How To Use Symbolic In A Sentence

The ceremony has great symbolic significance.
The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.
Smith who was against the League and Jones who was against Article X, and Brown who was against Mr. Wilson and all his works, each for his own reason, all in the name of more or less the same symbolic phrase, register a vote _against_ the Democrats by voting for the Public Opinion
Tenements, rookeries, and cheap rooming districts exercised a huge symbolic power over the public imagination as centres of vice, squalor, drunkenness, traffic in sex and stolen goods, and general depravity.
She contrasts materials, symbolic objects and images in a way that begins to reveal hidden emotions and aspects of identity.

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Even Lord of the Flies - which I love as a metaphor for many, many things, like the savagery of humanity - treats the children more as symbolic figures.
By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
The major difference is that in Shakespeare the symbolic opposition between the world of sober morality and that of holiday freedom is normally made internal to the play.
These serve as billboards for symbolic displays.
Conversely the lighting of a candle may be symbolically significant if it denotes bringing of light, that is, relief from suffering or enlightenment.
The President's visit is loaded with symbolic significance.
And there are symbolic margins along which men get a worse deal than 100 years ago - modern males are probably more afraid to make sexist remarks within earshot of their wives. Are Husbands Really Like Potatoes?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It is for logistical rather than symbolic reasons that we are meeting at Old Albanian rugby club in Hertfordshire rather than Twickenham, but it allows Steele to make the point that he hopes to nurture the grassroots as well as the elite game, especially the enthusiastic volunteers that sustain it. England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
This symbolic geography, of course, typifies the upper division course in any discipline, where the field of study is the central topic.
The protest was a symbolic gesture of anger at official policy.
It was before the assembled brethren of the Lodge that he exchanged symbolic embraces with Franklin.
Losing the triple-A badge would be largely symbolic. Times, Sunday Times
Fueled by supremacist and puritan theological creeds their symbolic acts of power become uncompromisingly fanatic and violent.
While his death is statistically insignificant, symbolically it is crucial. Times, Sunday Times
A man and a woman in red ponchos bullwhipped the politician's effigy, then symbolically buried it. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
But more significant, he adds, is that the royal family is being required to cement the political and symbolic unity of a United Kingdom when that unity is under unprecedented strain.
Today some of the motions of the salute have been omitted; the ‘Recover’ is, however, still symbolic of kissing a Cross.
In symbolic terms, a national currency is felt by some to be part of the very idea of nationhood.
Ancient sources alluded to this element of frigidity by categorising the sign as ‘slightly barren’ in matters of fertility, and drawing pre-pubescent youth or sexless beings into its symbolic expression.
Is it a symbolic image of Ahura Mazda, the Zoroastrian name for the One God, the "Wise Lord?
As Hewitt has suggested, feminist utopianism, like symbolic interactionism, seeks to create new conceptual spaces in which radically different ways of being can be imagined and in which different distributions of power, including sexual power, can be conceived (Contemporary 17-21). Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies
They feel this is symbolic of the problems we face in the nation.
But as well as the bread and butter issues, there is a significant symbolic loss for republicans.
A hard link is a directory entry that points to an inode, while a soft link or symbolic link is a directory entry that points to an inode that provides the name of another directory entry.
But how are we to interpret the symbolism of other cultures; how can we crack their symbolic codes?
Irigaray wonders why law and community have to be founded on violence as in Freud's founding of culture on parricide in Totem and Taboo and symbolic sacrifice as in Girard's Violence and the Sacred: ‘Why did speech fail?’
The extraordinary symbolic multivalence of food and eating extends much further, so that food has probably always been charged with questions of moral significance.
The package is designed to solve, through symbolic manipulation, problems in differential calculus.
Furthermore, I feel it is perfectly legitimate, in the interests of creating a good drama, to telescope events or create symbolic scenes.
No one is urged to dwell on the fact that the day's fireworks displays are symbolic of an armed revolution against tyranny and colonialism.
