Sentence examples similar to as a symbolic instance from inspiring English sources

"I feel that we are just sitting here as a symbolic symbol right now".

Young, for instance, made "Silent Night" accessible as a symbolic salve for addressing some of the tensions that the young nation torn by Civil War was soon to endure.

The martyrdom of Isobel Gowdie, for instance (a Scots Catholic girl killed during the Reformation) is not treated in terms of literal representation, but as a symbolic narrative.

It was not intended as a symbolic gesture.

It is easy, for instance, to look at the graceful, feminine lines of a Louis XV chair, delicately curved and luxuriously upholstered, and to see it as a symbolic expression of the superficialities of court life.

But she saw it largely as a symbolic measure.

But many will stick with her as a symbolic statement.

"We changed our names as a symbolic gesture".

As a unilateral statement, it has no force other than as a symbolic political declaration.

This turns out to have a devastatingly practical function as well as a symbolic one.

In what was seen as a symbolic gesture towards Pakistan, India testfired a BrahMos cruise missile.