Sentences with phrase «symbolic moments in»

Things are soon dire — which is Jolie's cue throughout the film to move in on Louis's face as he recalls symbolic moments in his life.

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When God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, it was not just to see if Abraham was faithful enough to follow his commandment, it was also symbolic of the sacrifice God himself would make in sacrifice his beloved and begotten son, but unlike Abraham who was spared at the last moment from carrying through with the sacrifice of his son, God the father actually carried through with the sacrifice and although it wasn't permanent it still did not mean that there was no anguish, it doesn't matter how brief it was, if it was enough for divine and eternal beings to have to go through such heartache, all of which for our lowly sakes, in my view that is quite significant and I believe that such suffering is actually beyond mine or anyone else's comprehension.

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

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When, that is to say, it becomes the effort of biblical theology to penetrate to the divine realities, forms, and intentions that have been temporally invested in reportorial forms available to the moment, it becomes the principal effort of systematic theology to interpret the biblical story in amplest symbolic dimensions.

After all, he seems not to come from a people that treats the writings of the prophet Hosea with due reverence, but he nonetheless has chosen this moment to perform a symbolic version of the actions of God toward Israel as depicted in the sixth chapter.

It is important to see that no individual or community comes to the moment in which the event and meaning are fused in witness without some existing symbolic tradition with which to express the meaning of this fusion.

The characteristics of so - called sacred time — symbolic intensity, deep emotion, repetitive corporate behavior — do not cluster only in special moments and places.

A sermon preached at that time by Sir Edwyn Hoskyns and later reprinted in Cambridge Sermon (Cambridge Sermons, pp. 34 - 35 (Faith Press, London, 1959) may perhaps be taken as the symbolic moment of the change.

Your minds are the problem; as you hitch yourselves to a game of some skill but often luck, with a million polemics each moment, where no outcome can ever be predicted in the hope of attaining an orgasm of superiority, but its symbolic victory, and do you really think there is such thing as victory?

It was a powerful symbolic moment — an inescapable reminder that the challenge of teaching low - income children has become the central issue in American education.

The queen «s role is symbolic and sacramental, she stands for us in our National moments.

«I know that Martin McGuinness and his colleagues will use this hugely symbolic moment to spur on their work to create a better future for everyone in Northern Ireland.»

This process of coming back to your physical balance center with the spine is the symbolic representation of bringing your self back to the present moment in which lay your real work and pleasure of discovering a new manifestation of your eternal soul.

While Yates doesn't do anything shockingly out of turn with the film, I found myself struggling to connect with the epic, symbolic conflict and was more interested in the smaller moments.

The best directors can get a complex performance, emblematized in iconic moments and symbolic inflections and gestures, from almost anyone.

But I believe these moments are meant to be more symbolic of the good versus evil struggle for the soul of Gotham city, rather than lapses in judgment from the creative team.

While these sort of heavy - handed references might work in the knowing artifice of one of the Matrix movies, as a real - world premise for our near future, it seems a bit too rooted in self - awareness to not continuously take us out of the moment for extended ruminations of symbolic reflection.

Recurring imagery that surrounds these moments is perhaps symbolic: Georges frequently closes windows; he deals with a pigeon trapped in the apartment; and paintings on the wall depict increasingly bleak landscapes with fewer people.

In the final moments of Skyfall the film explores symbolic mother / son and sibling relationships, giving the action purpose and emotional engagement.

When a little girl shows up in a bright blue dress and the student flirts with him at a bar surrounded by red in the background, we're thrown completely out of the moment for Ford's insistence on making his symbolic point so crystal clear.

Though Gerwig is still based in New York, Lady Bird could perhaps be her symbolic «hello to all that» moment, a statement piece that marks a new era in her work.

As head ape Caesar stands atop the rubble of a symbolic tower toppled moments before in a last ditch attempt by fearful humans to wipe out his kind, human benefactor Malcolm (Jason Clarke) confronts him in a fruitless bid to stop further fighting saying, «War isn't what [he] want [s].»

With Lifeforce, Hooper parodies the sexual panic that informs the classic vampire tale, which is often famously preoccupied with the fear that giving in to what truly turns you on could upset your carefully governed symbiosis with the rest of society — a subtext that Hooper immediately elevates to text with a series of opening moments that follow Tom's crew as they enter a collection of alien chambers that must surely constitute some of the most vaginally symbolic imagery in all of American cinema.

And the uncomfortable truth seems to be that it doesn't matter, because the only thing an indie author can do at the moment to push back against this possibility would be to refuse to join KDP Select in (a somewhat symbolic and empty) protest.

She freezes moments of loss or tragedy in symbolic tableaux on front lawns, well - groomed lakeshores, and front steps of suburban houses.

Gutiérrez's work considers how time affects both the material and symbolic world, observing how victory and celebration are conditional to a specific moment in history that easily fades away.

In a symbolic moment, the camera captures a digital clock ticking towards obsolescence.

Bruce Silverstein Gallery has chosen to reunite these seven artists with the intent of re-examining this crucial moment in the history of American art and its continued relevance toward exploring the abstract and symbolic nature of art.

In this video, the artist «ssmidd» describes how the installation THE MOMENT involved a process of transforming surfaces, cultivating shadows, dramatically affecting the atmosphere, and creating symbolic structures to encourage a dream / reality space.

Black Women / Black Lives explores the symbolic and narrative portrayal of Black women in art and material culture inspired by Civil Rights and Black liberation movements of the 1960s through our own 21st century moment.

Counts further conveys the symbolic depth of objects with her two most figurative sculptures in the exhibition, Moment A, a massive candle dripping with satisfying layers of blue, white, gray, and silver glazes, and Moment B, a colorful vase full of large ceramic roses.

but sometimes symbolic of an event or place witnessed, felt or experienced... a moment in time.

Locke describes seeing the decay of these beautiful houses, which he once dreamed of living in, as seeing his childhood fall apart — an emotional and symbolic moment.

Together, these works examine the conditions in which symbolic moments enter history, how these circumstances evolve over time, and how memory and history compete for relevance in the present.

Now that this work now hangs in a Californian Gallery is hugely symbolic as California became Marshall's home when he won a scholarship to study abstract painting in 2012; a proud moment of glory after a severe personal battle with mental health.

Additionally, every one of 302's designs is a symbolic representation of a moment in an individual's life and is printed on an American Apparel t - shirt.

It was not only a loss of a particularly apt symbolic moment, it also obscured the Government's own commitment to concrete action in health, housing, employment and education by presenting it as an alternative to any symbolic gesture of apology.

The recent opening of Taubman Centers» new mall in Salt Lake City might have marked a nice symbolic moment for the retail real estate industry, but it's not about to usher in a new era of construction abandon...