Sentences with phrase «symbolic acts»

Symbolic acts can become substantive later on if you make sacrifices and follow through again and again.

They were all larger than life and incidents of history are great heroic dramas or symbolic acts that still stir our hearts.

These breaches in the construct of Soleimani's characters serves to expose the bodies of those in power to symbolic acts of violence as well as subvert their traditional displays of masculinity and authority; at the same time, it reveals the bodies of those that might suffer at the hands of men in power as they accrue wealth through brutal acts of exploitation against humanity and the earth.

Bartoletti says while the governor began his term with some symbolic acts, like reopening the historic hall of governors on the second floor of the Capitol, long closed off to the public, he still has some work to do.

Blair's presentation was based on «Newness», created by symbolic acts in his early days, notably the abandonment of Clause IV, which had little meaning for the public except for the impression of modernity.

The naming of the dog could be one of the first symbolic acts before taking office.

Myths are expressed, not only in symbolic words, but also in symbolic acts — dance, gesture, drama, and formalized cultic acts or rites.

From practical, well - judged statements that the liturgy, church services, have their essential place, as symbolic acts, he ran the full gamut through to existential, even mystical, affirmations.

This is especially clear in the symbolic acts of the prophets.

When aristocracy gives way to some other stable social form, aristocratic manners are replaced by a system of symbolic acts that express the character of the new society.

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

In Romans 14 speaking about symbolic acts, Paul makes the remarkable statement that nothing is unclean of itself, only if one thinks it is unclean, is it unclean.

In this respect John Paul II is most effective as a teacher through his symbolic acts and liturgies and least effective when he explicitly sets out to teach.

Was it Jesus» intention to establish a new rite to be observed by his followers, or was he, like the Old Testament prophets, trying to say by symbolic acts what he had been telling the disciples and they had been unable to comprehend?

Perform meaningful symbolic acts.

Baptism is much more than a symbolic act.

In this prophetic and symbolic act, Ravasi writes, Jesus draws a sharp contrast between a religion of superficiality and self - absorption and a pure faith, centered on his person.

That white churches would send ministers to Mississippi to stand with the «crazy niggers,» however briefly, affirming to the world the soundness of what they were doing, was a powerful symbolic act.

Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power in the midst of a most ordinary human activity.

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

The meaning of this symbolic act clearly depends on the setting in which it occurs.

The Free Churches assume baptism would be a mere symbolic act, which follows conversion and a public confession of the new faith, aslo an act of obedience.

It was a symbolic act out of obedience, but the actual blood of the lamb had no actual power, it was God who ultimately chose to forgive his faithful followers»

What symbolic act would be meaningful to you personally as an expression of your faith?

His prophetic word was this symbolic act; the baptism of repentance.

if this is symbolic - then go to your local jail and just do this symbolic act on feet of 10 persons - and then talk to me.

Assumed, Mr. Long and his Free Church see baptism as a mere symbolic act, I would not wonder that he experienced a fall (I don't know, whether he has really experienced a fall, but it is supposed in the article above), because he can not be connected with the true Redeemer.

The instructions to the twelve in all three Gospels, and to the seventy also in Luke, include the symbolic act of shaking the dust from their feet when they leave a town that will not receive them (Mk 6:1 l; Mt 10:14; Lk 9:5; 10:10 - 11).

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

The willingness to offer the son and some (here not prescribed) symbolic act to that effect is called for (see 13:2,13,15).

He called the symbolic act «extreme.»

Greg Barker, who has personally supported Meat Free Monday since the start of the year said: «Giving up meat one day a week is more than just a symbolic act and, if enough of us do it, will send a very powerful and loud message to world leaders.

There was severe disruption in central London, with protestors shutting the bridge in a symbolic act disconnecting parliament from St Thomas» Hospital, on the other side of the Thames.

Students will show their displeasure at cuts and tuition fees in a symbolic act of protest later today, as demonstrators head to Conservative offices in North London.

The police officer investigating the cash for honours scandal has insisted the arrest of Lord Levy yesterday was not just a symbolic act to show he was serious.

The only logical conclusion is that no - platforming has become a symbolic act rather than a serious attempt to suppress certain viewpoints.

«This is a positive step but it needs to be more than just a symbolic act.

«Symbols can have great importance, but particularly in our current terrible economic straits, I can not agree to put individuals out of work for a symbolic act.»

That was a symbolic act.

It's chiefly a symbolic act: Kylo, who established his volcanic temper as the formidable new heavy of The Force Awakens, is determined to «let the past die» — to emerge...

Look, I understand wanting to show up and support, but white people need to understand that this symbolic act of raising your hands in a position of surrender is meant to illustrate how black people are violently targeted by police because of their race.

If you don't have the mechanism for assessing student achievement in the standards, then putting the standards in place is, at best, a symbolic act.

It is a common practice for those celebrating Vesak Day to release animals into the wild as a symbolic act of liberation.

In a monumental painting that spans one wall of the gallery, white text on a black background explains the different codes that cartographers employ to represent various features of the land and sea, thus highlighting the process of mapping as a symbolic act.

In 1974, Joseph Beuys did a performance called I Love America, and America Loves Me where he lived in a gallery with a wild coyote for seven days as a symbolic act of reconciliation with nature.

In a symbolic act of rebellion and destruction, Bourgeois's 1974 installation Destruction of the Father both signals a clear distancing of herself from her biological father, and possibly an act of closure for the artist in regards to this initial betrayal.

In the past 3 years, in Egypt (Tahrir), Turkey (Taksim), Ukraine (Maidan), the United States (Wall Street), Venezuela (Altamira), and many others countries, people have expressed their anger by taking over iconic public squares and plaza, and naming their movement after this symbolic act.

Entering the main gallery space without shoes is a symbolic act with, undoubtedly, an underlying performative element.

From Sydney to San Francisco, Rome to NYC and even Casey Station down in Antarctica, folks around the globe stood together for one hour in a symbolic act to spread the message that they care about climate change, and that something must be done to stop it.

«It's not just a symbolic act,» Everett said.