Sentence examples for Positive symbol from inspiring English sources

It's such a positive symbol of a city in flux.

With a yes vote you need some positive symbol.

What we need now is a big, positive symbol on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

In Chinese painting, a lotus on its upright stem is a positive symbol of perfection.

"The Magnum brand is viewed as a positive lifestyle badge and positive symbol," Mr. Daniels said.

It was a positive symbol of the whole privatisation process, he says.

We have to find positive symbols that are reminders of who we are, and the idea of who we are resides in our traditions.

Most positive symbols have been drained of power by our consumerist, sensationalist culture, but these symbols - the SS lightning bolts, the machine guns, and so on - retain their potency.

When, some years ago, I asked the writer and landscape gardener Charles Jencks, a friend of Finlay's, to explain these "electrically charged signs", he replied: "Most positive symbols have been drained of power by our consumerist, sensationalist culture, but these symbols – the SS lightning bolts, the machine guns and so on – retain their potency.

That meant richly embellished white satin gowns for formal occasions, the embroidery pointing up the positive symbols of female rule - the pelican for self-sacrifice, the sieve for chastity.

These transformations parallel the inversion of the traditional meanings of pietas and impietas in Lucretius and other Epicurean writers; in addition, the Giant-like Mezentius evokes the subversive Gigantomachy of Lucretius, which celebrates the archetypal scorners of the gods as positive symbols of Epicureanism.