Sentences with phrase «symbol of life»

What always struck me in the picture are the flowers that my grandfather placed in his uniform and cap, as symbols of life and hope.

The figures of drunken men were sometimes carved on ancient gravestones as symbols of the life beyond death.

Ross Bleckner's beautiful and haunting Count No Count (1989) looks like a series of lights mysteriously suspended in the air; the lights are reminders of mortality, and symbol of those lives lost during the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s.

What take their place, however, is another equally expressive and interpretative symbol of the life and death of Jesus.

The burial hypogea, the cult of the fat ladies, and the other symbols of the living and the dead were completely abandoned.

Water is everywhere in the Alhambra and Generalife, the purest symbol of life to the Moors.

Flowers are a beautiful and powerful symbol of life across the ages, and when the petals fall off the rose, or the lilies decay, they also have come to represent peace in the afterlife — every civilization & culture in human history has derived different meanings from different flowers, according to their mysterious rhythms.

The Bay Area's own Bedford Gallery in the pleasant town of Walnut Creek has a Skull Show on view that brings together many interpretations of this ubiquitous symbol of life and death.

We intuitively recognize that flowers are a universal symbol of life and well being.»

Playing on the contradictory associations of speed and power as suggested in the title, Running Thunder conveys notions of mortality and passage of time, very much like a vanitas painting containing symbols of life and death.

People around the world have used labyrinths and mazes as symbols of life's complications.

Taking both symbols as representative and interpretative symbols of the life and death of Jesus, expressing the meaning of that life and death and therefore the meaning of Jesus, they both speak of Jesus as living and dying for others, as giving self, of being broken and being poured out, as being servant.

The heart is the symbol of the life, your being.

The Cross As A Symbol Of Life John's kenotic image of Jesus interprets his life as one of self - giving love, the revelation of Love Itself.

The danger with such an idea is that the ceremony becomes more of a magic show than a symbol of a life - changing event.

And, because we see the physical stones of the Church building as a symbol of the living stones of the people who are members of the Church, it is also a sign of our presence as the Church in the world.

In a country where the horse is both a way and a symbol of life and where man and his animals have acquired the stamina necessary to survive a rugged existence, this is not a great surprise.

Breastfeeding has a long history of being recognized as a symbol of life.

Flowers, a symbol of life, are essential.

A heartbeat is a symbol of life, and you may become a little choked up when you hear your baby's heart for the first time.

As Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein read the names, she was surrounded by black balloons: a symbol of the lives lost to opioid addiction in Erie County.

On Earth, green is a symbol of life and growth, but a recent study found that photosynthesizing organisms on other planets could have color signatures like red, orange, yellow, or black — but probably not blue.

Long a symbol of life and fertility in Eastern cultures, the fig tree has now shown that its sexual prowess is tops in the plant kingdom, at least in one respect: It appears to hold the distance record for how far its pollen routinely travels to fertilize other fig trees.

In ancient Egypt, copper was believed to be the symbol of life and to give magical...

And now it's a symbol of our life together and all the excitement yet to come.

It was inspired by the symbol of Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC), whose mission is to help survivors have a well - informed support crew — often critical for survival.

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Carmen de Lavallade is a marvel and a symbol of living theatre history as assorted characters.

«A tree is a symbol of life.

The resort of Yasmine Hammamet is named after the Jasmine flower — a symbol of life and happiness — and it's easy to see why.

By adopting this symbol of life, Ai turns it into a monument of durability and a piece of indelible memory for both physical eye witnesses and everybody else around the globe who became an observer of this historical period of time through the coverage of mass media.

Arthur Dworin's mixed media work contains a host of symbols of renewal - a Celtic symbol for spring, ribbons of DNA, a symbol of life and a snake, a symbol for medicine.

Although the figure evokes death and decay, Lockett also saw it as a symbol of life and renewal, referring to it as a «baby» and titling the series Rebirth.

The objects I painted were the symbols of the life I knew best».

Just as Whiteread's sculptures of beds inevitably prompt thoughts of birth, sex, and death, so the cast of the sink becomes a font, a testament to water as a symbol of life, as an element in human ritual.

Dasgupta's imagery often involves stylized interpretations of the female form, long a symbol of life itself.

«To me, glass is one of the most intriguing materials and Chihuly's work seems to transport glass to symbols of life and joy.»

«This series exemplifies Fischl's sense of voyeurism and his use of water as a recurrent theme, both the ocean as a symbol of life and the swimming pool as its domestic manifestation,» according to the arts center.

A map is a symbol of a living, breathing, moving body — the land is just as alive as we are.

And eggs, of course, are symbols of life and fecundity.

Carried by Buddhist belief that the soul remains onearth between death and transmigration for exactly this amount of time, this pig is now a symbol of life and hope, renamed Cast - Iron Pig (orZhu Gangqiang in Chinese, hence the theme of the show).

It is a symbol of living the high life, a way to protest against lack of meaning in another area of life, or an enjoyable ritual in its own right.

These representatives were elected to ensure that the project reflected in an art piece a symbol of the living culture and strong identity of the Noongar Nation.