Sentences with phrase «often symbolic meaning»

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It is a good rule that in trying to understand the Bible one should not have recourse to a figurative or allegorical explanation of any passage (outside those poetical and prophetical compositions which obviously have a symbolic intention) without first settling conclusions with the straightforward meaning, even if it seems offensive; for the offence may set up that tension in the mind through which we often reach the truth.

These symbolic terms all cohere and relate together, depending upon one another for their full meaning and often being defined in terms of one another.

They often use, sometimes heatedly, phrases and symbols, words like «resurrection» and «life eternal,» but all too often they have changed the meaning so that these symbolic phrases do not stand for life after death.

But the traditions surrounding baby wearing go far beyond just carrying the baby close to a parent or caregiver; often, the actual carrier has a cultural and symbolic meaning.

Men and women would declare hidden, often forbidden feelings by way of a bunch of flowers — the symbolic meaning of the blooms spelling out what couldn't be said out loud.3

She focused on their potential symbolic meanings by creating works that are formally rigorous and imposing in scale and materiality, and her human - scaled works are often handmade; the traces of her processes - welding marks, folds, stains, and scratches - are frequently left visible on the surface.