Sentence examples for symbolic form from inspiring English sources

Harvey Gross in Sound and Form in Modern Poetry (1964) saw rhythmic structure as a symbolic form, signifying ways of experiencing organic processes and the phenomena of nature.

It seems likely, however, that the Goethean 'idea' of 'Urpflanze' lends itself to represention in symbolic form; the one stands for the other – the symbol for the idea.

They can be treated as symbols and many properties of the system can be calculated in symbolic form.

Varieties of symbolic form were numerous.

Censure is a purely symbolic form of punishment.

The association of plants, of gardens, with numbers assumed a curiously intense, symbolic form for me.

They deprive the design of its integrity and sharply curtail its effectiveness as symbolic form.

"It was an important symbolic form of protest at the time.

The gesture of blessing may imitate a symbolic form, such as that of the cross in Christianity.

The Buddha is depicted throughout in symbolic form, by a wheel, an empty throne, or a pair of footprints.

Religion provided truth in a symbolic form to nonphilosophers, who were not able to apprehend it in its purer forms.