But their peoples attached enormous symbolic importance to their presence. Times, Sunday Times
Social behaviourism embraces a variety of approaches including symbolic interactionism and social action theory. On Social Behaviorism
Whether this story is true or not, it holds a considerable symbolic weight. The Crossing-Place
One wondered what symbolic gesture would please him. Times, Sunday Times
It creates two symbolic links at /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom0, both of which point at /dev/hdc. Again, no NAME assignment was specified, so the default kernel name (hdc) is used.
The ease of using Mathematica is the result of 20 years of careful, integrated design and implementation of things like symbolics, numerics, graphics, and dynamic behavior. Wolfram Blog : Always the Right Time for Mathematica…
From Wikipedia: On the south end of the memorial is a field of symbolic bronze and stone chairs — one for each person lost, arranged according to what floor of the building they were on. In memory of those lost 15 years ago. « Biodork
In all of these cases it is of course symbolic, a crie de cœur — and in the case of the Swiss, the only course of action which was allowed to them under the law. It’s not just the Swiss — all Europe is ready to revolt
Symbolically, the sales and marketing departments are located in Ludwigsburg on the opposite side of Stuttgart from the production organization. Lean Thinking
It's also extensible, with packages developed by users for speech processing, optimization, symbolic computation, and others.
Furthermore, it is perceived to have an educative and symbolic function as well as a practical one.
While these catchphrases have been used and abused to the point of becoming banal, they are both historically accurate as well as symbolic of the attitudes that made the Apollo program in general a success.
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. - Norman Thomas.
The religious habit had lost its symbolic value; it no longer conveyed the meaning it was intended to convey.
A more accessible story, then, is one where these structural features are clearly defined -- whether that means unorthodox but simple or deeply conventionalised as in the extreme case of symbolic formulation. The Aesthetics of Fat
As we enter Whole Foods, symbols—or what advertisers call "symbolics"—of freshness overwhelm us. Selling Illusions of Cleanliness
The Channel Tunnel has enormous symbolic significance for a united Europe.
Between screens and building are long thin pools, symbolic of the three seas that surround Anatolia.
Most of the prehistoric monuments that have come down to us served ritual or symbolic purposes, rather than utilitarian ones. Times, Sunday Times
You are only slowing down your own growth rate through symbolic, righteous and trendy protest.
Bells pealed across Monaco yesterday as the principality praised Prince Albert II's rise to the throne and bid a final symbolic farewell to his late father Rainier III.
This tale gives symbolic expression to these inner experiences directly linked to the mother.
A lot of Latin-American officials are stressing the symbolic importance of the trip.
In some sceptical quarters of England's northeast this building was symbolic of a waste of money that could otherwise have been spent on hospitals.
However, the territories gained were significant only in a symbolic way.
But the secret and symbolical hint was the harmonical nature of the soul; which, delivered from the body, went again to enjoy the primitive harmony of heaven, from whence it first descended; which, according to its progress traced by antiquity, came down by Cancer, and ascended by Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
As a child of the Cold War, for me the Berlin Wall was the symbolic and real dividing line between them and us... the free and the not free... hope and fear. John Milewski: The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, or Something Completely Different?
The symbolic and concrete evidence of these new patterns of consumption were the diamond-studded stickpins, gold pocketwatches, and hard cash pedestrians conspicuously paraded while traversing the streets.
The protest was a symbolic gesture of anger at official policy.
Certainly, spices added flavour interest to a dish, but their fascination resided primarily in their symbolic value.
One way to illustrate such a difference is to characterize different relationships between the Symbolic and the Imaginary.
But the clashes between mutants of varying capabilities make for excellent fight scenes, the climactic one occurring, both photogenically and symbolically, atop the Statue of Liberty.
A low level programming language that permits the programmer to use mnemonics or symbolic codes for function codes.
In the nighttime version, by contrast, violent white lines cross the image in all directions, obfuscating a washed-out bed of flowers reduced to a symbolic recollection of its previous likeness.
Moreover, all the results in symbolic form can provide theoretical guidance for the circuit design and the analysis of nonlinear stability.
