Sentence examples for emblem of human from inspiring English sources
Like Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, Leonardo Padura's Havana, grubby and dangerous, is an emblem of human failings.
Time here is not so much a kind of emblem of human inconstancy, but rather of something like natural law, to which everyone is subject.
Posed on skis in a tight, white T-shirt atop a snowcapped slope, he is no mere bodybuilder but an emblem of human achievement.
In its material — the camps, the misery, the engulfing sense of sin, the positing of Russia not as a country but as an emblem of human fate — "House of Meetings" reminds us of Dostoyevsky.
Mr. Quint's three clowns -- André, Bernd and the man at the Papon trial (the reader may suspect his identity but I've no business revealing it) -- are emblems of human resistance.
She's a poster child of nothing at all — just a happy kid who is a powerful emblem of the human capacity for resilience.
But there is no greater emblem of the human heart's boundless grace than the sight of newlywed lovers getting arrested together after allegedly starting a drunken brawl at an Edmonton bar on their wedding night.
Armstrong appears different: hard where Clinton is soft, an emblem not just of human frailty, but of human ambition and ruthlessness, too.
But by placing Munch in his historical context, the Boston College show makes it possible once again to see how Munch translated private suffering -- including deaths in his family as a child -- into emblems of the human condition.
Ms. Howe's play, an inspiring jolt of enduring optimism and a reminder that the twin towers themselves were emblems of the human penchant for reaching for the sky, provided the fitting conclusion to "Brave New World," the four programs offered by the city's theater artists at Town Hall over the last three days to commemorate the anniversary of last year's attacks.
Aside from the general astonishment that wines so good could come from so unheralded a viticultural source, Château Musar became an emblem of perseverance and human achievement in the wake of dehumanizing conflict.
