Sentences with phrase «symbolise american»

The bells symbolise American war trophies following the Balangiga massacre of troops and civilians during the Philippine - American War in 1901.

(36) But however personal the film, Santa Sangre still bears a smattering of political critique, whether in the American stars - and - stripes splashed around the gringo circus, the emblematic eagle symbolising American currency instead of Mexican national identity (as on the Mexican flag), starving slum dwellers feeding off the waste (a dead elephant symbolising Christ) of the gringo circus, the syncretic Santa Sangre church being destroyed by Catholic officials and greedy developers, etc..

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The election of Obama and the Democratic Party in Congress, for many observers, represented and symbolised the death of American conservatism and a reorientation of America's public ideology towards progressive and liberal values.

But worse than the clear Manicheism of Rules of Engagement, the stark polarities of good and evil in the American characters, is the portrait of those not American, those not representative of the American ideal symbolised by Hodges and Childers.

As he commented, «if you've ever had anonymous sex in a park or even in a bathhouse, basically it is like having sex with a zombie, and not necessarily in a bad way... having sex with them frees you from the personal and emotional restraints of normal sexual behaviour».65 American scholar Shaka McGlotten echoes this sentiment when he suggests that the «collective zombification» of «contemporary queer sociality» as represented in LaBruce's zombie films, possesses a creativity and «openness» from which «enlivening modes of agency» can be at the very «least» imagined if not cultivated.66 In symbolising the «return of the repressed» LaBruce's zombies evoke the idealised polymorphous body of sexual liberation.

The lonely, desolate American landscape encompassing the paintings» subjects serves as an exploration of nature's sacredness and a reflection of the human soul, symbolising all things powerful, fragile, and eternal.

The transmigration of the human soul (principally Mailer's own) is symbolised by three iconic American cars: a 1967 Chrysler Imperial, a 1979 Pontiac Firebird, and a 2001Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor.