Sentences with phrase «symbolic figures of»

With an estimated 500,000 public sector jobs set to go over the next four years, the figures raise the possibility of unemployment edging towards the symbolic figures of three million unless, as the coalition hopes, rapid growth in the private sector stymies the impact of redundancies.

In this myth the Paraiyars, firstly, presented as being a helpful community; they are even willing to suffer persecution in the service of protecting a refugee.28 Secondly, this remythologised version of the emergence of the goddess reinforces the notion that the Paraiyars are the recipients of undeserved violence; they are caught within the various subtle conflicts of the caste community and they are affected because of it spilling over onto the Dáevas.29 What is most interesting in this regard is the association of this victimization with symbolic figures of Women.

Moss, as an overlooked protagonist for conversations that never happened in her lifetime, is the pre-eminently undigested presence in this exchange and the symbolic figure of resistance to an over homogenised history of British art.

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«He was not a senior military figure within ISIS so the military impact on the ground will be small, but the symbolic impact is of course significant.

This ecstatic union of Satan and Jerusalem is in process of fulfillment even as Albion (Blake's symbolic figure representing a universal but fallen humanity) experiences the final epiphany of Jesus.

Secondly, he presents the symbolic statuary figures as exemplifying the dual and simultaneous presence of permanence and fluency in a same moment of reality.

Many scholars regard the figure of Jonah in this book as a symbolic representation of the people of Israel, and then the period of three days and three nights during which Jonah remained in the belly of the great fish represents the exile in which Israel was swallowed by Bel.

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines metaphor as «a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable... a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.»

Because of his symbolic role as a religious authority figure, the minister naturally attracts a circle of dependent persons who gain strength by identifying with him and with the group which he leads.

The symbolic significance of the Army's murder of the country's leading academic and religious figures can not be overstated: the deaths signal that, once again, no one is safe from Army and death squad violence... The Bush Administration has taken the position that the Jesuit murders were a dramatic departure from Salvadoran army policy, and represent an opportunity for President Cristiani to demonstrate that the army is not above the law.

(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 fourth approach to the congregation, the symbolic, is figured by the totem, the most potent of metaphors.

The kids even ask me sometimes what the words mean as if they're somehow driven to figure out the strange symbolic codes of their fellow human beings.

The storm of conflicting opinions centres on the Mrs Thatcher who became a symbolic figure - even an «ism».

Ptolemy himself might be represented by one of the figures on the lower right, in a crumbling Alexandria, possibly also symbolic of the decline of his cosmological design, following the revolutionary findings of Copernicus.

But instead of a religious icon, the tribe clearly just see the gorilla as a symbolic figure, taking a cue from the Christopher Priest - scripted Black Panther comic.

Made between his cult western Johnny Guitar and his legendary Rebel Without a Cause, it in many ways anticipates the latter in the western mode of the former, though with a more conventional approach and an emphasis on the father figure over the symbolic son.

Seemingly writing for the audience of a creative writing evening class, screenwriter Carlos De Los Rios — a veteran of such Z - grade mockbusters as The Da Vinci Treasure and Pirates Of Treasure Island — loads up on hamfisted symbolic figures, including the requisite tormenting devil (Walton Goggins) and mystical Indian (Adam Beachof a creative writing evening class, screenwriter Carlos De Los Rios — a veteran of such Z - grade mockbusters as The Da Vinci Treasure and Pirates Of Treasure Island — loads up on hamfisted symbolic figures, including the requisite tormenting devil (Walton Goggins) and mystical Indian (Adam Beachof such Z - grade mockbusters as The Da Vinci Treasure and Pirates Of Treasure Island — loads up on hamfisted symbolic figures, including the requisite tormenting devil (Walton Goggins) and mystical Indian (Adam BeachOf Treasure Island — loads up on hamfisted symbolic figures, including the requisite tormenting devil (Walton Goggins) and mystical Indian (Adam Beach).

As if to establish a symbolic pattern of lifeless figures hiding an undercurrent of extreme emotional repression, the film opens with a montage of different statues whose contorted faces are frozen in rage.

INCLUDES 1 Hands - On Standards Math Teacher Resource Guide Grade 8 with 27 lessons TOPICS The Number System Approximating square roots Irrational square roots Expressions and Equations Squares and square roots Cube roots Slope as a rate of change Problem solving with rates of change One, No, or infinitely many solutions Solving multi-step equations Solving equations with variables on both sides Solving systems of equations Functions Graphing linear equations Linear functions Lines in slope - intercept form Symbolic algebra Constructing functions Geometry Congruent figures and transformations Reflections, translations, rotations, and dilations Triangle sum theorem Parallel lines transected by a transversal Pythagorean theorem Statistics and Probability Scatter plot diagrams Line of best fit Making a conjecture using a scatter plot

Charms worn by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians and Hittites were created from lapis lazuli, rock crystal and other gems and inscribed with symbolic designs, like figures of gods, humans and animals.

This year 8000 fires will be lit at 10 pm, creating a huge 360 ° panorama of bonfire art: flaming symbolic figures include representations of Christ, crucifixes and deer.

