symbolization

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The net result: "plastic cosmogony" � which means, he says, "no longer a symbolization or interpretation but, through the specific means of art, a direct visualization of the forces which move our mind and body."

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Ruled the committee: "The Capitol Building itself is the best possible symbolization of the ideals of democracy."

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Kong is a primal dream work, a symbolization of some deep and basic special anxiety of the species�and the only one created directly for the movies, having no ready roots in literature or folk lore.

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All the same, there were difficulties of symbolization, which is why the distinctions that early theologians drew between various levels of angels did not endure in art.

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A vague symbolization of his achievements was preserved from generation to generation in myth-tale and epic, but he knew not how to make permanent record of his history.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various