To me, the authentic symbols of our country start with the covenants, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Creativity is encouraged, but the artifacts should include authentic symbols or other characteristics that are indicative of the time and place.
Considering modern attitudes to Thomas Jefferson, the historian Gordon Wood wrote: We make a great mistake in idolizing and making symbols of authentic figures, who cannot and should not be ripped out of their time and place.
It sometimes seems that the further they get from actual farm life, the more they take guns as a symbol of their authentic identities — as symbols of the purer lives they are leaving behind for the office parks and the super-stores.
The tears arrive on cue, and to the extent that Ms. Vassilieva has embodied an authentic adolescent rather than a symbol of suffering, they are earned.
No. It's still Ka Ching, Asian hub of commerce, come-ons and status symbols reconfigured into authentic knockoffs.
Brown felt that the possession of a symbol who was both authentic and alive — unlike Betty Crocker, Colonel Morton, or Aunt Jemima, for instance — was one of the company's greatest assets.
First, triumph: a steep ascent from its humble origins to the swing era, when jazz was simultaneously a fully realized "authentic art," a source of "pure pleasure" for the masses and a symbol of American exceptionalism abroad.
It is only by first recovering a genuine theological concept of the symbol, therefore, that we are able in turn to distinguish an authentic concept of the allegorical.
His songs felt authentic and intimate, yet they were filled with invented places and characters, private symbols, and impressionistic scraps of language.
This is not unlike the practice of fashion designers who, inspired by the dress of an ethnic minority incorporate symbols into contemporary clothing without suggesting that women wear literal - authentic - folk costumes.
