Sentence examples for convenient symbol from inspiring English sources

Southern rednecks thus became a convenient symbol of all that impeded progress.

Was he a convenient symbol for an antiwar movement or was there more to his message?

He was viewed as a cornball and a square, a convenient symbol of the bourgeois values modernism sought to topple".

It was a convenient symbol for the evening, especially as the plane slowly sank into a bed of clouds.

It has become both an asset and a burden for Ms. Park that her father's legacy has become a convenient symbol of the continuing clash of perspectives on the country's modern history that underlies the split between liberals and conservatives.

That sounds like a filmmaker's convenient symbol, but, if you live in certain parts of southern Italy, the poisoning of the land is right in front of your nose, and under your skin.

Too many novelists and critics and not-too-bright pundits have used the Manson murders and Altamont as convenient symbols for the collapse of the '60s.

Keating and Lincoln Savings became convenient symbols for arguments about what had gone wrong in America's financial system and society, and were featured in popular culture references.

Keating and Lincoln Savings became convenient symbols for arguments about what had gone wrong in America's financial system and society, as well as for 1980s greed in general, and were featured in popular culture references.

Trump's tribute to King was only a symbolic move, but it's not wholly surprising since King has largely become a convenient political symbol.

They feature in almost every story about the island and they're a convenient shorthand symbol for the place that so many have heard about but very few choose to visit.