When Will sets foot on Thornhill's Point one of his first acts is to draw in the sand a four-square diagram, an emblem of containment and control prophetic of his future actions.
In several of the paintings the figure of a yogi appears, an emblem of introspective self-control, surrounded by birds, plants and dark, geologic formations.
When Mrs. Warren, lying back in a chair, tells her daughter, "Women have to pretend to feel a great deal that they don't feel," her contented, contemptuous expression is the emblem of a woman in control of her life in a world where hypocrisy reigns.
Consider, for example, the huge banking firm Wells Fargo, which became an emblem of the seeming impossibility of controlling management of big financial services corporations.
With the new law, South Africa hopes to transform an industry that has been an instrument and emblem of white social and economic control since gold and diamonds were first discovered in sizable quantities in South Africa in the 19th century.
The onetime emblem of Japanese efficiency and cost control said that it now expects to report an operating loss for the fiscal year through March, in a market environment that has left nobody immune.
Fast food became a point of contention and an emblem of Western decadence throughout lands backed and controlled by Russia.
The decision to revive the old blue British passport became an emblem of the government's promise to "take back control" after the 2017 election despite the loss of Theresa May's majority.
Throughout, gold is a self-evident emblem of material wealth, with all the mundane clout and control that implies.
Kobani, just yards from the Turkish frontier, has become an emblem of the West's confrontation with the Islamic State, which has seized control of a large swath of Syria and Iraq.
In paintings, she dovetails the figures of Sita from the "Ramayana" and Medea -- the one an ideal of submissive self-sacrifice, the other an emblem of destructive fury -- to propose a complex female persona beyond controlling stereotypes.
