Since the 1800s, dewy images of oranges, lemons and other fruits have been a lure for seekers of the state's postcard essence, symbols of fertile land, felicitous climate and the possibilities of pleasure.
Langer (1953b) explicitly includes dance as art into her system of the arts when she holds that all of the arts are in essence symbol-making endeavors.
Overseen by Mr. Cioffi, a well-regarded executive with more than 22 years of experience at Bear Stearns, the funds were in essence a symbol of the frenzy and greed that characterized the booming subprime mortgage market from 2003 through 2006.
The key insight was the Turing machine a simple theoretical construct that captured the essence of abstract symbol manipulation.
Is there an essence, spirit, or symbol of the former use that could play a role in urban redevelopment or revitalization?
"What you ask the state to do is, in essence, give credibility to a symbol that has been used as a symbol of brutality and death," she said to the Los Angeles Times.
(So did Barthes, who derived a lively thought from the artist's degradation of graphic symbols: "The essence of an object has something to do with the way it turns into trash").
It is the word symbol of the essence of that vibratory current which is throughout the matter-field of creation.
When Taymor directs, she begins with an "ideograph" — a symbol that conveys the essence of the piece.
When Taymor directs, she begins with an "ideograph"—a symbol that conveys the essence of the piece.
When access to digital computers became possible in the middle fifties, a few scientists instinctively recognized that a machine that could manipulate numbers could also manipulate symbols and that the manipulation of symbols could well be the essence of human thought.
