Sentences with phrase «symbolic character of»

Many attempts have been made to show the symbolic character of much of the human enterprise, from rite and myth to art and science.

It isn't that we never experience religious fear, but isn't our dread characteristically a dread born of unbelief, the secret terror that the analogical and symbolic character of our religious speech is but a cover - up of our embarrassment over the fact that we have only symbols and no proofs?

However, in the past few decades many Christian thinkers, recognizing the difficulty of supporting claims about cosmic realities, have emphasized the symbolic character of all such language.

Not exact matches

Wonder Woman's symbolic value has been equivocal from the character's inception, decades before she first made the cover of Ms. Magazine.

In that event language is robbed of its symbolic character.

At alpha, the only kind of proof for omega is precisely the character of alpha itself as symbolic.

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

Some myths contain within themselves the nexus of a concrete historical event experienced by a group or by an individual while many have lost their historical character and contain only the symbolic expression of a universal experience of man.

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.

I do not pretend to understand all the reasons for this gradual drying up of the Protestant imagination in America — and the failure of creativity at the symbolic level should not blind us to the continuing power of the Protestant impulse in personal character and social movements.

Notice that such mistakes are not intellectual in character, since this type of symbolic reference does not involve the operation of thought.

In practical operation, both use language as if it were a literal description of reality, and only in more reflective moments is this symbolic and interpretive character recognized.

Process theism need not dissolve these particularities into symbolic manifestations of universal truth, since it can proclaim a God vitally interested in precisely these particularities whose activity is shaped by their peculiar character.

A few histories of local churches have examined the identifying cultural traits of their subjects, exploring the symbolic patterns that give a particular congregation its unique character, instead of the far more common topics of local church history, such as campaigns, catastrophes, and clergy.

In the Introduction, I used the sprawling campus and geographical layout of Michigan State University as symptomatic and symbolic of the fragmentary character of modern knowledge.

Whether or not we favor stepped - up prosecution of obscene materials, those of us in religious communities have a special interest in the formation of character and dispositions — in the moral atmosphere of our society and in a whole range of symbolic concerns.

This is excellent news, news of a highly symbolic character, since the Holy Sepulchre is the most sacred place for Christians of all confessions.

Most ordinary theologians today are impressed with the metaphorical, symbolic and mythical character of our language and our concepts.

Thus are communities of character — to cite a fine Hauerwasian phrase — turned into the «historic» and «symbolic» ties of a discarded past.

Classical discussions of the symbolic and analogical character of religious language were dependent on the metaphysical assumptions of Platonism or scholasticism, which can no longer be presupposed; more recent interpretations often hold that religious images are only symbols of man's subjective life.

I shall propose in Chapter 11 that it is the nature of symbolic expression to represent to us some aspects of what we receive in primary perception.23 And for this reason we must not be overly critical of the apparently fuzzy and ambiguous character of symbolic representation.

These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.

Several characteristics of the empires are shown in these symbolic and visionary descriptions: 1) The most important characteristic is their rebellious character against the Sovereignty of God.

For this reason we can say that revelation universally has the character of symbolic communication.

And seeing the opulence and decadence of the Capitol (with garish characters like Stanley Tucci's blue - haired talk - show host, Elizabeth Banks» vain and clueless 12th district tribute wrangler Effie Trinket, and Wes Bentley's maniplative game - controller Seneca Crane), is really only symbolic representation of the 1 % vs 99 % that is in the news today.

[One could read this story as a symbolic tale of Eden like the early chapters of the Biblical book of Genesis, with its prototypical Adam and Eve characters, the natural bounty of God's generous gifts, the biting of the apple, temptation, sin, and subsequent banishment from «heaven» by the coming of a fiery «hell.»]

Ross keeps the symbolic connection of Seabiscuit's rise to fame and victory in the background, concentrating his tale on its three central characters.

The action sequences are well - staged and some of the more dramatic and symbolic moments feature characters surrounded by bright and beautiful visuals.

Furthermore, the motivations of the characters and small attempts at symbolic touches give the film a very bizarre feel, as if trying to give ersatz meaning to the meaningless.

No one will accuse 99 Homes of tackling the housing crisis with a subtle hand, as its characters are more symbolic than fully - forged; however, the way it drafts Nash's deal with the devil makes his choices far more understandable.

Director Gregor Jordan shoots his film with a glossy sheen (possibly symbolic of the characters» superficialty?)

With a little less symbolic pretense, and a little more concentration on good characters and storyline, the foundation was set to make Hero one of the best films of recent years.

Although to ensure the Cogburn character remains symbolic, certain costume facets had to remain — the battered wide brim hat and eye - patch most of all.

They do a great job, of course, but they are more symbolic, archetypes, rather than fleshed out characters.

Students analyze symbolic representations; make inferences; identify and analyze themes; compare characters, setting, and tone in multiple versions of a text; and analyze the impact of structure and meaning in storytelling.

One typical feature of the contemporary Mercedes design idiom is the arrow shape of the front end - a styling touch with a symbolic character that emphasises typical attributes such as forward motion and agility.

This precursor to the E ‑ Class from 1953 boasted a similarly expressive anatomy, lending it a robust character — a symbolic feature and hallmark of the E-Class.

Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story.

Often times, video games will use the look of the player's character as part of an ongoing theme or symbolic arc.

Unlike his contemporaries, such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman whose art expressed an urge to transcendence, Kline was focused on pure abstract forms and gesture itself, deprived of any symbolic character or «painting experience».

I'm influenced by their ability to tell an entire story through signs, patterns, and symbolic characters» — a clear echo of the comic books that once set a remarkably versatile artist on his path.

Offerings in Zheng's Chinese Style Blessing series include the characters for «good luck,» «prosperity,» «longevity,» and «happiness» and, in the same spirit, the symbolic imagery of roosters, flowers, dragons, phoenixes, babies and Mao Zedong.

Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as his use of color, language, and pattern — into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning.

Portrayed communing with a wolf, taking shelter with its pelt, and being born from its womb, Smith's character of Genevieve embodies the complex, symbolic relationships between humans and animals.

Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as the use of color, language, and pattern — into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning.

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

Ostensibly, his deceptively simple works (drawings, paintings and animations — reflecting choices of medium, which are solidly within the mainstream tradition of the Japanese graphic story - telling tradition of Manga) is predicated around self - portraits of his alter ego, «Bunny», and his adventures in the contemporary world, surrounded by a host of other reappearing symbolic characters.

Powerful, culturally symbolic imagery which is recurring in Erizku's oeuvre, such as the Black Panther, the bust of Nefertiti, and Erizku's iconic hand and rose are combined with potent phrases in Chinese characters such as «Black Panther», «Black Power» and «Black Love», respectively.

It is perhaps fitting, then, that curator Przemysław Strożek uses the work as a symbolic point of departure for an exhibition that simultaneously serves as the first large - scale retrospective of Prampolini's work since the early 1990s and as a portrait of the international character of the Polish avant - garde, the centenary of which is this

Distinct from the symbolic portraits comprising her Counterforms series, in this new work Souders taps into the burlesque of humanity, depicting characters that blur the line between biographical and fictive.