Sentences with phrase «symbolic level»

Recently, however, there has been a change in this formalist orientation, and instead of shapes, colors and composition, artists and critics have begun to concern themselves more consciously with the personal and symbolic levels of works of art.

On a more symbolic level, a Murtha loss would raise serious questions about Pelosi's political acumen — questions she had largely put to rest in the runup to the 2006 election.

Scharf plumbs the psychological wells of collective myths for symbolic content: the crown of thorns, the ladder, the fish, and the cross can be found throughout, functioning not, as one might expect, as religious symbols, but rather as a means through which to access a deeper, symbolic level of visual communication.

The themes addressed in Soleil Double are not just about the proposed phenomena of two suns in axis around the earth but on a more symbolic level, about the concepts of duplicity and ubiquity, the idea that reality could be something other than what it appears to be at first glance, than what we take for granted as «true» and «right».

But at the symbolic level, the Blank - Out Campaign would announce that African Americans are done with business as usual.

They reflect instead the symbolic level of social activity.

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.

Cartoons like yours put light on the subject, bring it out of darkness and denial, actually work on the symbolic level which is where true change takes place.

On a symbolic level, a Bush candidacy would provide a major boost for Senate Republican strategists who spent much of the last four years trying unsuccessfully to recruit well known politicians into Senate races.

Cognition is an abstract property of advanced living organisms; therefore, it is studied as a direct property of a brain or of an abstract mind on subsymbolic and symbolic levels.

That gives us a language, and that ability to communicate with each other at a symbolic level means that we can achieve things that other animals just can't.

For now, it seems that this step reunites the rest of the world, but only on the symbolic level.

On a symbolic level, it signals to teachers that school leaders are placing a premium on engaging families and on supporting teachers to do so.

Hitting this symbolic level was reflective of a healthy and improving wage, inflation, and growth picture in the US.

Perhaps it is something about the idea of reinforcement as such that subverts the simplicity of the applied cubic geometry and its symbolic levels, appropriated by modern architecture, most notably since the Bauhaus.

This body of work toys with the history of the still life genre in its acknowledgment of our innate desire to organize and control nature on a symbolic level.

This reversal of order is not only important at the symbolic level, but may have implications for administrative procedures and the division of competences between national immigration and welfare authorities.

At the symbolic level, fostering is considered to be a sort of «second psychological birth», in that the foster family makes itself and its resources available to heal the child's primary affective damage, thereby giving rise to a «bond to heal the bond» (Greco & Iafrate, 2001), to the «renewal» of devastated experience and an improved self - esteem (Nunziante Cesaro & Ferraro, 1992; Saviane Kaneklin, 1995).

Clearly, this is an inadequate on both a practical and symbolic level to address the multiple factors that contribute to the significant health gap between the health and life expectancy of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Panelists Raúl A. Ramos, Nicole Guidotti - Hernández and C.J. Alvarez — knowledgeable historians of the Mexican - American border — will invite psychoanalytic inquiry by examining how these borders function at both concrete and symbolic levels.