Sentences with phrase «potent symbol»

That is why the word «black» is still the most potent symbol of evil.

We are the most potent symbols of crime, welfare dependency, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and bad government.

This week's events involve a company that's a particularly potent symbol of the ongoing boom.

When future historians look back on 2017, they will see several potent symbols of the new world order hiding in plain sight.

There may be no more potent symbol of our propensity to manipulate nature than a dam — and perhaps no greater testament to changing attitudes than in knocking them down.

«Civil Rights Marchers» (1988) and «Once Something Has Lived It Can Never Really Die» (1996) span the artist's brief but explosive career and complement the High's existing holdings of Lockett's cut - metal drawings and deer paintings, work in which animals become potent symbols for the vulnerability of African - American men in the post — Civil Rights era South.

Like many potent symbols in the work, it represents the will to survive amid the dehumanizing effects of war.

Nevelson's assemblages contain deeply personal references to her own life, while drawing on collective experience as expressed through potent symbols derived from sacred and profane sources.

Featuring potent symbols like the egg, the eve and the cross throughout his work, Scharf's work combines visual transcendence and beauty through careful paint handling, rich color and heady symbolic language.

In this resonant and highly charged work, the artist juxtaposes her light - hearted nostalgia for the games of her youth, one of the dominant themes of her paintings, with potent symbols of contemporary geopolitics (images of President Obama, the hand of Fatima, mosques, talismans to ward off the curse of the Evil Eye).

By wearing masks in some works, and drawing while performing on stage in others, she disrupts the conventions of theatrical storytelling to emphasize potent symbols and critical self - awareness.

Forests are potent symbols in folklore, fairytale and myth, places of enchantment and magic as well as of danger and mystery.

Although the demise of polygamy and the political kingdom removed two of the most potent symbols of division between the RLDS group and the Utah Mormons, no ecclesiastical rapprochement has occurred.

Polyethylene is one of the most widely used materials in the world, and the discarded plastic bag has become one of the most potent symbols of human impact on the environment.

Their close friendship and partnering in philanthropy made them a potent symbol of the philanthropic side of wealth.

In The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia, Girolamo Imbruglia shows how the reducciones became a potent symbol in European debates about the ideal state, particularly in eighteenth - century France.

But the slurry wall more resembles a gigantic objet trouvé than a potent symbol of resilient democracy.

The same somber icons of St. Michael and Our Lady that sustained Russian believers through the winter of Stalinism and its aftermath also provide the anti-Semites of Pamyat with their most potent symbols.

In other words, the word «resurrection» is a potent symbol for Niebuhr, but the word points to nothing more than the human desire to believe in the meaningfulness of life.

Turning one thing into another is a potent symbol of our own inner transformation — turning led into gold, water into wine.

The Confederate battle flag, a potent symbol of racism since the mid-twentieth century, had hardly been used at all for such purposes before World War II, when the Klan started using it.

«In Paul's day, same - sex relations were a potent symbol of sexual excess,» writes Matthew, and so «they offered an effective illustration of Paul's argument: We lose control when we are left to our own devices.»

Both Rabti, and the flag he walked beside — with all three Libyan colors: red, black and green — were potent symbols.

I liked to think before I had kids that my diaper bag would always be a potent symbol that though I had children, I remained stylish and put together.

Ultimately then, like many have concluded with this year's anniversary, the significance of Magna Carta for those in the movement lay in what it stood for as a potent symbol of the long struggle for the rights and freedoms of the British people.

As such, Magna Carta should be seen as a potent symbol of the long struggle for the rights and freedoms of the British people.

If the ICC can bring the six to justice it will serve as a potent symbol that political leaders are not above the law.

The sale — the UK's second - biggest share placing ever — is a milestone in Lloyds» recovery... It is also a potent symbol of the UK's return to health after a catastrophic failure in financial markets brought the banking industry to the brink of collapse in October 2008» — Financial Times

Tank Man's image not only came to define the Tiananmen massacre — soon it was adorning t - shirts and posters across the world, a potent symbol of defiance in the face of repression.

One is the potent symbol of what it means for America to elect a black man.

Today, the mesmerizing flowers have become a potent symbol for a challenge facing Brazilian anthropologists: How can their knowledge of the lives of traditional people — including the migrant flower collectors — be used to help preserve the natural resources these people depend upon?

Since it was discovered in 1985, the Antarctic ozone hole has been a potent symbol of humankind's ability to cause unintended environmental harm.

The fact we are running out of something so seemingly limitless as sand is a potent symbol of humanity's destructiveness.

These boots are one of the most potent symbols of Biba fashion.

Nonetheless the casual denim jacket remains a potent symbol of seventies action hero.

From behind the mask's blue eyes comes the menacing purr of Michael Fassbender, yet this is the project that should have been called «Shame»: co-writers Jon Ronson («The Men Who Stare at Goats») and Peter Straughan («Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») turn the frontman's prop into a potent symbol of artistic freedom and painful social dysfunction alike.

mute custodial worker goes to town on herself in the bath each night, her water - shriveled finger a potent symbol of squandered erotic potential.

Hawkins» mute custodial worker goes to town on herself in the bath each night, her water - shriveled finger a potent symbol of squandered erotic potential.

At the same time, the drum is a potent symbol of the vibrancy and resilience of African culture in America.

It doesn't seem to be a potent symbol like grammar school education because it requires a whole network of small, slow unglamorous policy changes.

And grammar schools have become for some a potent symbol of social mobility and meritocracy.

On Day 7, we visit the Kremlin, a potent symbol of two mighty Imperial cultures.

House became a potent symbol of the erosion of London communities when it was razed a mere 11 weeks after its completion.

The exhibition will feature recent work by contemporary artists who use the moving image as a versatile tool for both documenting and questioning reality, including Zineb Sedira's fourteen screen installation Floating Coffins 2009 and Steve McQueen's Static 2009, which probes ideas of freedom and migration through the potent symbol of the Statue of Liberty.

This self - conscious act of appropriation exposes the manner in which a potent symbol can become unmoored from what it originally signified — in the case of the cowboy, unbound freedom — by continually being recycled by the advertising industry to sell cheap products.

Irizar wasn't performing the art - world equivalent of a parlor trick — rather, by unfurling the gold hat, once a potent symbol of democratic values in Latin America that has increasingly been forgotten, she was restaging an otherwise intangible development.

Although the first Fountain was either lost or broken, it became a potent symbol through reproduction for artists in the 1960s, challenging the values of uniqueness and authenticity in art.