boys who worked fetching tape for the printer, known colloquially in Gent's time as «printer's devils».

Highly sought - after during the 18th and 19th centuries, these prints endure as symbols of English culture.

One is a work clearly made from the backs of bras, here used as graphic geometric patterns, another symbol of femininity used by Bourgeois, who amongst all 20th century artists was a pioneer who made materials such as textiles appropriate to be used in fine art.

Few historians would disagree that Gothic in the 18th century (as in the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries) could carry political or religious implications, not least as a symbol of the frequently contested identity of the constitution and of the Church.

The green helmet in Helmet I (1970) functions both as a metonymy for Germany's cruel 20th - century history, and a symbol of all conflicts, softened, almost pacified, by the dark swathe of forest green.

In several paintings women are featured in elaborate tignons, an 18th century headdress imposed by law for women of color in New Orleans and a tradition that although imposed as a form of oppression became, through elaborate patterning and design, a symbol of power and beauty.

The movement coalesced during the second half of the nineteenth century as writers in France and Belgium sought a new form of art — one that referenced the visible world as symbols that correlate to ideas and states of mind.

The 12th century Otranto Cathedral floor mosaic is unique in that it depicts more than Biblical references, incorporating signs of the zodiac, as well as symbols from Greek, Scandinavian, and even pre-Islamic mythologies.

Understand the Weapon... appears as an epitaph to the ultimate symbol of 20th Century scientific and secular might.

Vessels — a.k.a. the cup, bowl, or teapot — have been traditionally used for centuries as a soothing symbol of comfort, friendship and well being.

Its role is not so much to divide as it is to serve as a status symbol, reminiscent of country estates reduced to 18th century London squares.

The work is a visual reinterpretation of Bruno Taut's Monument des Neuen Gesetzes (1919), as well as the Hindenburg airship, the symbol of modernity in the early 20th century.

As a highly globalized region that has been consistently shaped by multiple paths of migration since European colonization in the 15th century and the transatlantic slave trade, the Caribbean is often portrayed as the ultimate symbol of «modernity» and globalizatioAs a highly globalized region that has been consistently shaped by multiple paths of migration since European colonization in the 15th century and the transatlantic slave trade, the Caribbean is often portrayed as the ultimate symbol of «modernity» and globalizatioas the ultimate symbol of «modernity» and globalization.

Her work references the 19th - century tradition of hairwork, in which family members and artisans would fashion the hair of the deceased into intricate jewelry and other objects as symbols of death and rebirth.

The Cuban flag was adopted in 1902, more than a half century before Fidel Castro's revolution and has been used as a symbol of nationalism by both the Cuban government and anti-Castro exiles.

Founded over a century ago, in 1888, Lalique has endured as the ultimate symbol of French luxury.

This classic mid century lounge chair was first introduced in 1956 and has become widely recognised as a symbol of luxury and exclusivity.

Spanish monks first discovered passiflora in Mexico in the early 17th century and sent back drawings of the plants to Europe, where, in Rome, Giacomo Bosio, a monastic scholar, saw them as symbols of Christ's passion.