Dominating the space, Gilbert & George appear in The Beard Pictures as looming, otherworldly figures masked by surreal and symbolic beards; referencing beards not only as an emblem of millennial youth, but also as a mark of religious faith and social status.

No longer symbolic, the depicted figures now have their own life born of a direct relationship with painting itself.

From textiles to advertizing, from icon - laden clothing to symbolic images, and from comics to films, this expansive exhibition traces the path of the uniform from the immediate post-war period to today through some of its most emblematic figures.

Gilbert & George appear in THE BEARD PICTURES as looming, otherworldly figures masked by surreal and symbolic beards; referencing beards not only as an emblem of millennial youth, but also as a mark of religious faith and social status.

The exception to the series is the last painting, a portrayal of intellectual and activist Susan Sontag as a young woman alongside a heavily blacked - out male figure, again symbolic of the contributions to contemporary culture made by a woman in a predominantly male - orientated world.

Without the distraction of recognizable imagery, Fox pursued his preoccupation with figure - ground ambiguity and moved through abstract impressionism to collage - inspired symbolic abstraction.

Each of the cards can be described as an archetype, a symbolic figure or situation of great significance that represents our journey starting with the innocence (The Fool) and ends with complete knowledge (The Universe).

Those dumb one - eyed potato - heads and hooded Ku Klux Klan figures are both self - portraits of sorts; tragicomic figures in a schematic universe filled with symbolic objects like any Renaissance painting.

Rejecting both naturalism and pure abstraction at the end of the Second World War, Cobra valued unbridled experimentation and creative freedom, manifested in brilliant, colorful paintings of distorted figures that provided a more symbolic and political European counterpoint to the roughly contemporary «action painting» of the Abstract Expressionists in the U.S..

In her use of figures derived from the grammar of ornament, Wright explores their latent symbolic content and mines the subliminal messages that they contain.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

The Holy Mountain is an absurdist and picaresque satire depicting the journey of a Christ - like figure, the Thief, to a symbolic mountain that is said to unite Heaven and Earth.

A tragically emblematic figure in the emergence of Korea as a modern nation, Yi Gu was a young architect in I.M. Pei's New York office when he was summoned back to Korea by Park Chung - hee, who sought to shore up his dictatorial regime by enacting a symbolic restoration of Joseon Dynasty.

While its exact meaning has not been established, the Pitti painting seems to represent a symbolic turning point in the life of the protagonist, who literally turns away from his companion toward the older figure, interrupting the performance.

Over the course of his career Terry Winters has expanded the concerns of abstract art, beginning with botanically inspired images (cells, spores, seeds) and going on to explore biological processes, scientific and mathematical fields, and issues raised by the interaction of information technologies and the human mind, while maintaining a strong modernist sensibility that reveals itself in the symbolic languages of figures and lines he develops in his work Winters (born 1949) received a BFA from Pratt University, New York, in 1971.

Another element of symbolic representation is at the center of this work — a razor blade near the figure's mouth.

Faces and figures appear in the second part of the show, frequently interpreted as psychologically symbolic for the artist; this idea is borne out by both the focus and title of Portrait and a Dream (1953), one of few named works on display.

That exhibition, which included his symbolic, hooded figures, had a powerful impact on at least three generations of artists who have re-engaged figuration after decades in which abstraction dominated American painting.

Incorporating a symbolic figurative presence as an alternative to the external appearance of a human figure — a traditional marker of our existence — these works locate the body through spaces, materials, sensations, and information that exist in relation to it (and to us).

The artistic choice to refuse any such allusions enhances the symbolic quality of the figures that have become emblematic for the artist.

The figure of the goat features prominently in Nari Ward: G.O.A.T., again as the artist's articulation of social dynamics, conjuring the animal's attributes and symbolic connotations, from an ambitious climber of great heights to an outcast.

With a touch of Surrealism, Elizabeth Murray inserts ghost - like figures within her work, as well as some dog bones and other symbolic elements.

She utilizes personal narratives, archival sources, and divinatory tools — including astrology, graphology, and palmistry — to construct symbolic portraits of well - known figures, such as José Clemente Orozco, and members of the public, such as museum visitors.

Under a veil of mystery, these figures perform symbolic rituals and communicate in an unknown language, perform traditional dances and follow certain rules of a community.

Highlights of the exhibition also include major works, such as Racconti di Guascogna (Tales from Gascony) 1951, and Ragazzo col Tacchino (Boy with Turkey) 1955, which show how Afro's more symbolic representation of objects and figures shifted to become a purely expressive and emotional form of abstraction.

Surreal and at times overwhelming, the compositions often feature a singular human figure — in many instances a portrait of Heffernan herself — intertwined with a myriad of flora, fauna and symbolic objects.

Graham's late paintings are characterized by the crossed eyes and flat presentation of the figures and by symbolic surface embellishments drawn from astrology, alchemy, and the occult.

Seemingly behaving according to a symbolic language of their own, they pose alone or interact in communal dances, with some figures holding torches and others exposed naked from the waist down.