Sentence examples similar to an emblem of knowledge from inspiring English sources

"Vitruvian Man" has entered popular culture as an emblem of Leonardo's genius — redolent of secret knowledge, referred to in the initial crime scene of "The Da Vinci Code" and reproduced on the face of the Italian one-euro coin.

Francis has made simplicity an emblem of his papacy.

But not an emblem of proverbial Gallic vanity.

Mr McNealy thus became an emblem of the internet boom.

He became too, in absence, an emblem of unity.

Nearly 50 years later, Clearwater remains an emblem of environmental reform.

He is an emblem of the country now.

It is an emblem of success and cultural know-how.

George Romero updated the zombie as an emblem of consumption.

Its main emblem, the building formerly called the Freedom Tower, which is only taking shape today, remains an emblem of national hubris that is hollow at its core.

It reveals how the political ambition to provide an emblem of the crushing of public disorder dissolved in the face of public apathy and opposition.