Sentences with phrase «on symbolic value»

The architecture takes on a symbolic value thanks to the writing, and it is the signs that create the field of correspondences... In Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi / Brown / Izenour proclaimed the sign as being the organizing element of movements in space, and they succeeded in demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise direction.

This lesson explores the different features of a Christian funeral and asks students to reflect on the symbolic value of these features.

Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

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Not only does this have practical value at a time when family members may not have the time or energy to fix meals but it also has a profound symbolic meaning on the level of feeding and nurturing.

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.

I focused on their ritual and symbolic enactments of their own value system as a template for the values with which they will approach space travel and space commerce in the 21st century, and have published that research in Late Editions VIII, Para-Sites, edited by George Marcus (2000).

In contrast, the upper echelons» diet was mainly focused on species that had great symbolic value for Maya, such as the powerful jaguars and crocodiles that roamed the Central American jungles.

He wrote, «As in the medical profession, the main value of such an oath might be symbolic, but I believe it would also stimulate young scientists to reflect on the wider consequences of their intended field of work.

Indiana's action on the Common Core will garner attention for its symbolic value, but it remains to be seen whether there will be any substantial...

Indiana's action on the Common Core will garner attention for its symbolic value, but it remains to be seen whether there will be any substantial differences between the upcoming Indiana standards and the Common Core standards.

Represents natural numbers in different ways or associates a number with a set of objects or drawings: emphasis on place value in non-apparent, non-accessible groupings, using materials for which groupings are symbolic (e.g. abacus, money)

The In situ props, which all share the symbolic value of both escape and uprising, interact with wanderers on various levels: may these be physical, visual, narrative or emotional.

Constructing work from materials such as lottery tickets, trophies, travel posters, romance novels, art fair booths, and art shipping crates, Ghost of a Dream transforms these items, supposedly drained of their use - value, into sculpture, video, and two - dimensional meditations on material and symbolic value.

He created figurative paintings that drew on a vast iconographic repertoire, often inspired by everyday life, and abstract works with a powerful symbolic value, sometimes created by chance through reactions between paint and other products.

Responding to the exhibition space, the work focuses on the Fondazione's symbolic value as an abandoned industrial building converted into a cultural venue.

Cai's gunpowder piece Eagle Landing on the Pine Branch (2007) is, according to China Daily, especially significant: «the motifs of eagle and pine trees were chosen for their symbolic value in both China and the United States, representing the friendship and cooperation between the two countries.»

Says an angered Kapoor, who planned on preserving the graffiti for symbolic value, «It is as if a woman is raped and blamed for her own rape.»

More importantly, the CPP is of immense symbolic value on the international stage, as the tangible expression of Obama's promises at the Paris climate talks.

«Their [climate scientists] actions may have limited discernible influence in terms of «bending the curve» on emissions, but their efforts to «walk the talk» have tremendous symbolic value,» Max Boykoff said.

Recent terrorist and / or militant incidents have focused on universities and schools, assumed, by some, to be a desirable target for extremists because of their symbolic value.

In short, a sentence with a denunciatory element represents a symbolic, collective statement that the offender's conduct should be punished for encroaching on our society's basic code of values as enshrined within our substantive criminal law.»

Frequently the conflict is not about the topic they are discussing; rather, the real problem is some underlying or symbolic meaning which may be tied to a dream or fantasy or need, something that they feel they simply can not compromise on without invalidating their dreams or value.