I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem.
Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.
Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.
When you cross a bridge, try to touch it with your hand! That will be a symbolic gratitude for the good service it gives to us!
You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind it would be desirable to apply symbolic processes to moral argument, is another question.
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.
There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan. Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder.
Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color worn, every clothing detail. Hence, costumes provide an aesthetic objectification that helps to tell the character's story.
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i. e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.
When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
Let's go to Russia. She [Hillary Clinton] went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them that stupid symbolic reset button.