The phrase
"symbolic significance" refers to the importance or meaning that something represents beyond its literal or obvious interpretation.
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Every culture associates colors with different ideas and emotions, but the correlation is obvious, colors effect behavior, are used
for symbolic significance and are utilized by everyone.
Because Question Time represents ordinary people holding the powerful to account, the decision to host the final showdown between the three main party leaders on the programme has
significant symbolic significance.
In addition to being highly visible over long distances by our species, red is also the color of blood, charging it with even
more symbolic significance.
A smarter man could unravel the vast network of the sexual
symbolic significance of del Toro pining for a sea creature procreating with a human woman but I'm happy to acknowledge del Toro's kinky side and embrace the fact that he's given his fetish cinematic form.
With a formal emphasis, these materials unfold multiple layers of
symbolic significance as they relate to African and African American history and culture, as well as Edwards» autobiography.
Moscow realizes that the gathering of the Council specifically in Istanbul has an
important symbolic significance for the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch, since six out of the seven Ecumenical Councils (with the exception of the Council of Ephesus) have taken place in Constantinople or its environs (Chalcedon is presently Kadiköy, a district of Istanbul, and Nicaea, modern Iznik, is within a short ride from the capital).
Both will be important additions on the pitch, where the duo produced fine performances in Saturday's 5 - 1 win over Everton, but they also
bear symbolic significance in the post-Alexis Sanchez era.
Few philosophers» lives can boast comic (or, for that matter, tragic) material comparable to Kierkegaard's aborted engagement to Regine Olsen, the bizarrely
exaggerated symbolic significance he attached to it, his firm expectation of death before the age of thirty - four on account of some unnamed sin of his father's, his intentional provocation of a feud with the satirical review The Corsair, or his splenetic quarrels with the Danish Lutheran church (and so on).
But he argues that Munro and Grosman have not fully proved that this was an actual feast rather than the remains of a communal meal without
much symbolic significance.
Of all the couples that walked the Oscars red carpet together on Sunday night, it's likely none had the
same symbolic significance as Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino.
A strong use of line has newly emerged: no longer limited to preparatory drawing, the lines here have a heft, spontaneity and
near symbolic significance.
If Bolduc's earlier work tended toward the decorative, the paintings he began making in the 1980s and continued through the 1990s took on a
deeper symbolic significance, reflecting both the influence of his travels and his voracious reading (his close friend Michael Ondaatje once remarked that Bolduc was the best - read person he had ever met).
Take Over makes audible the close relationship of these two political anthems and mines the musical kinship for traces of this
changing symbolic significance.
Twombly invites our contemplation of the peony's
symbolic significance in East Asia by repeatedly scrawling lines from a Takari Kikaku poem about Kusunoki, a warrior hero in Japan:
There won't be a single bullet that cures all areas of disadvantage faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, but real constitutional reform would have
important symbolic significance to ensure that our foundational document removes the racist elements that still pervade our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities.
«It has
a symbolic significance in that you could say from a political perspective, it indicates that Canada welcomes Chinese investment,» says Lawrence Herman, trade law expert at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP.
Of
symbolic significance, the negotiations were wrapped up in Tokyo, underscoring Japan's leadership, and the announcement came exactly one year after the US withdrawal.
For some, it can be a wonderful ritual, full of
symbolic significance.
In these studies Buber leads us on a narrow ridge between the traditionalist's insistence on the literal truth of the biblical narrative and the modern critic's tendency to regard this narrative as of merely literary or
symbolic significance.
It must be distinguished from allegory in which every detail of the story has
symbolic significance.
Being clean is not simply a physical good; acts of purification have
a symbolic significance, too — as many religious rites testify.
The symbolic significance of John's baptism was plain, the waters of the Jordan had been the gateway to the promised land — both for the people of the Exodus journeys and for those who had returned from the Babylonian Exile.
To make this clear, future posts will look at some of the historical meaning and Scriptural passages which indicate
the symbolic significance of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and what they would have meant in the days of Jesus and early church.
2:8 f.), even
the symbolic significance of plentiful food (Eccles.
The possible reasons for his coming at night include: the merit attributed to studying the law at night;
the symbolic significance of darkness in this gospel, and the fear of the hostility of some religious leaders toward those who confess faith in Jesus (cf. 12:41; 9:22).
I wonder about
the symbolic significance of such a seamless and colorful robe.
The symbolic significance of the Army's murder of the country's leading academic and religious figures can not be overstated: the deaths signal that, once again, no one is safe from Army and death squad violence... The Bush Administration has taken the position that the Jesuit murders were a dramatic departure from Salvadoran army policy, and represent an opportunity for President Cristiani to demonstrate that the army is not above the law.
Paul's imprisonment has great
symbolic significance.
Whichever worldview you hold, it is clear that what is going on behind the slogan of «marriage equality» is a substitution: An institution fraught with legal, cultural, and
symbolic significance would be replaced by a de-sexed legal category, thus undermining the foundation of individuals and of the family.
There are no rules as to which color variations work best, but this useful infographic on How Color Affects Your Baby will help explain how the different shades can affect your baby's mood,
the symbolic significance of each color, and how to apply the various shades throughout your nursery.
The symbolic significance of Gower going Conservative is hard to overstate.
FT leader - writers (#) criticises Osborne's decision to highlight Britain's AAA rating: «While the hallmark of a triple A rating has
symbolic significance, George Osborne is guilty of elevating it far out of proportion.
It is common political wisdom that endorsements matter little beyond
their symbolic significance, unless the endorser possesses a sophisticated field operation or powerful fundraising apparatus.
«They may therefore have been of ritual or
symbolic significance.»
Aside from
the symbolic significance of 400ppm, it is worth reflecting on the implications of being able to successfully predict its passing.