Sentences with word «synecdoche»

Further, Paul's reference to the sword in Romans 13.4 is a pointed synecdoche for executive power or government power more generally.

Moreover your assertion that God's promise of eternal life is unilateral and without any conditions on our part is an argument based on synecdoche.

It is possible to think about the beatified soul partly because (especially in the work of women mystics and Bonaventure, and in light of the practice of dismemberment of the saints for dispersion into reliquaries) «a new use of synecdoche throbs with enthusiasm for body and for all that to which body gives us access.

The idea of spiritual meaning expressed in style is deftly encapsulated in the first shot of «First Reformed,» a neat synecdoche for the whole film.

Given all this, what is an appropriate symbol / synecdoche around which people can rally?

He was God's synecdoche and God.

I mean, s3x is synecdoche / metaphor for the cycle of life and death and all it's grandeur and banality.

But it's a synecdoche for the movie's main theme: The cops are effective — up to a point.

The Congers Elementary School has again become the synecdoche for what is wrong in Clarkstown.

Framing the massive movements of peoples through the synecdoche of a love triangle is a start, for argument's sake, but even given that, how does one then go on to justify (on paper) his decision to cast as his romantic lead an unknown 14 - year old girl awkwardly named in life Q'orianka Kilcher, who's left unnamed in the film for the bulk of its duration?

Not even a full 60 minutes have passed in director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's 317 - minute Japanese ensemble drama Happy Hour when there's a scene that functions as a synecdoche for the entire film.

metaphor, symbol, irony, figurative language, literal language, simile, personification, metonymy, synecdoche

The synecdoche of using this part of the body to represent the whole, particularly in the case of sculptors, for whom the hands are so essential, is a simple yet effective trope, and one that is taken perhaps one step further, by the quintessential Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys (1921 - 86), with his empty Felt Suit (1970), suggesting, in its absence, just the essence of the artist.

By displacing these inconsequential objects from the landfill in which he found them, Dion creates a synecdoche for human history that points to the tawdry artifacts of contemporary life and the artificiality of the very earth beneath the populated landscape.

This is why the synecdoche of the little photograph was sufficient, superabundant even, densely informative, formative... and why I dared not pay the work any direct attention for 30 years.

De Monseignat skillfully draws the audience in with her playful approach, inviting her audience to accommodate themselves within her «bedroom,» which seemingly acts as a synecdoche for her juvenile years.

Writing in his catalogue notes, Maine seems to reinforce this view of process: «If the paintings are images, then they represent this process as a kind of synecdoche, like «wheels» implies «car.»

Image: William Cordova, «somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints (h.d.t.)(from the synecdoche suite)», 2014, courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co..

A trope that is easily defined verbally (examples include «all hands on deck» or «the meeting was full of suits»), synecdoche is more cerebral when applied to visual art.

Much of the work feels like a fragment of the real thing — a synecdoche, if you will — or like watching a movie trailer or hearing a few seconds of music and being asked to accept that as the work itself.

Einarsson deals in networks of surrogates and synecdoche; symbols of power and violence grow in complexity as they are considered against and alongside one another.

William Cordova somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints (h.d.t.)(from the synecdoche suite), 2014 8 1/2 x 12 inches, graphite, ink transfer, collage on reclaimed file folder courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co..

Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to present Indirect Representations, a group show exploring contemporary portraiture through the rhetorical conventions of synecdoche, metonymy, and metaphor.

The whole idea that the interface between science and politics is broken strikes me very much as a synecdoche of the spirit of the time when we were younger, the second half of the XX century.