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Example sentences for: emblem

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Steiner opens the collection with "The Uncommon Reader," a tour-de-force meditation on Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting Le Philosophe lisant , which becomes, through attentive reading of details--"his folio, his hourglass, his incised medallions, his ready quill"--an emblem for the vanishing culture of book and reader.
Like the emblem on its coat of arms, the Ile de la Cité takes the form of a boat, with the romantic tree-shaded place du Vert Galant as its prow pointing downstream.
Régis Debray, Che's comrade, wrote a memoir last year in which he warned against exactly that delusion--"the anti-authoritarian revolt of '68 taking this hardcore partisan of authoritarianism for its emblem."
Much was enacted, much was shown,the burning one is soughtas an emblem; just once you will lie downbetween her legs.
It has splendid marble paving and, etched in the wall of one of the smaller rooms, a controversial cross regarded by some as one of the oldest Christian relics, though others insist the emblem was not adopted until the conversion of Constantine three centuries later.