symbolism

Some commentaries noted it was less about substance than ceremony and symbolism, but what did it commemorate or symbolize?

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

DJ SoulChild AC said on TikTok that even if it wasn’t Converse’s intention, “We can see the symbolism from a mile away.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

If Miliband’s speech and the accompanying announcements were largely symbolic, the symbolism was nonetheless powerful.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

“The White House is an iconic American building whose symbolism and history are wrapped up in its architecture,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

A five-hundred-word essay on symbolism, how to find hidden meanings in Hawthorne.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Why does heavy metal use so many biblical references and symbolisms?

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021

The angels mesmerizingly invoke the symbolisms of Old World Catholicism, Peru’s indigenous culture, and, thanks to their malevolent European-looking faces, the clashes that resulted when these forces met.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2017

An amiable fantasy, the play is told in homely, backyard terms, with no attempt at cosmic symbolisms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Part of Playwright Chayefsky's purpose in doing this is to cast light on the world of reality, to set up symbolisms, set speculation going.

From Time Magazine Archive

And thus in the Arts we have symbolism at every stage of transparency and obscurity; from symbolisms which merely summarise speech to symbolisms which transcend it.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers