Sentences with phrase «which symbolic moments»

Together, these works examine the conditions in which symbolic moments enter history, how these circumstances evolve over time, and how memory and history compete for relevance in the present.

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When God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, it was not just to see if Abraham was faithful enough to follow his commandment, it was also symbolic of the sacrifice God himself would make in sacrifice his beloved and begotten son, but unlike Abraham who was spared at the last moment from carrying through with the sacrifice of his son, God the father actually carried through with the sacrifice and although it wasn't permanent it still did not mean that there was no anguish, it doesn't matter how brief it was, if it was enough for divine and eternal beings to have to go through such heartache, all of which for our lowly sakes, in my view that is quite significant and I believe that such suffering is actually beyond mine or anyone else's comprehension.

It is important to see that no individual or community comes to the moment in which the event and meaning are fused in witness without some existing symbolic tradition with which to express the meaning of this fusion.

This process of coming back to your physical balance center with the spine is the symbolic representation of bringing your self back to the present moment in which lay your real work and pleasure of discovering a new manifestation of your eternal soul.

Things are soon dire — which is Jolie's cue throughout the film to move in on Louis's face as he recalls symbolic moments in his life.

With Lifeforce, Hooper parodies the sexual panic that informs the classic vampire tale, which is often famously preoccupied with the fear that giving in to what truly turns you on could upset your carefully governed symbiosis with the rest of society — a subtext that Hooper immediately elevates to text with a series of opening moments that follow Tom's crew as they enter a collection of alien chambers that must surely constitute some of the most vaginally symbolic imagery in all of American cinema.

Locke describes seeing the decay of these beautiful houses, which he once dreamed of living in, as seeing his childhood fall apart — an emotional and symbolic moment.