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    symbolism


    1. "You think the symbolism is that obvious?"


    2. He could guess plenty of techs that had the skills to get the drop on him, but not one who would use the religious symbolism


    3. As about the symbolism of the dream: He is hungry for sex, I am dead for sex


    4. He wondered what the symbolism would be if he was to climb the rope? God would probably think he was so arrogant he intended to climb up and take over


    5. He stopped at three, the next step was Barad-dur was it not? He of all people wouldn't want that symbolism


    6. This was another excuse for symbolism that was telling me that they were watching over me and that I would be fine


    7. They talked in riddles and symbolism and everything meant something


    8. been chosen is interesting because of the symbolism


    9. She hoped he understood the symbolism


    10. The symbolism was that it would be destroyed by asteroid impact

    11. The theological symbolism is more important to him than all the science combined


    12. Consider the symbolism of the item and how you feel about it in your dream


    13. Consider the symbolism of what you see and how you felt during the field trip


    14. Consider the symbolism of other elements in the dream to find out what is it that you really hate


    15. Consider also the theme and name of the magazine and additional symbolism


    16. Consider the symbolism or significance of the rare object or event


    17. Consider the symbolism of the body area where the sores are located


    18. (These were portrayed in the Bible as metaphors and symbolism that demanded exacting skills of interpretation)


    19. If we look at the symbolism, it is clearly another foreshadowing the future of which this would be a model


    20. Back in his mind he remembered Crowleys symbolism

    21. This is a look at how the American military influenced American Indians and how, in turn, Natives influenced US military tactics, symbolism, and basic training


    22. If that turns out to be an accurate account, why would he have been insistent upon its inclusion? Is it possible that Revelation, being so full of symbolism and metaphoric references seemed rather similar to the Mysteries of the Mythrian belief system, and would have been of interest to newly recruited acolytes from paganism?


    23. And there was the symbolism of the “Bowls


    24. “The name of a many-sided movement in the 1st and 2nd centuries of the Christian era which combined the mythology and symbolism of several pagan religions with the teachings of Christ…had two characteristic features: a metaphysical dualism of matter and spirit whose origins are to be found in the physical dualism of darkness and light in the Parsic (or Persian) religion; and a doctrine of redemption, by which those who devote themselves to gnosis, or a higher knowledge, may proceed from the former to the latter realm…Much of Gnostic literature was falsely ascribed to such authors as the disciples of Jesus, Jewish prophets, heroes of antiquity, or imaginary personages…With the decline of the pagan religions around the time of Christ, a conscious movement to syncretize (attempt to smoothly unite) all religions was in progress…In the early years of Christianity, only loose boundaries were formed between the Church and contemporary cults; the syncretic movement did not exclude the new faith, nor did Christianity fail to absorb elements of foreign beliefs


    25. He recognized the symbolism of pride that must underwrite all such


    26. It was not necessarily for its symbolism, only those who attempted to wreak havoc on it prior to 9/11 attempted so for its seeming power


    27. Some were based on actual events while others were simply handed down word of mouth as lessons for those who needed the symbolism


    28. But at least when Ganesh had to do this, he appreciated its symbolism


    29. Caribbean culture, I shouldn't leave out the influences of art and symbolism as vital


    30. “This painting is more abstract and requires one to look beyond the complex symbolism in order to decipher the true meaning of it,” he added and I resisted rolling my eyes

    31. For Roger, his four-month romance with Lucille had an inescapable symbolism of destiny


    32. “I’ve heard the Bible is complicated, a book of symbolism


    33. If anyone tries to stop us, he thought, I think I’ll be ready to use one of these! He hefted the spear, appreciating its symbolism


    34. *This is remarkably fascinating symbolism


    35. His intellect knew it was over-optimism, but the symbolism of escape was sufficient for his emotions


    36. at the point where we have to either accept or reject the symbolism of the


    37. religious symbolism of the paintings they were paid for (in each case, they insisted on their own


    38. It is associated with the moon too which causes its symbolism to lean towards femininity


    39. In Christian symbolism the Ascension and the Descent of the Holy Ghost


    40. which is sometimes in the symbolism named His consort

    41. The symbolism of your records was intended for the backward ages of the world's childlike thought


    42. But the number nine, with its symbolism of dissolution hovered


    43. This, though she did not know it, was art in its highest form the free, uncramped artistic expression of a highly esthetic race, unhampered by conventional symbolism


    44. embedded with symbolism and designed to question what is real and what the mírror


    45. Various theories and interpretations of the symbolism surrounding eating disorders


    46. 5 Notwithstanding the Master's effort thus to establish this new sacrament of the remembrance, those who followed after him in the intervening centuries saw to it that his express desire was effectively thwarted in that his simple spiritual symbolism of that last night in the flesh has been reduced to precise interpretations and subjected to the almost mathematical precision of a set formula


    47. 6 This supper of remembrance, when it is partaken of by those who are Son-believing and God-knowing, does not need to have associated with its symbolism any of man's puerile misinterpretations regarding the meaning of the divine presence, for upon all such occasions the Master is really present


    48. In the ancient iron-bound volumes which speak of the Heart in their cryptic symbolism, it is also told of a creature of darkness left by the ancient priest to guard it


    49. The hopelessness of the situation caved in on her as she raised an arm to protect her face, a gesture of symbolism over substance


    50. He did not believe in symbolism, but the meaning of this dream was smacking him in the face











































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    Synonyms for "symbolism"

    symbolisation symbolism symbolization

    "symbolism" definitions

    a system of symbols and symbolic representations


    the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning


    an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images