Sentences with phrase «dramatic symbol of the power»

Later, thanks to the One Per Cent for Development Fund (underwritten and run by employees of the United Nations), we were able to put up a building and later equip it with solar panels so the library can be open at night, a dramatic symbol of the power of reading.

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Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92 f.)