symbolic imagery

collocation in English

meaningsofsymbolicandimagery

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symbolic
adjective
uk
/sɪmˈbɒl.ɪk/us
/sɪmˈbɑː.lɪk/
representing ...
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imagery
noun[U]
uk
/ˈɪm.ɪ.dʒər.i/us
/ˈɪm.ə.dʒər.i/
the use of words or pictures in books, films, paintings, etc. to describe ideas ...
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(Definition ofsymbolicandimageryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsymbolic imagery

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One must translate thesymbolicimageryof these testimonies into a form useful to twenty-first-century historians.
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The seemingly inconsistent placement of the baffled entries on ceremonial platforms suggests an almost inflated investment in potentsymbolicimagery.
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She is a sculptor working with a variety of materials whose work references formalism and abstraction combined withsymbolicimageryand bright colours.
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Many of his works primarily summarized the plot orsymbolicimagery.
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Surrealism andsymbolicimagerywere also a significant part.
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We humans are alone in developing the capacity forsymbolicimagery.
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The film is highly metaphorical and is rich insymbolicimageryand sound.
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There would be more mystical,symbolicimagerythat might give him more of a sense of what's going on.
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Symbolist poems were attempts to evoke, rather than primarily to describe;symbolicimagerywas used to signify the state of the poet's soul.
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He came to understand this and would employsymbolicimageryin order to garner support for his movements.
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Field connected readily with poetry as alternative narrative structures and an ideal analogue for narrativesymbolicimagery.
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Thissymbolicimagerybound together warfare, cosmology, and nobility into a coherent whole.
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The use ofsymbolicimageryrepresents diversity, unity, and faith in each other and in our ability to contribute responsibly towards the coexistence of all living things.
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Moreaus work depicts an intricate, intense, and startling mystical world, haunting and heavily laden withsymbolicimagery.
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In addition, the series is also noted for its heavy use ofsymbolicimageryand themes, allowing the series to straddle the line between animation and art.
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