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symbolism

noun as in typology

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A devout Catholic, the artist makes paintings that are heavy with sporadic, jagged symbolism.

"But then we realised that would have been A, too expensive, but B, you'd have been looking into the capsule next door, rather than the view. So the symbolism worked but actually the experience didn't."

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She returned to her car, having felt the symbolism of Tommy’s surviving basketball hoop, and having salvaged a ceramic figurine and a slightly scorched metal figurine of a trumpet player.

What she’s done is she’s used this very particular language, iconography and symbolism that so explicitly represents a culture that is specific to South Central and is using that to reach a wider international community.

“Cities and states across America have banned plastic straws, caving to pressure from woke activists who prioritize symbolism over science,” the White House said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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