Sentence examples for contemporary icon from inspiring English sources

And Ron Farquhar, visiting Norwich Cathedral, saw a notice: "On the pillar to the east hangs a contemporary icon of the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist".

The London Eye is a unique attraction and a contemporary icon of London and the UK, so there can be no better way to get this important message across".

Thirty-five yeago ago, while Martin Amis was writing "Money," one of the novels that defined the nineteen-eighties, he admitted to a distracting dalliance with another contemporary icon.

In The Weekly Standard (www.weeklystandard.com) of June 11, Stephen Schwartz, a journalist who has been studying Communism and intellectuals in the 1930's, has daringly suggested that Benjamin, a contemporary icon for much of academic criticism, might have been murdered by Stalin's agents.

Kateri's portrait appears on a contemporary icon drenched with gold.

"They're probably worthless (because they do not portray a contemporary icon)," said Harold.

On his Voyages dans les temps Tumblr, Lacroix deftly inserts contemporary icons into iconic artworks.

KH REVIEWED: SIMON COWELL'S NEW BEARD Two weeks, two contemporary icons of masculinity grow new beards.

They are, rather, what the professors call cultural signifiers, contemporary icons that stand for deep-running collective urges, like the fantasy of an intimate connection with nature.

Whatever else might be said about it, Lasse Hallstrom's new film, "Chocolat," brings together two contemporary icons of sorrowful, hollow-cheeked luminosity -- Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche.

Thrusting China's contemporary icons into the aesthetic landscape of early Communist propaganda provides a striking image of quite how far the country has come since Deng Xiaoping began his policy of Reform and Opening in 1978.