Sentence examples for Symbolic narrative from inspiring English sources
The myth of creation is the symbolic narrative of the beginning of the world as understood by a particular community.
The martyrdom of Isobel Gowdie, for instance (a Scots Catholic girl killed during the Reformation) is not treated in terms of literal representation, but as a symbolic narrative.
Myth, a symbolic narrative, usually of unknown origin and at least partly traditional, that ostensibly relates actual events and that is especially associated with religious belief.
But Hollywood's addiction to normative whiteness looks particularly pathetic compared with the visual and symbolic narrative that we've all watched unspool over the Obama presidency.
In gems like this, Keret evinces what the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim called "the uses of enchantment," an ability to compel readers to experience their hidden terrors by means of symbolic narrative.
Mr. Weinstein understands that he has stumbled into a symbolic narrative, in which he plays the entrepreneurial vandal who lays waste the holy places, and he is at pains to point out that the story doesn't actually fit.
Where some architects conjure symbolic narratives or rely heavily on theory to shape and explain their work, Mr. Alsop paints -- huge colorful canvases that can be either explicitly architectural or totally abstract.
Scholars and clergy differ on whether the Nativity stories in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew are historical accounts or symbolic narratives of Christianity's beginnings.
Modern scholars are doubtful that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, seeing the biblical stories not as historical accounts but as symbolic narratives invented to present the birth as fulfillment of prophecy and imply a connection to the lineage of King David.
The core category, gendered trajectories into depression, describes men's and women's varying experiences through four symbolic narratives.
Allegory, a symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative.
