And this is its splendor, this is howit becomes an emblem, not of failure or loss,but of the impossible.
And this is its splendor, this is how it becomes an emblem, not of failure or loss, but of the impossible.
Opponents try to make the error seem more intentional than it was, twisting an honest linguistic mistake into an emblem of personal failure.
There is also a prize for the worst failure, a garish green-and-white child's computer nicknamed the O.L.P.C. — for One Laptop Per Child — a program that MobileActive members regard as the emblem of the failure of technology to achieve change for the better.
Yet, somewhat paradoxically, Mr. Portman's buildings also became emblems of urban failure.
Once the border shut entirely in March, the site became a full-scale camp, and an emblem of Europe's failure to manage the refugee crisis.
He is, instead, an emblem of loneliness and failure, whose cocoon of self-delusion and misplaced vanity is carefully dismantled by the sharp, remorseless tweezers of Mr. Solondz's sensibility.
The crumbled remains of the illegal building in which the Sarkar family lived in a riverside neighborhood of East Delhi have become an emblem of India's failure to come to grips with its urban explosion.
Her inability to open the front door strikes her as the overwrought emblem of a sexual failure; the workmen who had installed the new lock had seemed to insinuate that locks "recognize the hand of their master".
