Sentence examples for symbolic view from inspiring English sources

His idea that works of art could contain a measure of truth in themselves an idea voiced more explicitly by Plotinus in the 3rd century ce gave added strength to the symbolic view.

While la Parisienne is shown, through the works of Renoir, Degas, Bonnard, Helleu and others, to be a more complicated and diverse woman - or range of women - than the accepted, symbolic view might have allowed, the exhibition nevertheless accepts, without question, the fundamental understanding that women were seen rather than seeing.

He developed the symbolic view of the Eucharist.

Hailey Gaiser takes a darker and more symbolic view.

His own view was close to Zwingli's symbolic view, but it was not identical.

Rather than holding a purely symbolic view, Calvin noted that with the participation of the Holy Spirit, faith was nourished and strengthened by the sacrament.

Symbolic scene?

In all her work she attempted to capture a symbolic, yet intimate view of her subjects.

"From a symbolic point of view, I'm very, very sad," Mr. Broomfield said.

The respect shown to cows by Hindus is symbolic of their view that all living things are sacred.

And the Vatican expert Antonio Socci, writing in the conservative newspaper Libero, said "something serious" was happening in Siena "from the spiritual and symbolic point of view".