Example sentences for: iconic

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  • So fond of iconic childhood is Zemeckis, in fact, that he takes a good half hour to inch toward anything that looks like a plot.

  • Both Sutton's and Pollak's Bettelheim allegories--the renegade from the narrow Freudian path and the total fraud--have obvious iconic appeal for our post-psychoanalytic era.

  • Apart from Warhol's own iconic status, his pose recalls a notorious moment of '60s political theater: Lyndon Johnson's display, to a press corps as yet unaccustomed to familiarity with the intimate anatomy of presidents, of his gall-bladder surgery scar, which illustrator David Levine later rendered as a map of Vietnam.

  • Sapper's design paved the way for what is still the most iconic kettle of all: Michael Graves' "Five O'Clock" teakettle, designed for Alessi and introduced in 1985, is conical in shape, with a long spout.

  • The iconic word is surfing: a sociolinguistic cornucopia of connotations of sport, vigor, youth, individuality, speed, independence, leisure, health, and middle-to-upper-class education and affluence.


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