Sentences with phrase «potent symbol of»

Number of investors flipping homes returns to precrisis levels; big banks get back in the game Dec 28, 2016 By Kirsten Grind and Peter Rudegeair House flipping, a potent symbol of the real - estate market's excess in the run - up to the financial crisis, is once again becoming hot, fueled by a combination of skyrocketing home -LSB-...]

The career of Tracey Emin, one of the best - known contemporary British artists, has become a potent symbol of the relationship between art and celebrity in our time.

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Acting as a pictorial element across the series, the mountain is also a potent symbol of challenge, risk and refuge.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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«God,» in his various aspects, serves as a potent and hallowed symbol for various features of reality.

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.

A hundred years later, as I celebrated Christmas in Manhattan, the tree decked with blue glass baubles and stretching to the ceiling of our little apartment was the only potent religious symbol Christmas afforded.

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?

Will he, in the wider European interest, be prepared to sacrifice some slice of that most potent of all symbols of nationhood — the land itself?

The Sunken Place is so potent as a symbol that it's already become a piece of cultural shorthand (and the centerpiece of a course taught at UCLA on the «Black Horror Aesthetic»).

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.

There are few wheeled status symbols more potent than a British Range Rover, the elite of Land Rover's on / off - road vehicles.

TEHRAN: Amid the post-election turmoil and public protests that have roiled Iran over the last several weeks, one of the most poignant (and potent) symbols for the opposition has been Neda Agha - Soltan, the young woman shot by a government sniper in the midst of the Tehran crowds on June 20.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Glaser, 87, created one of the most potent images of the last century, I ♥ NY, a rallying symbol when the city and state were in crisis in 1977.

Because these tribal patterns and symbols were related with the work of Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, both held at the time in high esteem by their struggling New York colleagues, they carried a potent political and aesthetic message.

While it's a potent symbol and convenient rallying point for campaigners, it's a distraction from core issues and opportunities on energy and largely insignificant if your concern is averting a disruptive buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

So potent was that original Liberty Tree as symbol of independence, it was targeted by the opposition in the opening battles of the Revolutionary War.

This photo of the world's best known and most outspoken climate scientist, James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, handcuffed and hauled off to jail yesterday may not achieve the iconic stature of the Blue Marble photo, but as a symbol of our times, it's pretty potent.

Its declaration of unity before the flag, our nation's most familiar and potent symbol, is an affirmation of our common ideals of liberty and justice for all.