Sentences with phrase «for symbolic significance»

And while the fact that Dublin's «Millennium Spire» won't be up until 2003 may only be a bemusing footnote to future generations, the PR guys really need to come up with a new explanation for its symbolic significance in the here and now.

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Moscow realizes that the gathering of the Council specifically in Istanbul has an important symbolic significance for the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch, since six out of the seven Ecumenical Councils (with the exception of the Council of Ephesus) have taken place in Constantinople or its environs (Chalcedon is presently Kadiköy, a district of Istanbul, and Nicaea, modern Iznik, is within a short ride from the capital).

We learn from a close reading of the text about the formal conditions for aesthetic enjoyment and symbolic significance.

For some, it can be a wonderful ritual, full of symbolic significance.

Few philosophers» lives can boast comic (or, for that matter, tragic) material comparable to Kierkegaard's aborted engagement to Regine Olsen, the bizarrely exaggerated symbolic significance he attached to it, his firm expectation of death before the age of thirty - four on account of some unnamed sin of his father's, his intentional provocation of a feud with the satirical review The Corsair, or his splenetic quarrels with the Danish Lutheran church (and so on).

One must understand the full significance of this presentness if one is to understand the symbolic function and the dependent and mediate reality of the I - It relation (Karl Heim has made Buber's distinction between the presentness of the l - Thou relation and the pastness of I - It the basis for his whole philosophy of dimensions and hence in turn of his theology.

The symbolic significance of John's baptism was plain, the waters of the Jordan had been the gateway to the promised land — both for the people of the Exodus journeys and for those who had returned from the Babylonian Exile.

The possible reasons for his coming at night include: the merit attributed to studying the law at night; the symbolic significance of darkness in this gospel, and the fear of the hostility of some religious leaders toward those who confess faith in Jesus (cf. 12:41; 9:22).

The symbolic significance of the Army's murder of the country's leading academic and religious figures can not be overstated: the deaths signal that, once again, no one is safe from Army and death squad violence... The Bush Administration has taken the position that the Jesuit murders were a dramatic departure from Salvadoran army policy, and represent an opportunity for President Cristiani to demonstrate that the army is not above the law.

The season of new beginnings and new life, its symbolic and sentimental significance is important to consider when it comes to shopping for and welcoming a new baby.

Whilst the significance of getting councillors in the northern city centre councils can be overstated by commentators (when there is a Conservative presence in the surrounding urban areas), this is still very symbolic, and encouraging news for Conservatives in the North West.

A smarter man could unravel the vast network of the sexual symbolic significance of del Toro pining for a sea creature procreating with a human woman but I'm happy to acknowledge del Toro's kinky side and embrace the fact that he's given his fetish cinematic form.

I want to be there for the reopening of the U.S. Embassy, this end - of - history moment, however symbolic its significance.

For Louise Bourgeois, fabric and sewing held great symbolic significance.

De Jong's choice of materials holds symbolic significance, for the insulation itself is a petroleum product.

Take Over makes audible the close relationship of these two political anthems and mines the musical kinship for traces of this changing symbolic significance.