Sentences with phrase «symbolic name»

The people will dwell securely in their land under the leadership of a king whose symbolic name will be «the Lord is our righteousness» (Jer.

Hosea understands himself to be called to take as wife a woman of ill repute — a whore, an adulteress — by whom he fathers three children with symbolic names: the Punished One (Jezreel), No Mercy (Lo Ruuhamah), and Not My People (Lo Ammi)(1:6 — 9).

This Hosea does; and to the three children now born to Gomer he gives symbolic names, making them living oracles of indictment in the community:

I am a small part of a larger conference called ReEngage, a symbolic name encouraging the Calvary Chapel movement to be planting at a higher level.

Combining facets of Dark Water and Rosemary's Baby with Dante's Inferno, the Orpheus legend, and the Old and New Testament (via scripture - quoting signs and Rose and Sharon's symbolic names), the film is detrimentally overstuffed with backstory, unbelievable protagonist behavior, and video game - worthy dialogue that doesn't improve even when spoken by a wraithlike Deborah Kara Unger or a psychotic Alice Krige.

Working through the neophyte filmmaker's genre playbook, director Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her vampire movie A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night with this dystopian flick most reminiscent of the Australian strain in terms of vibe / aesthetics, what with its shantytown sets, symbolic names, and obligatory feral child.

Verdun was chosen as a symbolic name for the game as the battle is regarded as the epitome of futility and struggle of the war especially in Germany and France and the European memory.