Sentences with word «symbolic»

Here's a simple yet stylish party favour: Cookies in symbolic shapes in the vibrant blue and white palette.

I could let it go - it came back but now it's a reminder of that era & not as symbolic of my life!

There is an interest in defining a period of our collective history and cultural understanding through objects of symbolic meaning used for ritual and cultural identity.

Most of the traditional rituals include the use of symbolic gestures.

Every culture associates colors with different ideas and emotions, but the correlation is obvious, colors effect behavior, are used for symbolic significance and are utilized by everyone.

A series of vessels are painted entirely, inside and out, with symbolic imagery of figures reacting physically to the emotional angst that accompanies failed relationships.

Ironically, homeowners or renters insurance questions frequently begin when couples buy engagement and wedding rings — things of actual as well as symbolic value — or accumulate expensive household items.

The error involved in symbolic reference is still greater.

A second innovative leap 100,000 years ago, when early humans started experimenting with new materials and designs, has been linked with the evolution of symbolic language.

In the long struggle for human freedom and equality the status quo had to be challenged, and with it the system of symbolic acts which helped to sustain it.

His attitude to mythology - an attitude shared by his contemporaries - was that myths embodied universal human truths in symbolic form.

In addition to being highly visible over long distances by our species, red is also the color of blood, charging it with even more symbolic significance.

That forces them to think in more symbolic ways when defining a term.

The discovery has important implications for how and when humans developed the ability for symbolic expression.

As such, given the current political and fiscal climate, many of his budget proposals are unlikely to be approved and are largely symbolic in nature.

The departments are all the same but have taken on symbolic meaning.

Start a new tradition to honor the eagle and customs in a more symbolic way.

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

As an artist, he did large oil paintings of men's heads surrounded by symbolic dramatic landscapes, and smaller paintings of birds and flowers.

For example, I think of painting as a stage set on which symbolic action is performed.

These two minor things became symbolic, for her, of being in a very different, possibly scary, place.

Here certainly, as in the case of the other four «last things,» we are talking in highly symbolic language.

The sculptures and installations illustrate these intimate moments through symbolic imagery that is figurative in nature, but often expresses the human subject through absence.

Or will the shift from symbolic images to photo - realism be merely a cosmetic upgrade?

It is characteristic of language that many different symbolic systems can be used to express roughly the same world of meanings.

Whether working with text, an actor, a set, or a song, the artist treats symbolic elements as independent objects.

It will have major symbolic importance when it comes to the approval of such deals, however.

The file system will also not be case sensitive and you can't create symbolic links on them.

[1] The motif consists of an empty throne and various other symbolic objects, in later depictions surrounded when space allows by angels paying homage.

Plus, these lonely towers serve any number of symbolic functions.

It was not merely symbolic; it was a heavy timber designed specifically as His instrument of death.

The new titles are a largely symbolic move because the two newly appointed CEOs were already leaders of their respective divisions.

I'm a mixed media artist using recycled materials, iconic / symbolic images with paint (on some occasions) to produce patterns.

The experts tell me that the computer depends on symbolic logic, a very technical subject.

Some students may feel very comfortable drawing a character from a novel, but others may excel in using symbols and shapes to make symbolic representations.

I think it's so neat that while they're gorgeous, they're also symbolic of such positive things.

Such a project would be of more than just symbolic significance.

No system of ritual uniquely and exclusively qualifies as a vehicle for affirming devotion through symbolic acts.

What are the most common symbolic votes to be cast?

Finally, while I've made this point many times, I'll make it again: For the past quarter - century, schooling has played a significant symbolic role in presidential contests.

Rail is not as safe a method of moving oil as pipelines are, but who cares about safety when there are symbolic victories to be had?

Often, it's a useful technique to render an abstract idea into symbolic imagery to give it punch or make it easily understood and memorable.

When making the «L» structure I was thinking about symbolic shapes relating to code.

Using larger culture contexts, both artists have continued to politically challenge status quo assumptions of our cultural symbolic order for over three decades.