Sentences with phrase «more symbolic»

Nothing is more symbolic of together - time than the dining table, so a table and chair set is an important item to focus on for new homeowners.

So whether we find ourselves in the actual city streets of a concrete jungle or in the more symbolic kind, it is likely true for all of us that subtle forces cause us to normalize stress.

Engage in much more symbolic or pretend play where a toy or a child can represent many things.

Also appreciated were Canada's commitment of new climate - related funding and (although more symbolic) its leadership on the 1.5 ˚C stretch - goal and on keeping Indigenous and Human Rights in the agreement.

However, for those who are looking for a more symbolic reasons, consider this sculpture of our national emblem.

Which is really more symbolic than anything — Oregonians already gets the vast majority of their electricity from hydropower.

Wyoming has struck back, although sometimes its target seems more symbolic than substantive.

After a meaningless moratorium that was more symbolic than anything else, our government decided to speed up the offshore oil drilling permitting process.

Andy's piece is a bit on the Believer side of Judith's, but would agree that Trump's move is more symbolic than having any real practical effect.

The black and white sock takes on a more symbolic meaning of polarization, but also stands for creating a dialogue about our collective future and the one of our planet.

Highlights of the exhibition also include major works, such as Racconti di Guascogna (Tales from Gascony) 1951, and Ragazzo col Tacchino (Boy with Turkey) 1955, which show how Afro's more symbolic representation of objects and figures shifted to become a purely expressive and emotional form of abstraction.

Nicomi Nix Turner takes a more symbolic approach and associates animals as beings that should be worshiped or revered.

Another time and another place, the viewer may be drawn to the more symbolic works.

Beerenstilleben 2007 (a still - life), located so characteristically on a windowsill, features the vernacular debris of 21st - century life: plastic food containers alongside a solitary, leftover almond and the more symbolic burned down candle that might have appeared in the Dutch still lifes of the 17th century as a reminder of mortality.

The next few years represent a rather conceptual phase, and probably the least known to the general public: sculptural pieces — the «oggetto - quadri» («object - pictures») as he called them — with minimalist echoes, drawings and objects characterized by more symbolic, essential and silent signs.

Rejecting both naturalism and pure abstraction at the end of the Second World War, Cobra valued unbridled experimentation and creative freedom, manifested in brilliant, colorful paintings of distorted figures that provided a more symbolic and political European counterpoint to the roughly contemporary «action painting» of the Abstract Expressionists in the U.S..

The themes addressed in Soleil Double are not just about the proposed phenomena of two suns in axis around the earth but on a more symbolic level, about the concepts of duplicity and ubiquity, the idea that reality could be something other than what it appears to be at first glance, than what we take for granted as «true» and «right».

Others in the show whose art presents a more symbolic approach include Tazuko Fujii, OI Sawa, Namiyo Kubo & Janet Bohman.

The early works suggest a more symbolic aspect than those presently included on the first and second floors on the walls of Galerie Perrotin and Dominique Lévy.

Over time, Jonas began to introduce more symbolic elements into her work; frequent motifs include dogs, the sun and moon, skulls, landscapes, and hurricanes.

It was in 1939 when Pollock started to turn toward more symbolic and expressionist art.

Up close, however, her paintings are even more symbolic, detailed and hyper - consciously rendered than the screen could convey — and far more critical than I'd expected.

I am thinking the timer is more symbolic for the hunt period.

The book won't be appearing on bookstore shelves, so October 14 is more symbolic than anything else.

Sometimes it will be more symbolic than deadly, like the arrest of decorated Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates because he was thought to be burglarizing his own home.

When it comes to matters of equity and privilege in the public schools, few issues are more symbolic of the challenge than fights over teacher assignments.

In endorsing Hendy - Newbill, Hattie McFrazier and Rachel Johnson, UTLA contributed the maximum, $ 1,100, to each of their campaigns — a gesture more symbolic than significant.

What «Information Age» values tempt us to forget is that all of the information gushing through our electronic networks is abstract; that is, it is all representations, one or more symbolic steps removed from any concrete object or personal experience.

That forces them to think in more symbolic ways when defining a term.

The issues now animating advocates, dreamers, and disrupters on both sides are more symbolic than substantive.

Far from stemming the tide, the recommendations of the national commission were only selectively adopted, leading to reforms more symbolic than substantive, say the 11 members of the Hoover Institution - based Koret group (who also serve as editors and editorial board members of this journal).

They do a great job, of course, but they are more symbolic, archetypes, rather than fleshed out characters.

It was a twofold burn that seemed more symbolic than anything else, rewarding Scott and Plummer for saving this movie from being swept into the Spacey undertow.

No one will accuse 99 Homes of tackling the housing crisis with a subtle hand, as its characters are more symbolic than fully - forged; however, the way it drafts Nash's deal with the devil makes his choices far more understandable.

Amanda Seyfried barely features; her character is more symbolic than a present feature in the film.

But I believe these moments are meant to be more symbolic of the good versus evil struggle for the soul of Gotham city, rather than lapses in judgment from the creative team.

Though I tend to gravitate towards style choices that are more symbolic of that of the late 60s and 70s, there's no denying that the 80s and 90s hold sentimental value to me, as I was born in the 80s and raised in the 90s!

It's more symbolic than anything else.

In addition to being highly visible over long distances by our species, red is also the color of blood, charging it with even more symbolic significance.

The bills ranged from sweeping changes — from measures banning most larger campaign donors from securing state contracts to legislation blocking political consultants from doing double duty as lobbyists — to the more symbolic, such as one that would bring an end to political fundraisers in Albany County during the legislative session.

So far, the Senate and Assembly haven't even been able to agree to pass the same bill that would strip state pensions from New York state workers convicted of crimes related to their public duties, a measure that Horner said would probably be more symbolic than an actual deterrent.

On a more symbolic level, a Murtha loss would raise serious questions about Pelosi's political acumen — questions she had largely put to rest in the runup to the 2006 election.

The governor said his meeting earlier this week with Archbishop Timothy Dolan was «more symbolic» than anything else.

Much like the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital by Trump, it's more symbolic and aimed towards irritating those who don't agree.

But this year, the milestone gift typically should be a bit more symbolic.

Perched on a hill, visible from all directions as you head into Newcastle, towering into the air in the centre of town — St James» Park couldn't really be much more symbolic.

One of the greatest quotes in movie history could not be more symbolic than to describe the current status of my beloved Arsenal.

It's hard to tell which was more symbolic of the Wildcats» disarray: freshman guard Alex Legion's decision (and apparent reconsideration) last week to transfer, or that anemic offensive performance in a 19 - point loss to Eric Gordon — less Indiana last Saturday.

«I don't know if anything is more symbolic than what we've done with Marshawn and him playing the way he's played and him being the guy he is,» Carroll said last week.

Nets Daily has more on a victory that has more symbolic value to Nets fans than most because it makes the unprotected first - round pick Brooklyn is sending to Boston juuuust a bit worse.