Sentences with phrase «symbolic role»

Finally, while I've made this point many times, I'll make it again: For the past quarter - century, schooling has played a significant symbolic role in presidential contests.

The minister's symbolic role makes him a natural supportive counselor.

So some archaeologists have questioned whether these earlier ornaments played the same symbolic roles as the later ones, or even whether they were made by humans at all.

Hodder is unimpressed: he allows only that women at Çatalhöyük had «a powerful symbolic role.»

The Lenten fast assumed a largely symbolic role, involving abstention from certain types of food only.

Despite being a relatively small part of the school sector (about 7 per cent of pupils), private schools have an important symbolic role in UK society, with the perception that there is much social and economic advantage to be had from a private education.

A uniquely charged - color exploration comes into play within Ko's more formal language where pattern and rhythm take a more symbolic role.

These contracts recognize that contract language has a strong symbolic role to play rather than merely a functional, utilitarian role.

But for the many who come suffering from either weak or punitive consciences his symbolic role provides a tremendous counseling advantage.

Because of his symbolic role as a religious authority figure, the minister naturally attracts a circle of dependent persons who gain strength by identifying with him and with the group which he leads.

This symbolic role reversal recalls the anti-Japanese paranoia of the»70s and»80s, the period of Anderson's childhood, when American industrial workers feared being replaced by superior Japanese technology and organization.

ALEX ISRAEL — Uniforms play a symbolic role in Fireworks, no?

Also known as Deadly Nightshade, this amongst other botanical elements, symbols and body parts literally fuses a symbolic role to his botanical imagery and transforms the object into an exotic hybrid.

The German pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale is focused on the symbolic role of architecture and its relationship with national identity

A Well - Fashioned Image drew on the Smart Museum's collection and a number of loaned works to investigate the symbolic role played by dress in European art from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century.

Many artists today routinely portray themselves in fictional, symbolic roles and speak of themselves as performers.

Chris Evans» work often evolves through conversation with people from diverse walks of life, selected in relation to their public life or symbolic role.

Many of these processes play a symbolic role not only within these specific sculptures but in your artistic practice at large.

The following examples, targeting the Whitney Museum of American Art across the 1960s and»70s for its symbolic role as a «home» for American artists, provide a starting point to consider the ways in which activists today can effect meaningful changes.

Performative dimension of some of her projects try to accent the symbolic role of the body politics in the economic and power system.

Although the artists on the MOCA board are not expected to pay annual dues like other trustees, they serve more than a symbolic role.

The monarch's Oath of Accession includes a promise to «maintain and preserve the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Government,» meaning that religious plurality is also built into this symbolic role given his... [more]