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  • Symbolism is important, and if we get rid of this clown somehow, I hope that butt-kissing bow is his legacy.

    Turns out that Honduras did not have a coup after all. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Symbolism is important in diplomacy, and they're not religion-blind so its silly for us to pretend its not an issue. bbpdx

    Team of Rivals - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • Symbolism is considered apparent by materialists and atheists because of the metaphysical blinders they wear.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • Carl Lumholtz, in Symbolism of the Huichol Indians: A Nation of Shamans (Oakland, California: B.I. Finson, 1988), made observations about the religion of the Huichol.

    Sixteenth century indigenous Jalisco 2005

  • Carl Lumholtz, in Symbolism of the Huichol Indians: A Nation of Shamans (Oakland, California: B.I. Finson, 1988), made observations about the religion of the Huichol.

    Sixteenth century indigenous Jalisco 2005

  • "I don't think the producer has read the synopsis," was one haughty comment I heard on the way out of the show the other day Vick's circular flashback trick works wonders on Pelleas, but you can only see that if you have heard the word Symbolism before.

    Pelleas premonitions Jessica 2004

  • "I don't think the producer has read the synopsis," was one haughty comment I heard on the way out of the show the other day Vick's circular flashback trick works wonders on Pelleas, but you can only see that if you have heard the word Symbolism before.

    Archive 2004-06-01 Jessica 2004

  • It is difficult indeed to speak of the probable future of poetry without introducing the word Symbolism, over which there has raged so much windy warfare in the immediate past.

    Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

  • In French literary circles, the style of this period was known as Symbolism, a movement that directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

  • Emerson -- may be gathered from "Symbolism," which, read in the light of what I have quoted, needs, I hope, no further interpretation.

    Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

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