Sentences with phrase «more symbolic level»

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».

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.

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The thing is, marijuana remains prohibited at a federal level, so the laws were more a symbolic gesture than actual legislation.

In 2015, carbon dioxide levels passed the symbolic threshold of 400 parts per million, which is more than 40 percent above pre-industrial levels.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

But Garrone and a bevy screenwriters (including Saviano himself) more than met the challenge by filleting a selection of narratives both personal and symbolic in scope, interweaving them with thrilling nous and dexterity, and finally, handling the potentially unwieldy juggernaut with a level of patience and compassion that recalled Roberto Rossellini's studies of post-WWII Italy.

Recently, however, there has been a change in this formalist orientation, and instead of shapes, colors and composition, artists and critics have begun to concern themselves more consciously with the personal and symbolic levels of works of art.

On a more abstruse level, the process of entering the mine and re-emerging became, for Lanyon, a symbolic rebirth and a metaphor for his own identification with west Cornwall.

A win by the plaintiffs, says the Globe, «would dismantle a federal statute that affects more than 1,000 marriage - related benefits, and it would be a huge victory on symbolic and practical levels for supporters of same - sex marriage.»

The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) Synchrony during early mother - child interactions has neurophysiological correlates [85] as evidenced though the study of vagal tone [78], cortisol levels [80], and skin conductance [79]; (2) Synchrony impacts infant's cognitive processing [64], school adjustment [86], learning of word - object relations [87], naming of object wholes more than object parts [88]; and IQ [67], [89]; (3) Synchrony is correlated with and / or predicts better adaptation overall (e.g., the capacity for empathy in adolescence [89]; symbolic play and internal state speech [77]; the relation between mind - related comments and attachment security [90], [91]; and mutual initiation and mutual compliance [74], [92]-RRB-; (3) Lack of synchrony is related to at risk individuals and / or temperamental difficulties such as home observation in identifying problem dyads [93], as well as mother - reported internalizing behaviors [94]; (4) Synchrony has been observable within several behavioral or sensorial modalities: smile strength and eye constriction [52]; tonal and temporal analysis of vocal interactions [95](although, the association between vocal interactions and synchrony differs between immigrant (lower synchrony) and non-immigrant groups [84]-RRB-; mutual gaze [96]; and coordinated movements [37]; (5) Each partner (including the infant) appears to play a role in restoring synchrony during interactions: children have coping behaviors for repairing interactive mismatches [97]; and infants are able to communicate intent and to respond to the intent expressed by the mother at the age of 2 months [98].