Sentences with phrase «significant as a symbol»

Despite its religious value, I believe it is also culturally significant as a symbol of remembering those who have fallen.

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The association of feasts with significant moments in life finds its ultimate use as an eschatological symbol of celebration and renewal.

For those who are not Christians, could they not view it as a symbol, but not significant to their own beliefs.

Yet even among teens with what they considered to be a significant affiliation with a religious organization, there was a sense in which teens see themselves as the ultimate authority over which religious symbols are or can be made meaningful.

Because words were regarded as higher and more significant vehicles of truth than symbols, images, poetry, gesture, and the like, all forms of communication other than the verbal became suspect.

Sparrow could also be considered a religious name, as the sparrow is a significant symbol in Christianity.

The trophies I got from hunting were not significant in themselves, but they gave the hunting significance as a symbol of what I accomplished as a hunter.

It deals with collecting the multiple narratives of artists difficult to classify because they have a very personal speech often linked to topics such as subjective memory, identity play autobiography, poetic senses... His themes of artistic settings are linked to individual symbols and a peculiar structure of their experiences, which has a very significant role in the works of contemporary artists in the IVAM collection as Robert Frank, Bruce Nauman, Christian Boltanski, Cindy Sherman, James Lee Byars, Juan Muñoz or Cristina Iglesias.

Created using gouache, pencil and the paper money from countries that have been in significant wars with the United States, the pieces stand as a symbol of excessive spending and landscapes transformed.

The fact that her mother repaired textiles for a living was significant; Bourgeois identified the spider as a healing creature as much as an aggressor or a symbol of fear.

As well a symbol is able to sustain a fair bit of degradation and still convey significant information, because of the way the data is encoded.

As shorthand to aid interpretation, we have used symbols to summarise statistically significant differences:

«As a result of NYRT management's many misjudgments, including its disastrous decision to approve the JBG transaction, we have absolutely no confidence in the ability of this board to unlock the significant value that remains trapped in NYRT's shares,» Ashner said in a statement Monday, referring to the REIT's ticker symbol.