The clock in the painting is a symbolic representation of the passage of time.
After an hour of singing, sloganeering and speeches on everything from Palestine to Cuba, the protest has made its symbolic statement and it's time to go home.
On the altar wall, itself, the symbolic right and left are evident in the frescoes of the bottom register.
Clinton is the symbolic remainderman of the age of inspiration: admired for his professional political skills, but hardly viewed as a visionary figure. Forget The Angry Voter. The Hacks Are Back.
The freedom of much animal behaviour from physically specifiable constraints implies that many animals must have inner representations and symbolic language.
In Aaronovitch's telling, events in the Balkans become purely symbolic.
The thought remains imminent - just below perception, and bubbles up in strangely symbolic dreams and eruptions of irrationality in your everyday life like cryptic, confusing posts on a weblog.
The national library has always carried huge symbolic weight as a measure of attitudes towards literature and learning. Times, Sunday Times
I doubt Ms Rowling read Ginzburg before inventing Harry Potter, so we must be looking at a folk memory re-emerging periodically along highly structured symbolic axes.
Many of the most powerful symbolic gestures have taken place on the field of play. Times, Sunday Times
In mathematics, Newton was the first to develop a full range of algorithms for symbolically determining what we now call integrals and derivatives, but he subsequently became fundamentally opposed to the idea, championed by Leibniz, of transforming mathematics into a discipline grounded in symbol manipulation. Isaac Newton
They can be seen as cosmic instruments, symbolic of manifesting the vibration of each of the planets to bring balance from the macrocosm to us as the microcosm.
His most characteristic works were figures or groups of a historical, literary, allegorical, or symbolic nature.
There was a vogue for bidets in California some years ago but he thinks they are primarily symbolic as jacuzzis have become.
Like all the scenery he made for Graham, and probably for his other choreographic projects, it was symbolic, multivalent.
If this means risking arrest for nonviolent symbolic actions of peaceful civil resistance and then enduring a time of incarceration then this must be done for the sake of the higher laws of justice and the leadings of our individual consciences. Convicted Criminal Considers the Cause, the Crime, and the Court
Since ‘abjection is coextensive with the Symbolic Order,’ any representation of that order can be scrutinized for its hidden presence.
In view of the surprise, laughter, and criticism of Europe, the Emperor modified his demand for the "kotow" to its symbolic performance by three deep bows. William of Germany
the attacks of Armata Corsa are aimed at symbolic targets of colonialism in Corsica
Its second function was as a placeholder, demonstrating the symbolic value of what we call the arts, rather than their full impact. A grand display
The interrelationship between the characters too, echoes the constellation of the German Enlightenment dramas of G. E. Lessing and Friedrich Schiller, complete with a symbolic father/son conflict and various misalliances.
No such distinction exists in fetishism, where object and spirit are one and the same, fused in an unmediated anti-symbolic relationship.
In other words, a technological breakthrough supposedly ushered in new symbolic meanings.
By the use of mathematic mechanized method and computer symbolic manipulating technique this paper carried out a symbolic solution on the synthetic problems of rigid body guided four bar linkages.
The reproducible symbolic visual image became a mode of defining a social area of credit or of power.
Localized wage bargaining was symbolic of the decentralization of decision-making in general, a process involving a profound change in managerial culture.
We can recognize a logic of the unconscious only through its representation in the symbolic order, through the effect of signification.
The characterisation of magic as a semiotic skill has, in fact, resulted in a back-reading whereby it becomes symbolic of semiotic skill itself -- a metonym of the power of language, of consciousness, of "spirit". Archive 2008-07-01
In tribal societies lineages commonly subordinate their material to their symbolic interests.
More subtle is the way the minor second also becomes symbolic of the Storm, again starting as a purely graphic detail.
By moving their capital to Delhi, then, the British symbolically sought to resolve centuries of dynastic struggle for control of the subcontinent.
