Sentences with phrase «with symbolic significance»

It's an effect that's both humorous and laden with symbolic significance.

Feasts are imbued with symbolic significance, such as when we celebrate someone's birthday or a religious holiday.

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

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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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Engaging with numerous scientific and formal topics such as symbolic systems, visual perception, and the structural significance of patterning, Auerbach's diverse output includes rainbow - hued trompe l'oeil canvases, hand - wrought glass helices, elegantly calligraphed text - based drawings, and (of course) books — from zines to technically advanced sculptural volumes to unique takes on the exhibition catalogue.

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.