Word: symbolisme
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Doerr's poignant portrait never lapses into sentimentality. The narrative voice thrives on an impassive, ineffably wise, yet indulgent tone which must reflect Doerr's 83 years. She never takes the easy option: Her book contains no blatant contrasts, no crass symbolism, no fortuitous plot-twists. She takes pains to...
The actions of police and prosecutors helped weight the trial with symbolism. The uncommon spectacle of Williams being arrested at home, in front of TV cameras, by no less a figure than then police chief Daryl Gates, strengthened the case of those who said the accused were being made scapegoats...
The University responds that symbolism is not reality, and the mission of teaching students to write is central to the work of the faculty.
It's time to eliminate this campus's last vestige of exclusion based on gender. It's time that women stop supporting that do not respect them. And while the final club scene involves only a portion of this campus, the symbolism of exclusion casts a shadow relevant to all...
Members of the Harvard scientific community reacted favorably to Thursday's Senate vote that would give President Clinton $640 million of funding for the Texas Superconducting Supercollider (SSC), with one physics professor suggesting that the vote represents "a triumph of reason over symbolism."