Sentences with phrase «symbolic gestures like»

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And also, if the OT prophets were so good, how is it that such a commonplace prophecy, like Jesus's entry to Jerusalem on donkey takes prophetic priority over such major events as the Last Supper or the Foot Washing scene, an event that at least one commentary listed as one of the most important symbolic gestures ever made by Jesus.

To paraphrase Will Rogers, Howard's never met a violin swell, standing ovation, or hackneyed symbolic gesture he didn't like, and A Beautiful Mind is stuffed to bursting with soulless tearjerks.

Consistent with his past work, Haggerty maintains in these paintings a focus on the dynamic gesture of line that embodies not actual objects, but rather, actions or occurrences, like letters or other symbolic abstractions.

Like most serious art, this basic gesture found a symbolic way to illuminate an entire other world — in this case, one we'd like to see banished for gLike most serious art, this basic gesture found a symbolic way to illuminate an entire other world — in this case, one we'd like to see banished for glike to see banished for good.

Your point about AGW advocates still holding power over things like the IPCC and peer review is true enough though and that is where some highly symbolic gestures need to be made, just as in NI.

It can be about making people feel good (symbolic environmental gestures for example), or result from poor assessment of relative risks (people tend to fear the invisible risk like toxins in food more than the real risk of driving), or from «me to» behavior.