Sentences with phrase «many symbolic messages»

«When reading John, always be careful to look behind the story for a symbolic message,» I had said time and again.

But the Bible's being open has also a symbolic message to the preacher.

But by taking money out of for - profit prisons, the State is sending a strong, symbolic message.

In small groups you learn to guide others in their dream interpretations by asking questions, offering tools and helping each person unlock the symbolic messages to attain insights they can apply in their lives.

• A tutorial on figurative language and how different descriptive techniques can bring settings alive for readers while conveying a symbolic message or deeper meaning

If anyone states they are lower than that, you have your symbolic message that it is time to move on.

The group - value model proposes that fair procedures matter because they communicate two symbolic messages about group membership: (1) whether individuals are respected members of a group and (2) whether they should feel pride in the group as a whole.

First, four classes of behaviors appear universally to convey the symbolic message that «my parent...» (or other attachment figure) ``... loves me» (or does not love me — i.e., rejects me).

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Seldom are Internet error messages so symbolic.

A CEPA would deliver economic benefits and would have symbolic appeal, and send a message to Canadian business that India is a market worth taking seriously.

G to T What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth.

fred «What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth»

We are looking for the symbolic meanings and the underlying myths that are far more important than the surface story line, message, or «content».

The shaking off of the dust is a symbolic gesture indicating a rejection of those who reject the message.

Thus their communication code, full of references to food, the farm, the rural landscape, human anatomy, death, the physical world, and the supernatural, contains messages and is indicative of a system of symbolic expression that validates and identifies these southern Black rural (peasant) migrants apart from a wider society» (Community in a Black Pentecostal Church, 175).

The tradition of just war analysis guards against the troubling idea of killing to send a message or for any other symbolic purpose.

The prophetic message, whether by word or vision or symbolic action, is of violence and destruction, doom, and Jerusalem's sure end.

Symbolic violence carries the same message.

Greg Barker, who has personally supported Meat Free Monday since the start of the year said: «Giving up meat one day a week is more than just a symbolic act and, if enough of us do it, will send a very powerful and loud message to world leaders.

... It co-opts and restructures what Babcock has called «symbolic inversion,» where the gradual psychological opening to new messages characteristic of the liminal or transitional period of ritual is intensified by metaphorically turning elements of the normal belief system upside - down or inside - out.

This beautiful glass paint ornament uses the symbolic pink ribbons and a message of strength to hopefully encourage whoever receives this handmade Christmas ornament to fight on.

This symbolic action carried with it a serious message: that the banking system needed to pay attention to the wisdom contained within these books if it was once again to serve the common good.

At the same time, his no - third - term revelation complicates the message: it hints at a symbolic retreat from the world of Westminster politics, off to his gleaming kitchen in the Oxfordshire countryside.

It plays a vital role in our local tourism economy and investing in the new gateways at both its ends is symbolic, sending a strong message that the state stands ready to continue to promote tourism in our area and further strengthen our region.

And while Hannah's traumas are authentically dramatized, she's forced to endure so many indignities that, in total, she occasionally comes across as a symbolic vessel for an important message, rather than a flesh - and - blood human being.

The drama starts when Konstantin puts on a heavily symbolic play with Nina to impress his mother, only for her and the rest of the audience to laugh off his self - serious message about the universe, or something.

Whether or not you catch every reference or understand every choice in the video, however, it has a greater symbolic meaning than even the messages it's packed into that short running time: black artists are gaining - creating for themselves - increasing freedom to explore and articulate controversial (read: threatening to white America) themes in their work.

The artist usually relied on symbolic imagery to get the message across to the viewers, utilizing this type of communicating through carefully established motifs much rather than standard representation.

In her use of figures derived from the grammar of ornament, Wright explores their latent symbolic content and mines the subliminal messages that they contain.

He believed that art could convey profound messages without using the complicated visual games of Cubism or the dense symbolic language of Freudian psychoanalysis.»

The underlying socio / political messages of seven contemporary artists in this show are visually communicated with strong concepts, and power, while presented in a poetic, symbolic and mythological way.

With autobiographical references, the artist's body of work to date has been developed into a vocabulary of forms and objects that convey certain messages in an almost symbolic way.

With recurring messages placed in different symbolic images, Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu predicts the end of materialism in her exhibition at the recently opened...

With recurring messages placed in different symbolic images, Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu predicts the end of materialism in her exhibition at the recently opened Venice Biennale Arte 2015.

From Sydney to San Francisco, Rome to NYC and even Casey Station down in Antarctica, folks around the globe stood together for one hour in a symbolic act to spread the message that they care about climate change, and that something must be done to stop it.

It can send a powerful message, if town after town, city after city, around the world issues a ban on new fossil fuel projects — even if largely symbolic.

«It was a symbolic gesture — they were sending the message that climate change was just not a priority area for them,» said Qamar - uz - Zaman Chaudhry, advisor to the United Nations Development Programme in Pakistan and author of the country's climate change policy.

The opinion discusses whether the display of the license plate constitutes «symbolic speech» that qualifies for First Amendment protection, and whether it conveys a «particularized message.»

For example, in a survey of parents who are targets of alienation, Baker and Darnell4 found that targeted parents reported that alienators interfered with parenting time (e.g., scheduled appointments or frequently called during the other parent's parenting time), interfered with contact with the children (e.g., intercepted phone messages or email), interfered with symbolic contact like gift giving (e.g., threw away gifts or sent them back), did not inform them about important information (e.g., school activities, doctor appointments), threatened to take children away from the them, and formed unhealthy alliances with the children such as having had their children spy and report back information to the alienating parent, or sending cell phones with children to call the alienating parent from the target parent's home.

Their quiet message is meaningful and even symbolic, reminding us it is time to settle in and provide a warm and safe place to nurture our families.