Sentences with phrase «of symbolic actions»

I get kind of tired of symbolic actions, but what the heck.

Cf. Turner's introduction to Edward R. Spence, ed., Forms of Symbolic Action (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1970).

The head of Symbolic Action, a media investment firm, and prominent collector of contemporary art is seated in the offices of L.A.'s Hammer Museum in Westwood, where he is on the board of overseers.

Sputnik: We give our data away with everything we do (driving licenses, card payments, loyalty cards), will deleting Facebook increase our data privacy, or is it more of symbolic action?

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Fourth, he has to decide a few symbolic things he's going to do that people will buzz about that will set the tone for where McDonald's is going... Fifth, whatever the speed of action and decision - making at McDonald's, take it up five volts.

S&P's action, largely symbolic, coincided with the latest round of selling pressure, but it did not cause it.

Unilateral symbolic action by the Federal government has not affected change in China in the past, and a similar course action by the government of Ontario is likely to produce a similar disappointing result.

But the actions — though highly symbolic — had been widely expected for Trump who accused China of «raping» the U.S. economy during the presidential campaign and threatened to label the country a «currency manipulator.»

But neither the action itself nor its symbolic interpretation produces the effect it claims - that of benefiting life - making the ritual a violation of the deep convention protecting human life.

Jesus was able to «grasp the logos of reality as such and to re-present it through symbolic speech and action,» and this in a normative fashion.

Mulligan, in this symbolic action, expresses Joyce's critique of Christianity: a combination of sadism, the razor, and narcissism, the mirror... Continue Reading»

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

Man is uniquely the creature of meaning, and thus is «able to grasp the logos of reality as such and to represent it through symbolic speech and action.

For weeks a sizable procession marched to the music of drums, bells and cymbals as similar symbolic actions spread rapidly throughout the region.

Moreover, for the ministers of the Reformed churches «preaching» was a symbolic word; it meant not only public discourse but every action through which the gospel was brought home and men were moved to repent before God and to trust in him.

Persons whose symbolic universes emphasized the role of supernatural forces tended not to believe that society could be reformed through human action and refrained from experimenting personally with alternative lifestyles.

These sometimes strange and always dramatic actions of the prophets charged with dire symbolic meaning are never merely symbols.

The long day of teaching, culminating in the impressive symbolic action, may have been something like a last appeal to the Galileans to understand and embrace his true purpose.

Jesus» actions, then, are symbolic of adoption; abandoned children are to be brought into the church and raised by Christian parents, not in order to exploit their labor potential but because the biblical God is one with a special concern for the poor, the homeless, the weak and the abandoned.

This Roman custom of raising the newborn infant probably underlies Jesus» symbolic action in our Gospel text for today.

It has become the singular achievement of this ideology to detach society's self - understanding from the frame of reference of relational, reciprocal, communicative interaction, with all of its symbolic reinforcements, and to replace it with a scientific, objectivist model which aspires to the self - reification of men under categories of manipulative rational action and adaptive behavior.

Greater Love Has No Man The washing of the disciples» feet, then, is closely associated in meaning with Jesus» symbolic action with the bread and the wine in the synoptic accounts of the last supper.

These symbolic rituals could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

These are a few examples of symbolic rituals that could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

A typical Jewish Passover meal involves lots of food and wine, with numerous symbolic items and actions during the meal.

Rather than being a «cleansing,» Jesus» action was a symbolic demonstration of the temple's imminent destruction in preparation for the arrival of the eschatological one.

It includes both the community's cultic or ritual life (repetitive, symbolic actions expressive of the community's sacred story) and its people's daily work (vocation or «profession») in the world.

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines metaphor as «a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable... a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.»

After all, he seems not to come from a people that treats the writings of the prophet Hosea with due reverence, but he nonetheless has chosen this moment to perform a symbolic version of the actions of God toward Israel as depicted in the sixth chapter.

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Functioning on the basis of the principle that «the how of our present experience must conform to the what of the past in us» (S 58), symbolic reference operates in the intersection of the two modes of perception, an intersection at which «a pair of such percepts must have elements of structure in common, whereby they are marked out for the action of symbolic reference» (S 49).

Would such preaching actually encourage pro-choice or would it short circuit the choice process in an adolescent who is unduly pressured by the symbolic action of the pulpit's assurance?

Like Peter Berger, whom he quotes, Habermas perceives a requirement for some form of symbolic universe — a sheltering canopy — to integrate the various systems of action in which an individual engages.

Within such a paradigm we would begin to analyse an issue such as media and violence in terms of its effects first on the broader symbolic environment that is needed for constructive social life, rather than just on isolated and selected individual actions.

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

[21] After baptism they would rise from «the tomb»,» [having] submerged yourselvesthree times in the water and emerged: by this symbolic action you were secretly re-enacting the burial of Christ three days in the tomb.»

Such commitment in any but the simplest, thoroughly ascribed society must be to a «generalized symbolic medium,» not to specific norms.16 Given the integrative potential of such a generalized symbolic medium — of action to action, policy to policy, person to person — the question can be raised whether in a single society more than one such medium can exist.

With their use of symbols and symbolic actions, the liturgical element of all ceremonies reveals the intimate association between religion and public oath - taking.

It was a symbolic action which expressed both the interior feelings of the one offering and God's response to the prayer.

But Morton Grove Park District Commissioner Dan Ashta's symbolic actions have spurred an ideological tug of war with a local veterans group, which recently halted cash donations to the Park District until its entire board stands for the pledge at park board meetings.

Other examples of symbolic thinking skills in action would be seeing your toddler hold up a stuffed dog and saying ruff ruff, or babble into a toy phone.

The statement explained that the action carried a symbolic import that necessitated their public expression of gratitude to the president.

With this in hand, we can then ask which better explains the observable pattern of internal deliberations, official discourse, symbolic gestures, and even the nature and timing of substantive foreign policy actions in the case in question.

Meeting organizers offered a menu of actions to battle harassment, from symbolic to concrete.

If the symbolic heart is the seat of love, our actions are more likely to «come from our heart» and we're more likely to «follow the heart.»

The centerpiece of Renoir's intricate structure, the pivot on which the action turns, the symbolic core of his critique of French society, is the hunt, the scene that most clearly reveals the volcano that seethes beneath the dancers.

In the first of two White House - centric action flicks this year, Fuqua strikes hard and fast to bring down the President of the United States and the symbolic building of his power.

An indictment of tribalist maxims, a simple and heartfelt portrayal of how we cling to the things that we love most in the dark even after they've long gone, a warning about how the absence of those things can metastasize into hostility at what (or whom) we assume is responsible for their loss - even by association, and of course a thrilling sci - fi blockbuster with kick - ass action scenes enriched by thematic and symbolic meaning.

The action sequences are well - staged and some of the more dramatic and symbolic moments feature characters surrounded by bright and beautiful visuals.

It is a symbolic passing of the torch from one generation to the next, As Schwarzenegger gets older, his role as action hero seems increasingly preposterous.