Sentences with phrase «symbolic significance in»

And while the fact that Dublin's «Millennium Spire» won't be up until 2003 may only be a bemusing footnote to future generations, the PR guys really need to come up with a new explanation for its symbolic significance in the here and now.

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:

The Passover Seder Meal This resource is about the foods and drink that are used at the Passover Seder meal and their symbolic significance in Judaism.

The moon has a rich symbolic significance in yoga mythology.

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.

Perhaps there is symbolic significance in the minister's being just a bit behind.

«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.

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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.

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).

One must understand the full significance of this presentness if one is to understand the symbolic function and the dependent and mediate reality of the I - It relation (Karl Heim has made Buber's distinction between the presentness of the l - Thou relation and the pastness of I - It the basis for his whole philosophy of dimensions and hence in turn of his theology.

Of further significance, however, are the changes in the overarching symbolic environment within which these activities are taking place and the meanings which this environment imposes on life's events.

If I can never adequately state the significance of my relationships with those whom I love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted by another and loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my relationship with God — a relationship that has been broken by my willfulness and sin.

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.

As Hunt himself pointed out, nearly every object in the picture is imbued with a symbolic significance.

The result of such widespread disenchantment has been that people now simply do not have the vocabulary, verbal or symbolic, to express their spiritual longings or to root their moral convictions in a worldview that sees significance and worth in human beings and human societies but also in the Universe.

If the «will of God» is understood as a symbolic way of saying «the way things are» (the nature of reality in an orderly, cause - and - effect universe), the profound significance of this step becomes clear.

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).

The primary problem with the way communion is practiced in churches today that believe the Lord's Supper is a symbolic memorial is that we have adopted the practices of churches which think it is much more than a symbol but have stripped away most of the mystical significance of the elements.

Additionally, most to some degree faced social pressure to marry, which reflects Andrew Cherlin's (2004) argument that despite the increase in cohabitation and «deinstitutionalization» of marriage, the symbolic significance of marriage remains high within the culture.»

Whilst the significance of getting councillors in the northern city centre councils can be overstated by commentators (when there is a Conservative presence in the surrounding urban areas), this is still very symbolic, and encouraging news for Conservatives in the North West.

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.

In my research, I have emphasized the symbolic and spiritual significance of technically nonessential substances, such as fat and eland blood, that were said to be added to the paint mixture, presumably as magical aids.

If that's not enough, the scene is further needlessly punctuated by a replay of the viral shower video, lest we «dummies» in the audience miss the symbolic significance of the blood.

The sixty plus works of art by nearly forty artists, additionally reflect international artistic responses to an US dominated ideology of car culture — either in its specificity as an object or in its symbolic significance — from Swiss - born Sylvie Fleury to Belgium's Wim Delvoye.

Cutler employs a vivid color palette to compose internal - landscapes / symbolic still lifes, exploring the cultural and personal significance of his identity as a black gay man in contemporary America.

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).

The personal significance of this material combined with the primordial qualities of steel and fire, produce a lingering source of strength and endurance in the work that not only speaks to the contemporary experience but also acknowledges a symbolic vocabulary of the past.

In popular representation, the works are understood as «priceless» because of their historical significance, while also inconceivably expensive as evidenced in public market sales; their destruction becomes a symbolic erasure of history, as well as an assertion of a new currency and world ordeIn popular representation, the works are understood as «priceless» because of their historical significance, while also inconceivably expensive as evidenced in public market sales; their destruction becomes a symbolic erasure of history, as well as an assertion of a new currency and world ordein public market sales; their destruction becomes a symbolic erasure of history, as well as an assertion of a new currency and world order.

In a curated selection of photographs spanning eight years, CHASM describes Thompson's self - portraits as «flamboyantly performative,» speaking to a wider audience while unraveling layers of symbolic significance with respect to personal identity, memory and landscape.

The use of gold alludes to religious iconography, but the symbolic significance referred to in the Golden Duck is contradicted by Vital in its installation.

What is the significance behind your symbolic use of the womb in relation to the human condition?

Beginning in 1997, Sui shifted towards an exploration of visual and symbolic images of political significance, most notably with the «Mao jacket.»

Nicolai Howalt embarks on an investigation of both the symbolic significance and healing properties of light in Light Break, founding his examination on theories of light therapy developed by nobel laureate Niels Finsen.

Some such program that hires oil workers to work in clean energy would of course also have a symbolic significance, too.

Not only did their take — that University endowments are just a drop in the bucket — ignore the symbolic significance of shunning an unethical industry.

Acknowledge the significance of the Sandplay therapist's training and presence as a human being in the symbolic change process of Jungian Sandplay

National attachment has also been investigated in terms of a symbolic affective attachment to the nation and its symbols and values [43], [44], implying that a degree of emotional significance is imparted to the bond that individuals form with their nation of origin.

Appreciate the significance of symbolic materials on the diagonals in Tray and how they often carry the essence of the client's issues and / or psychological strengths to undergo the journey