Sentence examples for cherished image from inspiring English sources

Much of the violence flared along ethnic lines and threatened to ruin Kenya's cherished image as a bastion of stability in a chaotic region.

But the greatest casualty may be the president's cherished image as a post-partisan leader, one carefully cultivated since he first stepped onto the national stage in 2004 vowing to heal the rift between red and blue America.

The evidence gathered over the last decade has given us a unique window into the ecosystem of the dodo, and forces us to reconsider our cherished image of the dodo as a sitting duck.

Bundled in two sweaters and a coat in his chilly, tiny apartment, an old photographer described in sharp detail his most cherished image of the war -- a young woman, bent under her burden of supplies, laboring up a steep rock face on the Ho Chi Minh trail.

So for a while, my real life matched my cherished image.

If you don't like anthropomorphic representations, your "Ishta Devatta," or cherished image for the Divine, can be a spiritual ideal like Love, or the Formless Absolute, or the Universe, or a sacred mountain, as it was for the great yoga guru Ramana Maharshi.

Like the paintings of Bedouins astride prancing stallions, another Iraqi favorite, scenes of the marshlands are cherished images of old Iraq.

If you carry cherished images of these men, as Beatles and beyond, you may well be uncomfortable with the imitations before you.

He cherished his image as the ultimate oligarch.

How often have you cherished an image of a building only to be disappointed by the real thing?

From the beginning, Americans liked to believe that they were free of Old-Worldly original sin, dwellers in a city on a hill who "cherished an image of themselves as by nature inward-looking and aloof".