At that level, it helps enormously to have a symbolic unifier like a sports team. Times, Sunday Times
This structure would be responsible for implementation of a long term reparation process, and serve as the responsibility for all outstanding reparations e.g. community, symbolic, administrative and legal, following the life of the Reparations Committee. ANC Daily News Briefing
He permits a real character like Satan to interact with a merely allegorical or symbolic character like Sin. The effect for Johnson - and who can say that this is -- that Johnson is wrong?
They are believed to represent the deity Xolotl, in his role as guider of souls in the underworld and also provide some symbolic food for the departed on his or her journey. Did You Know? Mexico is home to oldest indigenous American domesticated dog breed.
Much of this appears abstract but is in fact loosely representational or symbolic.
But hypotyposes — I return now to §59 — can also be symbolic: Seeing Is Reading
The typical Czech "greengrocer" - Havel's famous description of the symbolic Czech Everyman - did not believe Soviet propaganda, but felt helplessly enmeshed in it. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Rather, they require a careful analysis of contemporary political struggles over questions of representation, symbolic boundary formation, and identification.
I do indeed find political aspects to some robberies, but note that most were not directed against symbolic targets.
Democrats say they won't let a bill pass the Senate with the subsidies provision, which they described as a symbolic gesture aimed at trying to force them to negotiate with the House on the labor issue. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Accompanying these threats, the actions indicated were symbolically performed by the exorciser on effigies of the witches made, in this case, of bitumen covered with pitch. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
His body sank sideways in the same direction, the head lolling nervelessly upon his right shoulder, whilst from the great rent in his breast the blood gushed forth, embruing the water of his bath, trickling to the brick-paved floor, bespattering -- symbolically almost -- a copy of L'Ami du Peuple, the journal to which he had devoted so much of his uneasy life. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
A common attack is to create and uncreate symbolic links in the shared directory to some other file while your program is running -- files like /etc/passwd or /dev/zero are common destinations.
Rather, they require a careful analysis of contemporary political struggles over questions of representation, symbolic boundary formation, and identification.
No one is urged to dwell on the fact that the day's fireworks displays are symbolic of an armed revolution against tyranny and colonialism.
So far as I can see then, the catafalque is simply constructed of a bier (a raised rectangular wooden box or metal stand of dimensions that would hold an adult sized coffin) which is then covered by the black pall, or the same, further with a type of symbolic coffin further placed upon it, similarly covered. Reader Question: Constructing the Catafalque
Localized wage bargaining was symbolic of the decentralization of decision-making in general, a process involving a profound change in managerial culture.
The fact is simply that the two colours do not possess universal symbolic meanings shared by all the peoples of the globe.
Its location on the topmost floor of the Metro Centre should symbolically put the centre on top of council affairs.
Several data sources were used to grasp the gestalt of symbolic-experiential therapy.
Beach imagery, backyard barbecues, and sport also became symbolic of a leisured lifestyle, and were reinforced with the rise of international tourism.
It remained a small, symbolic gesture of anger at the official policy on education.
It is my contention that the difference between a monarchy and a republic would be symbolic only.
The symbolic language of Saint Catherine's day, as celebrated by the Parisian midinettes (young dressmakers and milliners), had its origins in the festive calendar of rural France.
The plenum was of crucial symbolic importance for Mr Hu.
The scraggly relative making its home in my father's backyard pales in comparison, but its symbolic value is far greater.
The detonation of an unexploded bomb discovered along with the German skeletons sends its fragments across the town, causing damage that is more symbolic than physical.
Except for a symbolic burst of sunshine at the film's climax, the entire film was grey and cold and wet - and yet this somehow endears it to the viewer.
The formation of the self in and through language requires the imposition of order, so that certain forms of consciousness – what Kristeva calls the 'semiotic' as opposed to the 'symbolic' – are denied. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 1: Modernism and the Scholastic Revival
The white robes are just symbolic of a pure, clean conscience for the first permanently clean conscience. Christianity Today
From the point of view of the subject, this trauma is a hole, a tear in the symbolic tissue. 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth
A building can be symbolic of power, but it can also be a folly.
