This is apparent
in the mysterious symbols which are strewn across the canvas — arithmetic notations, suggestions of floating eyes, and so forth — and by the grotesque, nightmarish heads of the figures: the woman looks like a frightening cat, and the man, with gaping mouth, resembles a devouring demon.
Not exact matches
Niebuhr (
in a rather inexact way) wanted the concept of the devil to act as a
symbol of the
mysterious offer presented to man to take the alternative to God's established order of human existence.
Symbols can be realistic, that is, revelatory of the
mysterious dimension of reality, even while they are, psychologically speaking, partially rooted
in our desires.
The «
symbol» Jesus Christ takes on flesh and blood, which only twice
in the libretto is conceptualized: Mary Magdelene and Judas alone realize «He's a man, he's just a man,» though there is something about him, some hidden and
mysterious (parabolic?)
Other children, who hadn't seen apples being divided different ways (or hadn't discussed them with their parents) struggled enormously with what seemed to them a new torture consisting of numbers and
symbols to be manipulated
in increasingly
mysterious ways.
In the opening moments of writer / director Trey Edward Shults»
mysterious horror / thriller, we are presented with such a
symbol, a warning sign right from the off that this one is going to take us down some dark, ominous alleys, figuratively, before our time with it is up.
If a
mysterious indicator warning is illuminated on your dash, simply find the
symbol in the box below then click on it.
If you found yourself standing
in front of a
mysterious coffin with strange
symbols on the front, would you decide to walk into it?
A
mysterious symbol in the «Destiny 2» DLC «Warmind» sparked a real - world treasure hunt.
Flowers are a beautiful and powerful
symbol of life across the ages, and when the petals fall off the rose, or the lilies decay, they also have come to represent peace
in the afterlife — every civilization & culture
in human history has derived different meanings from different flowers, according to their
mysterious rhythms.
In Northern Europe the
mysterious Druids, the priests of the ancient Celts, also decorated their temples with evergreen boughs as a
symbol of everlasting life.