symbolic expression

collocation in English

meaningsofsymbolicandexpression

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symbolic
adjective
uk
/sɪmˈbɒl.ɪk/us
/sɪmˈbɑː.lɪk/
representing ...
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expression
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us
/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition ofsymbolicandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsymbolic expression

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Each culture is, in all its manifestations of life, thesymbolicexpressionof a 'culture-soul'.
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Again, we have to be careful, for a change in asymbolicexpressiondoes not necessarily imply a change in the relationship between social positions.
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In addition to its links to maternal depression, infant dysregulation, and social support, children'ssymbolicexpressionis shaped by the cultural context.
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Symbolicexpressionis, therefore, not only possible, on this theory, within the privacy of one's own inner life or in the communal sharing of artistic appreciation.
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From that point on, the adaptive value ofsymbolicexpressioncan very easily be seen as the selective force that led to the increase in brain size.
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The inhabitants, the population, these are asymbolicexpressionof socio-economic capacity.
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Examples of soundsymbolicexpressionof diminutive or augmentative meaning are also well attested among members of several different language families and a section is devoted to this topic.
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For itssymbolicexpressionin modern logic see the rule of transposition.
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Their frequent nakedness is perhaps the mostsymbolicexpressionof this reversal.
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Totems, figures, mythological creatures become thesymbolicexpressionof the themes which were dear to his philosophical and spiritual research.
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The exposure, especially in water, signifies no more and no less than thesymbolicexpressionof birth.
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A further step in the development of this custom transferred thesymbolicexpressionof friendship to a larger community.
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They were anti-naturalistic in content and style, forsaking external drama for asymbolicexpressionof the inner life of the characters.
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Its imposing character in relation to the residential environs as well as its architectural quality suggested the importance ofsymbolicexpressionof authority.
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The partial representations, the schematic physiognomies, as well as the faithful thematic rendering, though rare, all speak of a newsymbolicexpressionthat dominated the art of statuettes too.
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