Tin purifies water, has an attractive silver lustre symbolic of light, and has no detrimental impact upon other substances.
Horses are one of the recurring motifs in Yeats's art, symbolic of loyalty, intelligence and the unbridled freedom of his early childhood.
The presentations represented a symbolic passing of the torch from one generation to the next.
Perhaps his hair loss is symbolic, a sign of the sapping of his strength. Times, Sunday Times
An analytical expression for determining of singularity configuration which is a polynomial equation is set, and the numeric symbolic manipulating technique is introduced.
In this extraordinary passage, Wright anatomizes the lynch mentality: collective hysteria as a matter of symbolic racial representation.
The decorations alone, often of densely packed plants and flowers with a symbolic significance now lost on most of us, are astonishingly imaginative, sometimes bawdy and often droll.
Instead, Israel could acknowledge the theoretical right of Palestinians to return and accept a small symbolic number who would not alter its demographic balance.
Symbolic interactionism continued to flourish into the post World War II Era.
Their approach to science was symbolic of a new style, following on from the experimental rationalism of Boyle and Newton.
Patala is symbolic of gold and the earth's minerals which energize the terrain and fertilize it.
Stuffed to the edges with dozens of symbolic and didactic creatures and props, the blanket sized, totemic kaleidoscopes - each rendered in firmly cut but onion-skin-thin Japanese mulberry paper - teem with febrile life. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Nonetheless, for these couples, the symbolic value of a state recognizing their relationship will be incalculable.
---But no, no, I wasn't speaking of legislative matters, only symbolic ones. KING OF DREAMS
A map is a form of symbolic representation.
The union leaders appear to be building public support for their cause, with clever use of symbolic gestures and public relations.
The outside hosts a large water pool, as a strongly symbolic image in this sub - Saharan zone.
The conference is not immune to symbolic protests itself.
Regardless of its symbolic significance, however, Sangatte remains a pressing problem in its own right, and a running sore in Anglo-French relations.
Up to 200 members of the Stop the War coalition, CND and other groups symbolically put gags over their mouths as part of the unauthorised protest, which the police had warned would now be illegal.
The move today was largely symbolic.
Consider the variety of symbolic representations in the following: electrical circuit diagrams map of the London Underground medieval picture maps.
Each element of the ceremony has a symbolic meaning .
It is a dim collection of brick sheds groping for some symbolic significance. Times, Sunday Times
Subjects are thus interpellated into the symbolic order as gendered and raced beings and are recognizable only in reference to the existing grid of intelligibility.
In claiming, in this book, that language is essentially symbolic, I am alluding to the status of linguistic signs as symbols, rather than as icons or indexes.
Dirty hospitals are symbolic of an under-funded health service.
It has proved to be the computational method of choice for symbolic manipulation in algebraic geometry, differential equations, and combinatorics.
The painting is symbolic of the constant search for an identity by the woman, who remains mouthless in the entire series.
But this move is still symbolic for all that. Times, Sunday Times
Hughes's dramatic arrival at the local airport seemed symbolic of the cloak-and-dagger air surrounding the US skaters.
The waggle-dance of these remarkable insects – a symbolic system of behavioral communication that conveys information on direction and relative distances to flower patches from the hive, and is perhaps the most complex form of communication known outside the world of humans – would not be discovered for another hundred years. The OLM Blog
In order to know the base number of the pine moth, we should forecast the occurrence. We should value the application of symbolic method for anomaly prediction of pine moth to achieve a good result.
What is clear is that Duchamp's decampment to New York is the single most symbolic act in the transfer of cultural power from old world to new.
April 24th, 2008 11: 18 am ET mr. obama victories are due to his being honest and not talking down to the voters. get honest cnn big symbolic victory. hillary was ahead at one time by 20 plus points and she only won by 9.2 points bulbul Clinton faces uphill battle in North Carolina
Other objects such as polished green stone, in tubular and spherical shapes, had a symbolic value with religious meaning. The artesanias of Michoacan - an introduction
In general, if the application is working with file names, persistence formats, or symbolic information that is not displayed to the user, results of string operations should not vary by culture.
