Architecture is also used to promote political views, culture, or control, by conveying symbolic messages of power, nationalism, liberation, cooperation, justice, or other political themes or notions (Wren c1670s).
This is how the criminals communicate their message of power, defiance and control.
Something used by the police to reinforce its power here carries a stark message of power misused.
Then there's "the message of power and where it's delivered," as Reichman puts it.
My '90s cohorts and I were surrounded by messages of "Girl Power!" and crime-stopping female cartoon characters.
Alice Greenwald, director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, told HuffPost in an email that the pope's "messages of the power of love and peace over hate and violence echo the very principles that inspired the commitment to remember and rebuild".
The message "ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE" was lit in yellow LEDs on a sign mounted on a building, the words stark against grey slabs.
The message "ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE" was lit in yellow LED lights on a sign mounted on a building, the words stark against gray slabs.
The induction of fear among their victims sends out a strong message of control, power, might and superiority, thus making it easier for the aggressor to impose his or her will.
Shortly after Henry L. Stimson became secretary of war in 1940, he made clear his full support for the Army's secret work to decode the messages of foreign powers, Japan in particular.
The episode featured the show's fictional glee club director Will Schuester, portrayed by actor Matthew Morrison, assigning the students in the club to sing Madonna songs because the girls were being subjected to sexist treatment by the boys; he hoped the entire glee club would learn from the messages of girl-power and equality in such Madonna songs as "Express Yourself".
