Sentences with phrase «symbolic levels of»

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.

They reflect instead the symbolic level of social activity.

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.

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This approach assumes that narrative accounts form analogues to the composition of historical events and that the dynamics of narrative are expressed in events as symbolic transformations, emerging in temporal patterns, and resulting in definite configurations that can be analyzed at several levels of abstraction.

«Roe v. Wade certainly did engage the pro-life movement by being so symbolic of an issue, but I don't think the level of opposition to abortion has really shifted that much over time,» Dimock said.

Not only does this have practical value at a time when family members may not have the time or energy to fix meals but it also has a profound symbolic meaning on the level of feeding and nurturing.

He may also have thought that Whitehead's theism belonged with theism in general as a fallacious attempt to humanize the universe; for Santayana, though he saw theistic religion as possessing a type of poetic or symbolic truth, was, at the level of blunt factuality, an atheist.)

(In an arrangement richly symbolic of the measure of respect given to NGOs, they were allocated working space on the lower level of the vast Vienna International Center, while the official country delegates conducted business over their heads on the floors above.)

We can find, therefore, very general similarities between the use and interpretation of sentences at the linguistic level and primitive natural signs as characterized in Whitehead's first version of symbolic reference.

In defining symbolic universes Berger contrasts them with simpler levels of legitimation such as proverbs, maxims, and theories.

Both art and religion are rooted in the Logos, and the language of both is symbolic; for symbols, whether religious or aesthetic, open up levels of reality which are otherwise closed for us and unlock dimensions of our soul which correspond to that reality.

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.

In other words, if he could come down from his symbolic mountain above the battle and meet the tormented soul of the alcoholic on its own level of suffering; the soul could perhaps accept comfort from him and gain some of his faith.

Because the deeper, nonverbal levels tend to be impoverished in our culture, worship should concentrate special attention on these levels through the use of symbolic and artistic expressions.

The development of cognition in general is conceived in Piaget's genetic theory as a reconstruction of earlier forms of cognitive organization with new means and on a new level; the best known example of this development is the transformation and reconstruction of sensori - motor activity schemata into symbolic - conceptual thinking operations.

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

But it is precisely because this feeling remains for the most part buried beneath the level of our immediate awareness that we need symbolic expression to bring this value into our conscious awareness so as to bolster and vivify our capacity to trust.

But because it is a higher level that is comprehending a lower, the symbolic forms by which it is embodied will always have a quality of incomprehensibility about them that eludes our conscious efforts at mastery.

This identification occurred not only on the intellectual theological level, but on all levels of the liturgy, the cult, the religious symbolic language, and the mythology.

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.

There is a level of ignorance that some people who don't know the symbolic meaning of certain things exhibit and pretend that they know it all.

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.

«They've reached levels of toolmaking proficiency generally associated with an animal with a big brain, dextrous hands and symbolic language — in other words humans,» says Gavin Hunt, a biologist at the University of Auckland.

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

While the milestone is largely a symbolic one, it does illustrate how far emissions have risen from their preindustrial levels of 280 ppm.

While the particular mark is symbolic, it serves to show how far concentrations have risen from their pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm as fossil fuels such as coal and oil have continued to be burned.

In 2015, carbon dioxide levels passed the symbolic threshold of 400 parts per million, which is more than 40 percent above pre-industrial levels.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

But Garrone and a bevy screenwriters (including Saviano himself) more than met the challenge by filleting a selection of narratives both personal and symbolic in scope, interweaving them with thrilling nous and dexterity, and finally, handling the potentially unwieldy juggernaut with a level of patience and compassion that recalled Roberto Rossellini's studies of post-WWII Italy.

As students progress through the six levels of Modular Math: Functions they will have opportunities to develop the definition for a function as well as to work with and understand the notation and symbolic representations for various functions.

Stat Lady was innovative beyond its humorous digitally animated host, in that the student model was very tightly aligned to the content model and was coded into procedural, symbolic, conceptual elements, and tracked with a very fine level of granularity in order to deliver appropriate curriculum sequencing and remediation to the student at precisely the most valuable time.

So in this sense the Alfa Romeo 4C supercar is a symbolic product with an extremely high level of quality and technological refinement that embodies the deepest values of the Alfa Romeo brand.

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

One former Fed official downplayed the less than robust level of bank borrowing from the Fed, saying that discount window moves tend to be symbolic in nature, in contrast the open market operations it conducts.

With your symbolic adoption of Matthew the mouse, we will demand changes to Canada's inadequate animal cruelty laws at the federal level.

Girl Scouts celebrated their accomplishments by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in symbolic recognition of their transition from the «junior» level of Girl Scouting to the older girl program.

«On the micro level, we are three women from an abandoned community, but on the macro level, I see us as symbolic of state oppression and neglect,» she is quoted as saying in the exhibition brochure.

In Los Ninos Brotan de Noche (The Children that Spring out at Night)(2001), his new video installation for P.S. 1, the artist develops the notion of a journey both on a geopolitical and a broader symbolic and mythical level.

Grave - like pits, gushing blood, and gunpowder silhouettes operate on a symbolic and primordial level, but it's important to note that some of her earliest work was a direct response to the rape and murder of a nursing student on her college campus in 1973 at University of Iowa.

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.

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».

The In situ props, which all share the symbolic value of both escape and uprising, interact with wanderers on various levels: may these be physical, visual, narrative or emotional.

All of the artists employ research - based practices, allowing the work to be experienced on multiple levels beyond the recurring symbolic themes of light and dark.

In this way the artists featured in Latent Content Analysis, present us with the opportunity to challenge our subconscious levels of awareness and enjoy both the outer world of our shared experiences and the mysterious inner world of our own symbolic language.

On a more abstruse level, the process of entering the mine and re-emerging became, for Lanyon, a symbolic rebirth and a metaphor for his own identification with west Cornwall.

The artist describes his approach as one of «pure experiential seeing»: His works are not intended to be interpreted and understood through acquired symbolic systems; rather they should be experienced on a sensory level.

An avid writer, the artist also turns her hand - written deep thoughts into symbolic neon signs, which glow in space like a physical proof of one's consciousness and resonate with the viewers on a metaphysical level.

Leader of Keeling Curve measurement says temporary bump from El Niño could push atmospheric CO2 levels above symbolic threshold for good

I propose that Becker's cross-disciplinary «science of man,» and the predictions it generates for proximate - level determinants of social behavior, add significantly to our understanding of and potential for managing the people paradox, i.e., that the very things that bring us symbolic immortality often conflict with our prospects for survival.