Since Version 5.1, Mathematica has offered general support for piecewise functions, both numerically and symbolically. Wolfram Blog : Splines Come to Mathematica
It's symbolic of the acceptance by the people of the new monarch and acceptance of the new monarch to serve.
That flat has to bear an enormous symbolic burden. Times, Sunday Times
British warships arrived in Gibraltar yesterday, providing a symbolic reassurance to residents. Times, Sunday Times
The shrubbery was symbolic, and one particular tree was planted in memory of the Keller's lost son.
Balfour deconstructs Coleridge's affirmation of the symbol and symbolic politics by pointing to the allegorical style of his political rhetoric.
It is from that exotic image that we get this idiom meaning to define a symbolic point beyond which there is no further compromise.
Didn't colonialist desire dress up its determinate lack as universal and symbolic Lack and thereby justify its appetitive objectification of ‘the colony?’
The role of monarch is a purely symbolic one.
Hallorann, who has come so far to break up a party whose racist exclusiveness is symbolic of his country’s history, is killed by Jack upon his arrival. 2009 August
The earpiece of the Symbolic Order introduces something foreign into his head - it is language.
To be exact, his language fuzzy, jerky, vocative, symbolic, affective, and musical, as is typical of a poetic text.
Today's fighting is symbolic of the chaos which the country is facing.
The underlying analogy is threefold: to consume wine or to abstain from its consumption is to welcome into or exclude from the body politic an outcast which is also to grant or deny representation within a symbolic order. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
It met twice a year to discuss and vote the departmental budget, which it did, often after ritualistic grumbling and symbolic resistance. The Government and Politics of France
A second side to aestheticism in painting was the recovery of classicism, but now in sensual or symbolic guise.
The systems that are the special concern of AI are systems employing symbolic representations, and their interpretative procedures are symbol-manipulating processes.
Depending on pertinent literature, each painting is examined for its realistic, symbolic allegoric meanings.
In Beijing sullen survivors of the massacre symbolically broke small bottles (xiaoping) homonymic with the dictator, and residents of the capital spoke ominously of sorcerers 'creating tiny effigies of 'old Deng' to be hexed and otherwise incised. That Old Chinese Black Magic
He postulates that one reason people with inquiring minds feel there is no place for them in churches is ‘the apparent fixity of our symbolical systems.’
Furthermore, it is perceived to have an educative and symbolic function as well as a practical one.
A stone is also symbolic of eternity, like the cornerstone of a building, placed to last for all time.
According to Jacoby, the hyphen in service-learning is symbolically representative of this symbiotic relationship.
Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their office.
August 29th, 2009 11: 41 pm ET how fitting it was for him to be buried at night and it rain during his funeral this morning. it was very symbolic. the meaning behind the rain was that the state of massachusetts raining tears of sadness for losing a native son. the meaning of the burial not happening until sunset is it being the end of that generation of political service. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
Many others followed Drucker; Robert Reich coined the phrase "symbolic analysts" much the same as Drucker's "knowledge workers" for those trained to use information in a way that allowed them to thrive in a shifting, information-rich networked world. Robert Teitelman: Svengalis, Bankers and the Role of Intermediaries
China's socialist modernization is the contemporary practice of going beyond the capital logic and symbolic logic. It is to prepare conditions for the ultimate liberation in the communist society.
The resulting spectacle of oppression is profound: students communicate symbolically the intellectual and cultural violence of the state's abdication of education, and the authorities, ridiculously, actually interpellate themselves. Sarah Amsler: Creative Militancy, Militant Creativity and the New British Student Movement
Lightning fizzed majestically just on cue behind her spiked crown; briefly illuminating the symbolic relic of a world now lost to the seizing hand of bullying big businesses and tactless political tyrants.
As ready as he is to make amends, and as ready as his siblings are to accept that, all that is needed, in dramatic terms is the symbolic enaction of atonement and acceptance. Archive 2009-01-01

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