Sentence examples for symbolic entity from inspiring English sources

"Throwing all your resources at a symbolic entity signals to the rest of the world that you are a fanatic".

The flower as a symbolic entity intrigued her – its feminine associations of beauty, as well as its visual and tactile qualities.

Mr. Valdes's Valmont, who has the look of a Kabuki actor playing Mephistopheles, tends to travel in a special red spotlight and would seem to be a fixed symbolic entity.

The 'three bodies' approach views the body as a physical and symbolic entity that is both naturally and culturally constituted [ 28].

In its broad sense, 'suggestion' consists in a signing relationship as a matter of convention, custom, or biology between things or events in the world which may be construed as signs (in the case of conventional signs, these may be linguistic or symbolic entities) and what those things or events signify.

Are mental representations of word meaning abstract, symbolic entities, or do perceptual and motoric representations play a critical role in 'grounding' word meaning in representations of the external objects and events that words denote?

As long as the Crown is part of our constitution, the Royals are part of this country, mainly as a symbolic political entity but also as a reminder that Australia is a fundamentally British society.

The present work differs from classical approaches insofar that symbolic multi modal entities are matched, and reconstructed, rather than points.

Although modern science is "iconoclastic", as Gaston Bachelard phrases it (i.e. bent on replacing living entities by symbolic data: e.g. biochemical and mathematical symbols and codes), scientists are at the same time prolific producers of metaphoric images themselves.

The Palestinians are planning to ask the United Nations General Assembly to vote on upgrading its status from non-member entity on the symbolic date of November 29.

There was also the real and symbolic role of the Eva Perón Foundation a private entity run by Perón's wife funded through contributions from the private and public entities, and which distributed considerable amounts of social assistance (see Stawski 2005).