Others are totemic, involving plants or animals that are symbolic of kin groups. |
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But it's a testament to his totemic presence and charisma that he's entirely convincing. |
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A mythology of looming threats has created an insatiable appetite for security, which then has to be assuaged through totemic gestures. |
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But in any war over ideas, symbols matter as much as practicalities and foundation hospitals have thus become totemic. |
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The consubstantial kindreds known as totemic groups include both human and non-human kin. |
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It is something talismanic, totemic, intangible, all-consuming, corrosive, compulsive, elusive, indefinable. |
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Among these patterns are those that cross-cut human and other species, creating the consubstantial kindreds known as totemic groups. |
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Maybe it's the sheer volume of scandals on the landscape today, robbing any one of its totemic power to shock and dismay voters. |
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Setting aside the heat and noise over the totemic NHS, the state of the public services has barely registered in the campaign. |
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Perhaps, as demonstrations of what ancient people stood for, the big totemic building never shows the best of the way they were. |
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According to Aboriginal belief, totemic spirit ancestors emerged from the earth and descended from the sky to awaken a dark and silent world. |
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The iDrum series speaks about how we use icons and objects of pop-culture as totemic representation. |
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The turtle is a symbol with totemic value to Fr. Fenton and also refers to his Cree heritage. |
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However, they also travelled widely to trade, find water and seasonal produce and for ritual and totemic gatherings. |
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To make matters worse, Santos went into the return leg at the Maracana a month later with their totemic star missing through injury. |
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He decorated his Christmas cards with totemic animals copied from Aboriginal rock galleries, not sheep and oxen kneeling in prayer around a manger. |
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In four years he had gone from nobody to totemic figure, each new direction he took wrong-footing fans who were desperately trying to keep pace with him. |
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Diversity is largely accepted and encouraged, but lacks the totemic significance assigned to it by boomer activists. |
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That instruction, which was both theoretical and practical, concerned inter alia the totemic and historical traditions, and the duties and rights of each individual towards society. |
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Species harvest restrictions: Among the Tonda, certain species, such as crocodile or eagle, have totemic significance and may be barred from hunting, and size limits are traditionally placed on some wildlife or fish. |
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But income tax is the totemic tax – and a government vulnerable to charges that it is by the rich and for the rich has exposed itself to easy attack. |
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The Zenú use a complex traditional method to transform the natural caña flecha palm tree fiber into black and white fibers that they then weave into patterns representing the totemic elements of the Zenú culture. |
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How could the ultimate scientist have been seemingly hornswoggled by a totemic psuedoscience like alchemy, which in its commonest rendering is described as the desire to transform lead into gold? |
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Within the most sophisticated form of human habitat, street art invents a way of 'painting the cavern', of unwinding, of going back to the generic, tribal-like and totemic images of the subconscious. |
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We might not have anything in common with the people around us in our day to day lives, but once we see that they have something similar, we become connected through the use of totemic representation. |
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The antelope is the totemic animal of most of the Kurumba tribes. |
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The works from early in the decade have a masklike, totemic quality, reminiscent of Gorky and early Pollock. |
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The Great Peace of Montreal treaty of 1701, a seminal document in French-Aboriginal diplomacy with many totemic signatures, is another missing piece. |
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The spraypainted images were totemic representations of dizzy-eyed kids playing with their gadget as if it was a skateboard, a puppet, an icecream, without including any brand names. |
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Two of these, plus Communication Station, act as shelving units, serving up totemic tchotchkes similar to those Johnson has used before. |
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