The ideal sovereign understood that the body natural functioned as a symbol of the body politic.
For the Edwardses, French seems to function as a symbol of the class they don't belong to.
Beetles and Buddhas, scarabs, pentagrams and pale pink quartz -- any of these may function as a symbol of sincere religious belief.
And the royal family has always functioned as a symbol of national unity, where there are few obvious others (even Tintin is controversial these days).
They just care about the status war against their social enemies and the way each issue functions as a symbol in that great fight.
And later, as a graduate student at a public university, I began to appreciate that Bob Jones's policy functioned as a symbol of racism, and as such could offend and harm people who hadn't even attended the school.
It was an easy way to demonstrate anger: the statues functioned as a symbol of Soviet oppression, and Vladimir Putin's Russia is perceived as continuing the Soviet policy of domination of its neighbours.
When the Nutcracker is first transformed into a prince, he holds a turned-out position (tendu side) that functions as a symbol: Thanks to ballet, he will now be Marie's guide into worlds of fantasy and of pure form.
"Our finding that preschool-age children who cannot yet read have some understanding that written words represent specific words in a way that drawings do not indicates that young children's knowledge about the inner structure of writing - how it functions as a symbol - is more sophisticated than previously thought," said study co-author Dr Lori Markson.
The "erogenized body" refers to a " body of desire", which functions as a symbol endued with significance.
Class discussion focused on was that the virtual experience to allow reflection on the textual descriptions of the Temple, how the Temple functioned as a symbol in biblical literature, and how the literary accounts may have functioned as a virtual experience for ancient Jews living outside of Israel.
