What is "symbolically"

Usage examples of "symbolically".

Confronted with a constant, but questionable, contrast between nature and culture, we symbolically take sides with nature by buying a cultural construction of it.

The subjective experience of lucid dreaming is so symbolically resonant with ancient Asian religious conceptions of how God creates the universe that the cultivation of lucid dreaming has been a religious and meditative discipline since before Patanjali first wrote down the oral poems of instruction in yoga meditation around 800 B.

I was brought back to two separate times, the first being my initial meeting with Onan, when I saw the muraled dome, the genetics of history, and its depiction of the events which were symbolically representative of Daem: the deformed man, the warring races, the worshipers of the White Eagle.

West Ponente signifies Air, following the breath seems symbolically appropriate.

Such allegorists claimed that whoever looked beyond their obvious meaning and read them symbolically could find hidden in them the deeper truths of natural philosophy.

Respected Captain Folsom, although symbolically dressed for the violence of battle, stood in the doorway with his mouth open and his eyes wide, and a certain pastiness of complexion.

The functions of the cerebrum and spinal system may be symbolically represented as those of the highest and lowest organs, thus giving rise to the positive and negative extremes of feeling.

The same image could very well be applied to Meursault, who is symbolically, if not literally, an alien.

Active Energy and produce intellection or thought, are represented symbolically in the Kabalah as male and female.

In every one of the mythological systems that in the long course of history and prehistory have been propagated in the various zones and quarters of this earth, these two fundamental realizations -- of the inevitability of individual death and the endurance of the social order -- have been combined symbolically and constitute the nuclear structuring force of the rites and, thereby, the society.

In their tribute to the God of Fire, Agni, messenger of renewal, all of India is symbolically brought to life.

Entering the east gate, symbolically swallowed by the gaping mouth of the kala, the monster head carved over the doorway, you turned left (demons lurked on the right) into a narrow passageway lined with bas-reliefs depicting narrative scenes from the Buddha's 550 lives, sermons in stone to draw the pilgrim toward enlightenment as you circumambulated the shrine through the constricting channels of the phenomenal world, rising terrace by terrace from the realm of forms suddenly, startlingly out onto the broad circular terraces at the summit, the revelation of the open sky, the liberating miracle of formlessness.

Charla, with a single vulgar tweak, had reduced him to clownishness, had turned consternation into farce, had shown, symbolically, her ability to destroy his pride, dignity and manhood at her option.

The Office in progress was Compline, which closed the canonical hours for the day, and in two orderly lines the Gabrilite brethren, priests, Healers, and a few older students were filing out of their stalls and up the center aisle to make a reverence before their abbot and then conjure handfire symbolically from the light in his hands.

It gave Kit intense pleasure to symbolically consign the drafters of the requisite government forms to a long life marooned on one of those miniature desert islands, without hope of rescue.