Sentences with phrase «symbolic significance of»

It was concluded that the symbolic significance of the body metaphor was unknown.

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

A reference to magic carpet narratives as well as the blankets that Illegal street vendors use to quickly pack and transport their wares to safety, Flying Carpets perfectly fulfills the show's curatorial desire to link the symbolic significance of pattern with its aesthetic tradition.

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.

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.

Aside from the symbolic significance of 400ppm, it is worth reflecting on the implications of being able to successfully predict its passing.

The symbolic significance of Gower going Conservative is hard to overstate.

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.»

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.

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 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.

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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).

«The wearing of the temple garment bears great symbolic significance and represents a continuing commitment.

We learn from a close reading of the text about the formal conditions for aesthetic enjoyment and symbolic significance.

For some, it can be a wonderful ritual, full of symbolic significance.

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).

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.

The meeting, which issued a «Commitment to Global Peace», was, therefore, of great symbolic significance.

Being clean is not simply a physical good; acts of purification have a symbolic significance, too — as many religious rites testify.

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 remainder of this book will offer various ways to detect the symbolic and idiomatic discourse of a congregation and to probe its significance to the church members who convey it.

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.

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.

If this is done, nothing remains of the symbolic and thus ethical significance of cohumanity.

The season of new beginnings and new life, its symbolic and sentimental significance is important to consider when it comes to shopping for and welcoming a new baby.

Firstly, it points to the significance of citizenship's symbolic value.

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.

The significance of removing barriers to legitimate trade and opening up scientific exchange between the West and former communist countries will go far beyond the symbolic importance of joyful Germans swinging sledgehammers at the Berlin Wall.

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.

Those who want a turtle ink should be aware of all the symbolic significances to be sure while choosing the design.

I want to be there for the reopening of the U.S. Embassy, this end - of - history moment, however symbolic its significance.

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.

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.

The exhibition's chronological installation brings to light intriguing parallels between these three time periods, revealing dynamic through - threads within the artistic depiction of identity from 1912 to the present, such as the turn to language, symbolic attributes, and the metaphorical significance of color and form.

De Jong's choice of materials holds symbolic significance, for the insulation itself is a petroleum product.

The exhibition's chronological installation reveals intriguing parallels between these three time periods, revealing dynamic through - threads within the artistic depiction of identity from 1912 to the present, such as the turn to language, symbolic attributes, and the metaphorical significance of color and form.

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).

Each of the cards can be described as an archetype, a symbolic figure or situation of great significance that represents our journey starting with the innocence (The Fool) and ends with complete knowledge (The Universe).

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 order.

Donald Judd always intended his slick geometric shapes to emphasis the purity of the objects themselves, as opposed to any symbolic significance they might possess.

His work contains strong symbolic elements associated with the very beginnings of art where shapes and signs carried great significance.