As a betrayal, it had, for the political sphere, the same symbolic quality as leaders of the Protestant churches welcoming the Pope.

Adultery therefore should be seen as having a symbolic quality, amounting to sexual conduct outrageous to the other.

This symbolic quality suffused his happiness; he radiated wonder.

The symbolic quality of the figures is emphasized by the fact that they are seen as if on stage, centered in a spotlight against a bare background.

Its subject is the examination of the symbolic and tonal quality of words and objects.

But after all it was the symbolic quality of the tickets that moved me most.

The difference is often not so much in actual language as in the symbolic quality of the prominence of display.

He is the author of "Homeyness," an ethnographic study of the physical and symbolic qualities that connote home.

His dynamic nudes, express symbolic qualities through bold shapes, tones and gesture.