Sentence examples for symbolic characters from inspiring English sources

"They're symbolic characters".

Belarmino y Apolonio (1921; Belarmino and Apolonio) examines the age-old debate between faith and reason, utilizing symbolic characters and multiple narrative viewpoints, while Tigre Juan (1926; Tiger Juan) dissects traditional Spanish concepts of honour and matrimony.

A combination of morality play, circus, shoot-em-up action film and public exorcism, it involved an eclectic cast of symbolic characters, with the god of death -- the Buddhist Yama, the shamanist Erlik Khan -- in the starring role.

Clay gave it top honors and commended Pulphus' "colorful landscape of symbolic characters representing social injustice, the tragic events in Ferguson, Missouri and the lingering elements of inequality in modern American society" in a May statement. .

Hong is a storyteller, and her artwork, painted on canvas and sometimes wooden slabs, can be compared to a visual journal of secrets in which symbolic characters, be they human or animal, represent versions of herself or key moments from her past.

Levy stated that "all commercial objects have a symbolic character, and making a purchase involves an assessment implicit or explicit of this symbolism, to decide whether or not it fits" (Levy 1959, p. 117).

"Joker is a very symbolic character.

Meanwhile Colonial Williamsburg has been changing its symbolic character.

Instead, the missile war is taking on an increasingly symbolic character.

Once desired for its oil flow, now reduced to a trickle, the town has taken on symbolic character, almost a Jerusalem of Sudanese politics.

The effort and ingenuity devoted to doming rectangular buildings can be explained principally by the symbolic character of the form, since vaulting is a simpler alternative.