Sentences with phrase «own symbolic power»

«Anne Frank has great symbolic power, and this has led to a multitude of manifestations, such as the naming of streets, schools and parks, but also Halloween costumes and expressions of antisemitism in the world of football.

What they have constructed, these past thirty years, is not a globalised economy, but the world archipelago of capitalist islands - large or small - where they have concentrated world scientific and technological capacity (more than 92 % of world R&D expenditure, more than 90 % of patents and of the installed computer capacity...), financial power, symbolic power and media power of the present time.

I am struck by the symbolic power of the book in his hands» it is red and flimsy and flops weakly in his grasp.

Silveira analyzes Pentecostalism's intense dynamism, its contradictions, its multiple manifestations, its capacity to respond to the psychological and social needs of individuals, and its symbolic power enriched by expressions of popular religiosity.

By reserving the act of sexual union solely for procreation, intercourse gains extraordinary symbolic power.

Nevertheless, Mr. Bottum is right about the symbolic power of sacrifice, whether human or animal, to sustain a culture.

Light, space, color, form — the tools of all artists, in his hands become informed with symbolic power.

When the mysteries of the faith are summarized or given a facile explanation, they lose their symbolic power.

In the second part, «The Logic of Religious Violence,» Juergensmeyer depicts religious violence as a kind of theater that expresses its deadly symbolic power on a cosmic stage.

CH: Our symbolic power — that's it.

The key to our human superiority is, scientists agree, in our symbolic power, as shown in all human languages.

The other point to be clear about is that sacraments are not merely arbitrary rites agreed upon by social convention, but possessing no inherent symbolic power.

Moreover, new power structures and established institutions invariably come to replace the old ones, and any initial glow of inchoate democracy can easily be undermined by the rising centers of symbolic power.

A god, in the sense I am using the word, is the name of a great narrative, one that has sufficient credibility, complexity, and symbolic power so that it is possible to organize one's life around it.

Did they understand that the symbolic power of their prohibition of prayer would continually overshadow other issues?

Its need for sacraments of promise explains the symbolic power of the land of Israel or the city of Jerusalem as an emblem of hope.

England faced Germany on May 15th, 1938 amidst a growing tension between the two nations, like Mussolini, Hitler's Nazi re3gime understood the symbolic power of sport and the game against Engald provided an ideal arena for their propaganda machine.

«The fact that people continue to talk about potential ways the ISS might be put under pressure or taken hostage is a sign of the symbolic power that the station has.»

Silver was the starting point and cornerstone of the project because it possessed a unique combination of protective benefits as well as beauty and symbolic power.

Symbolic power symbols and furniture arrangement can make all the difference in your career.

His mid-film encounter with a deranged dinosaur who's collecting a retinue of totemized sidekicks (birds and small mammals) he's assigned symbolic power speaks to the film's general conversation around myth as a means to contain chaos.

This animated powerpoint showcases five examples of the symbolic power of light in literature.

Code switching and symbolic power in a second grade two - way classroom: A teacher's motivation system gone awry.

Luc Tuymans has an eye for images that are charged with symbolic power.

Bartlett uses the symbolic power we associate with the sea, its sublimity, as a foundation on which to develop a series of paintings which reference Read More»

Phillips also collected American and Eastern European works with expressive color and symbolic power.

This exhibition is the first to examine the striking visual similarities between these artists» works evolving from a shared interest in the expressive and symbolic power of form in space.

The developing story of the national reassessment of disgraceful Confederate monuments has productively unearthed, for the general public, the symbolic power of art and its propagandistic role in perpetuating systems of power and control.

A network of images and objects fuse, seemingly random, but embody their own symbolic power, order, and universal significance.

As a simple machine, a stick can transform energy, increasing tangible force as with a baseball bat, or symbolic power as with the baton, wand, or sceptre.

Emphasizing that violence is everywhere, the show focused on how people behave under the influence of shocking images and, using the concept of «symbolic power,» points out how violence is manipulated by authorities.

SCAD presents «Imprint: Past as Prologue,» an exhibition by Masud Olufani (M.F.A., sculpture, 2013) that explores history, memory, community and the symbolic power of objects.

These aspects of her work arguably have no symbolic power at all.

His works deal with existential themes and then shift to more political and social aspects, through a complex visual language of strong symbolic power.

His enigmatic works defy easy categorization and have influenced generations of younger artists through his ability to show us the symbolic power of ordinary things.

Women are no longer subjected to political violence but represented as the country's decision makers — revolutionary leaders and holy saints — all in control of their own symbolic power.

This is important: Narrowing the Climate Field: The Symbolic Power of Authors in the IPCC's Assessment of Mitigation

Though the functionality of the two networks is at the moment exactly the same, the symbolic power of a ledger that hasn't been modified proved enough for one developer to take lead on keeping the chain alive.

Yet, the symbolic power of the flag - raising surely helped inspire both the troops and those on the home front in the fight against fascism and oppression.

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According to a former cabinet minister who spoke on condition of anonymity, the ministers acted as a symbolic «rubber stamp» — the cabinet has no actual approval power — and accepted the plans presented to them by the military.

Bezos» rise carries important symbolic weight — signaling Amazon's unbridled power and value, presenting a new face of outsized wealth to the world and heralding a new kind of billionaire who is skeptical of philanthropy and has massive reach in culture, technology and media.

This past January, for the first time in its history, Germany faced a symbolic milestone by covering around 100 % of electricity use with renewable energy, and for 2017 it produced with renewable sources 36.1 % of total power consumption.

The change is more than a feature upgrade: It is a symbolic gesture, making it easier to communicate, power users love it.

Nevertheless, by virtue of our collective human powers — our capacity for complex symbolic thinking, the sophistication of our tools, our ability to steward nature, and our demonstrated interest in telling both nature's story and our own — human beings also transcend nature.

Probably because of the abuses associated with this scheme, a notion developed in the Aranyaka period which explained that the cosmic power might also be known through symbolic meditation upon sacrificial procedure (1:1.35).

In his final two sentences, however, he recognizes the contemporary urgency that is intrinsic to his argument: «The hope of solidarity itself, and the recognition of its attendant burdens, still weighs upon us today It has remained a fragile aspiration, as much in need of condensation into symbolic forms of requisite density and imaginative power as it ever was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of the Common Era.»

Gregory thought that this was an exemplary statement of the way to protest the abuse of coercive authority — not by overt, destructive, risk - laden rebellion, but by a symbolic demonstrative act revealing the vulnerable moral credibility of abused power.

Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power in the midst of a most ordinary human activity.

But the greatest irony is that the symbolic richness and power — the religious meaning — of creation are largely lost in the cloud of geological and paleontological dust stirred up in the confusion.

It's a grand symbolic gesture, inspiring, but there's no power in it.