Sentences with phrase «symbolic power as»

As a simple machine, a stick can transform energy, increasing tangible force as with a baseball bat, or symbolic power as with the baton, wand, or sceptre.

Not exact matches

According to a former cabinet minister who spoke on condition of anonymity, the ministers acted as a symbolic «rubber stamp» — the cabinet has no actual approval power — and accepted the plans presented to them by the military.

«Anne Frank has great symbolic power, and this has led to a multitude of manifestations, such as the naming of streets, schools and parks, but also Halloween costumes and expressions of antisemitism in the world of football.

In his final two sentences, however, he recognizes the contemporary urgency that is intrinsic to his argument: «The hope of solidarity itself, and the recognition of its attendant burdens, still weighs upon us today It has remained a fragile aspiration, as much in need of condensation into symbolic forms of requisite density and imaginative power as it ever was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries of the Common Era.»

They provide the organism, or, as Santayana puts it, the psyche (this being the power of the organism to develop and protect its form in a manner responsive to the environment) with its consciousness (symbolic rather than literal of what and where it is, and of what it is up to, but play no real part in controlling its behavior.

Here then is a summary of the essential purport of the life and work of Jesus in a kind of symbolic shorthand: he undertook his mission, our informants are saying, as Messiah, as Son of God, as the Servant of the Lord, in the power of the divine Spirit — and this is «God's truth,» affirmed by the divine voice whose echo can be caught by the inward ear.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

Yet another church close by treats money as a principal adversary, waging a symbolic and sometimes ingenious guerrilla war against its power to dominate.

In the second part, «The Logic of Religious Violence,» Juergensmeyer depicts religious violence as a kind of theater that expresses its deadly symbolic power on a cosmic stage.

When ultimate power conceals itself in apparent powerlessness and when mystery «loses» itself in the particulars of history or in the uniqueness of a particular personality, there is already a ratification of the symbolic and the relative as the media of revelation.

As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.

As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.

The key to our human superiority is, scientists agree, in our symbolic power, as shown in all human languages.

These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.

God's power to heal bodies shatters our prejudice that healing prayer is only for the more emotional, less intelligent folks; that the Bible stories of healing are merely «symbolic» and «not really true» and that the way the world is (comfortable as it is for us) is God's will.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

Its need for sacraments of promise explains the symbolic power of the land of Israel or the city of Jerusalem as an emblem of hope.

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His current research focusses on the role of symbolic representations as projections of diplomatic power.

Aregbesola said though May 29, in 1999, was the date the military handed over power to civilian administration, opined that June 12 would remain symbolic in the political structure of Nigeria as it represents the day of reckoning and the realization of a truly democratic government that approximates the yearnings and aspirations of the people.

It was a symbolic declaration, but one that came too late for many straphangers whose daily commutes have become unreliable at best and, in some situations, dangerous as power outages have led to evacuations along the tracks.

Silver was the starting point and cornerstone of the project because it possessed a unique combination of protective benefits as well as beauty and symbolic power.

His mid-film encounter with a deranged dinosaur who's collecting a retinue of totemized sidekicks (birds and small mammals) he's assigned symbolic power speaks to the film's general conversation around myth as a means to contain chaos.

There's also some pretty impressive symbolic juxtapositions as Ferrara uses low angle shots to emphasize a power differential between two characters.

Writing in Vanity Fair, Peter Biskind later argued that «Midnight Cowboy» was groundbreaking in the context of cinema, «marking as it did the symbolic transfer of power from Old Hollywood to New.»

Giroux caricatures the traditional classroom as one where «students sit in rows staring at the back of each others» heads and at the teacher who faces them in symbolic, authoritarian fashion»; «events are governed by a rigid time schedule imposed by a system of bells and reinforced by cues from teachers»; we «glorify the teacher as the expert [and] dispenser of knowledge»; «social relationships... are based upon power relations inextricably linked to the teacher's allotment of grades»; and tracking «alienates students from schooling.»

Bartlett uses the symbolic power we associate with the sea, its sublimity, as a foundation on which to develop a series of paintings which reference Read More»

«We can trace this theme throughout the exhibition — a testimony to the power of the use of nontraditional symbolic and conceptual portraiture as a means to reclaim the representation of self and other from inherited formulas that may threaten to suppress rather than express what it means to a unique individual.»

«We can trace this theme throughout the exhibition — a testimony to the power of the use of non-traditional symbolic and conceptual portraiture as a means to reclaim the representation of self and other from inherited formulas that may threaten to suppress rather than express what it means to a unique individual.»

Hosted in a building of symbolic historical charge — a former 1928 Trade Fair Palace which in 1939 — 1941 served as an assembly point for Jews before their deportation to the concentration camp in Terezín — it works as a site - specific parable, a form of (public) speech, carrying a transgressive power of cathartic experience, but also a rhetoric of failure, paradox and resignation...

Powerful, culturally symbolic imagery which is recurring in Erizku's oeuvre, such as the Black Panther, the bust of Nefertiti, and Erizku's iconic hand and rose are combined with potent phrases in Chinese characters such as «Black Panther», «Black Power» and «Black Love», respectively.

With a penchant for non-heroic, «anti-art» materials such as spray foam and aluminum, and a keen eye for cultural objects bemired in symbolic notions of power, Bäckström's deeply tactile works create a rich interplay between association, meaning, and materials.

Her painting expands on these themes by negotiating the in uence of a number of artists such as Jim Shaw, Alice Neel, Walter Robinson, and Gerda Wegener.This notion of intimacy is further explored by the equal power she invests in symbolic, personal, and pop cultural images, bringing into question the viewer's relationship with emotion and artistic subject matter.

The exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists whose work looks to food, eating, feeding, and cooking as symbolic representations of exchanged emotion or power.

The paintings in Never Forever offer points of entry to consider architectures» ability to serve as a symbolic backdrop for unfolding political events and changing power structures.

These breaches in the construct of Soleimani's characters serves to expose the bodies of those in power to symbolic acts of violence as well as subvert their traditional displays of masculinity and authority; at the same time, it reveals the bodies of those that might suffer at the hands of men in power as they accrue wealth through brutal acts of exploitation against humanity and the earth.

SCAD presents «Imprint: Past as Prologue,» an exhibition by Masud Olufani (M.F.A., sculpture, 2013) that explores history, memory, community and the symbolic power of objects.

Women are no longer subjected to political violence but represented as the country's decision makers — revolutionary leaders and holy saints — all in control of their own symbolic power.

As such, the closure is symbolic of the broader woes of the nuclear power industry in the United States, which has been unable to build new reactors and is seeing the current reactors being shuttered, one by one.

The solar power industry also applauded the White House action as a symbolic sign of its commitment to renewable energy.

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.

We find that money is often symbolic of so many things: class, sex, power, competition, etc. and is frequently used as a proxy for fighting.