Sentence examples for symbolic creatures from inspiring English sources

Exact(6)

They became symbolic creatures.

Self-consciousness is inescapable in symbolic creatures.

The artwork of both women "reflects this sort of transmutation of humanistic values into these, hmm, symbolic creatures," as Mr. Bookhardt put it, and "that all relates to the environment they live in.

"To the best of our knowledge, we human beings are most profoundly set off from the rest of Nature in being symbolic creatures" (p. 191).

We can do this because we are "symbolic" creatures, meaning that we mentally decompose the world around us into a vocabulary of discrete symbols, which we can combine and recombine in our minds to imagine alternate worlds.

We are able to accomplish this trick because we are symbolic creatures: we mentally decompose the world around us into a vocabulary of discrete symbols, which we can combine and recombine in our minds to envisage new possibilities and ask questions such as "what if?" As far as it is possible to ascertain, no other creature does that or has ever done it.

Similar(54)

Named for the Turul bird, a symbolic creature that figures in ancient Hungarian mythology, Turul sold "100% made in Hungary" T-shirts, belt buckles, flags, and posters featuring far-right symbols and maps of "greater Hungary" — with its pre-First World War borders, including parts of today's Romania and Slovakia.

Crow: Ted Hughes, Crow In 1970, Hughes's "life and songs" of the divine, demonic bird lifted to the heights a poetic career that always blended the symbolic role of creatures with an insistence on their separateness.

It is the closest approach to symbolic language of any creature apart from humans.

He added: "We are not only biological creatures, but social, symbolic and aesthetic ones as well.

These creatures are unarguably symbolic, and so, perhaps, is their positioning as a coda to the whole show: a pair of phoenixes rising from the ashes.

Show more...

Ludwig, your English writing platform

Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.

Student

Used by millions of students, scientific researchers, professional translators and editors from all over the world!

MitStanfordHarvardAustralian Nationa UniversityNanyangOxford

Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak quote

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak

CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com

Get started for free

Unlock your writing potential with Ludwig

Letters

Most frequent sentences: