Sentences with phrase «much symbolism»

And much symbolism.

There is so much symbolism and tradition surrounding these ceremonies that I would highly recommend hiring a guide in Varanasi or at least somewhere in India to provide more insight — it was one of the more fascinating experiences of my year.

There were amusing passages, strange passages, too much symbolism (one of our members remarked that Hawthorne would have loved it!)

While I found much symbolism within this scene (which I explain in a forthcoming post), it felt like with all the buildup of the previous majority of the movie, I wanted something maybe just a little more out of this scene.

Genesis has much symbolism and is still being studied today for the patterns that emerge as in the number of specific words that appear a certain number of times and the spacing of the «paragraphs».

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From Trudeau's cabinet selection criteria down to his much - cited selfies, this is an administration with a firm handle on symbolism and gimmicks.

The symbolism on Earth is much more powerful, though, particularly for Musk's personal image.

We all have chosen and in one's choices there lays much caustic symbolisms to conservatively ration.

Many times I think that people who are not very intelligent get bombarded with too much information and can not handle it or do not understand symbolism and metaphor.

Many of these are poetic and in their details must be discounted as mere symbolism; still so much is an irreducible minimum.

Religious people seem to sense that, but spend too much effort tying their minds in an endless loop of symbolism and ritual, and atheists appear to be happy to tie their minds in an endless loop of pseudo-intellectual empirical nonsense.

Some are obviously just me working things out in my mind but others are so filled with symbolism, and meaning in my life — much like a parable — that I know the Lord is showing me something.

These sorts of adjustments to water baptism would make the death, burial, and resurrection symbolism much more clear for the average viewer.

In a more «secular» vein, the prophets use the symbolism of baptism to express not so much the traditional values of ritual purity as the idea of moral purification.

Yet Jefferson's hope for a national turn to Unitarianism as the dominant religion, a turn that would have integrated public theology and the formal civil religion much more intimately than was actually the case, was disappointed and public theology was carried out predominantly in terms of biblical symbolism.

What all these symbolisms suggest is that there is a much more problematic relation between political authority and ultimate meaning than had ever been thought before.

With so many obvious choices, the committee is as much about symbolism as anything else.

Not like today where so much of the politics is just about posturing and symbolism.»

But the Republicans very much want to protect Turner, as much for the symbolism of their power in blue states like New York than anything else.

The context of their discovery suggests that the shrine objects were the paraphernalia employed by the ritual specialists or priests and that their symbolism was meant to evoke much more than just a mother goddess.

Malick, who remains in a league of his own as a filmmaker of pure high art, creative and artistic excellence, epic heights of groundbreaking grandiosity, metaphysical transcendence, spiritual awakening, symbolism, and so much more... Tree of Life represents his highest note in filmmaking achievement.

The much - vaunted color symbolism is so obvious as to be almost charming in its simplicity, and the gothic ambience never really resonates.

I can't go much deeper than that without spoiling anything, but to put it simply, the story is extremely good, and full of interesting symbolism.

Craig Johnson's amusing screenplay is laden down at times by clumsy symbolism, much of it involving goldfish, and the theme of suicide is rather glibly used.

Like with anything that is popular, the movie's plot has led to countless fan theories; ranging from aspects like the story was all in the head of Rod the TSA agent, that Get Out is a sequel to Being John Malkovich, the important symbolism of the deer, the dramatic irony of Chris picking cotton to lead to his escape, and much more.

Lucky has the same affection pouring out of it, which makes it easy to forgive its clumsier attempts at symbolism (there's a much - discussed lost tortoise that serves as a cheerfully obvious metaphor for Lucky's own hard - shelled existence) and its mostly caricatured picture of community.

For much of Colossal's runtime, the symbolism is irresistible: Vigalondo archly deploys a bogus premise to interrogate alcoholism and entitlement, making the monster and robot into stand - ins for the long post-9 / 11 hangover of the American id.

In a clear case of OTT symbolism, moth - shaped images constantly pop - up in stairways, Christmas trees, plug - holes — pretty much everywhere.

He had to watch a few for school, stuff that never really caught his fancy and just didn't connect with him because it was not his style or because the teacher made too much of the symbolism and camera angles and he hated writing the papers, but now he's hearing from his friends that movies are really good.

First off... I love the idea, but ultimately the $ 30 xfer fund to withdraw is a deal breaker for me, I know why you do it, I use scottrade and they make it hard to cash out money too (not that hard), but its not just about the dollars and cents, it is the symbolism and structure, I just cant assume a brokerage firm has my best interest in mind with its highest fee set to move funds out, I would much rather pay a membership or set up fee, at least i get to feel like i get something for that other than access to my own money.

The Silent Hill series usually require a few playthroughs or a thorough rummage around to truly understand each game, they are drenched in symbolism and the stories do not always initially make much sense.

The trailer, which seemed filled with symbolism but not much substance, was definitely one of the most distinct trailers shown.

Much like other indie horror titles, Little Nightmares is about showing rather than telling, and every last metaphor in the narrative can be picked apart if you take the time the analyse its symbolism.

It just comes off as so much annoying undergraduate bull - shitting, like D.B. Weiss in Lucky Wander Boy, trying desperately to pretend that the Atari and arcade games of his youth were anything more than primitive toys, which to me is an insult to the myriad other far more complex games in the intervening decades that actually intentionally wove theme and symbolism into the fabric of their being.

Then there's the heavy symbolism in all her work, plus the weight of all the articles about that symbolism, much of it positioning her as a feminist hero.

In this interview Rauschenberg speaks of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance of that element in his work; the facsimile quality of painting and consequent limitations; the influence of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime» of painting and the problems of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white paintings; and his disapproval of value hierarchy in art.

Considerably larger than a usual ship in a bottle, yet much smaller than the real HMS Victory, in fact a 1:30 scale model, Shonibare's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, was «the first commission on the Fourth Plinth to reflect specifically on the historical symbolism of Trafalgar Square, which commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, and will link directly with Nelson's column.»

Given Johns» antipathy to Expressionism in general (and Abstract Expressionism in particular, which he memorably skewered in such works as «Painting with Two Balls,» 1960), it is hard to imagine him even liking Munch's frequently lurid Symbolism all that much — even if he did borrow the title for a set of three paintings, «Between the Clock and the Bed» (1981 - 83), from Munch's elegiac «Self - Portrait between the Clock and the Bed» (1940 - 43).

I don't think I understood the symbolism as much as Uncle Mike, who was keen to discuss it.

Linked as much by the artists» interests in examining historical figures as by their sensitivity to myth, custom and symbolism, the works in A Tradition I Do Not Mean To Break share a rich filmic aesthetic that variously borders on the gothic, the melancholic and the opulent.

These are two apparently incompatible emotional atmospheres, until we recall that the progressive work of Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903), and much subsequent turn - of - the - century painting, exemplified both decorative art and subjective symbolism.

We visited yesterday a neighbour who paints, a great variety, an architect, but although invited to do so, impossible to get them to discuss anything on the canvasses, so much emotional symbolism was bound up with creation of the objects.

The symbolism can't get much better.

The result was an unfair scapegoating of the hemp plant as the culprit as opposed to the symbolism itself, which, by the way, appears much more commonly on T - shirts and fabrics made from more widely available (and environmentally destructive) cotton.

3) The divestment movement has always been as much about symbolism as it has finances — by tarnishing the image of fossil fuels, we undermine their moral license to operate.

In fact, what is behind so much of the imagery and symbolism that is used by greenwashers?

I believe that symbolism and practicality go hand - in - hand; one allows for constant reminders, memorials and celebrations, another provides the structure and legal processes for much needed change to take place.