A lexicon of new, nonsexist English, the book contains original coinages, like "Mister-ectomy" ("a guaranteed solution to The Contraception Problem"), plus familiar pejoratives like "crone" and "hag," rehabilitated as emblems of pride.
He also echoes the Bruce Lee persona in being an emblem of racial pride.
A sports team is first and foremost an emblem of civic pride and community spirit.
You wonder, is this simply an emblem of American pride, or is there something more nuanced going on here?
Within this community zouk emerged as an emblem of cultural pride, owing first and foremost to the music's use of Creole lyrics.
Once the emblem of the pride and the menace of a resurgent Russia, Gazprom has become a symbol of this oil state's rapid economic decline.
Rocker's comments spurred New Yorkers to do a rare thing: praise the subway — in this case, the 7 train, with its especially diverse ridership, holding it up as an emblem of city pride.
To a place like Arlington, already overshadowed by neighboring Dallas and Fort Worth, the Rangers were an emblem of local pride, and the possibility that it might lose the franchise was shattering.
In a country that has had many self-inflicted financial crises, and not long ago had a currency that lost 80 percent of its value each year, it is not surprising that the lira's strength has been embraced as an emblem of national pride.
The new Monte Rosa Hutte, stranded like a crashed UFO on a rock in the middle of the vast Gorner glacier, is an emblem of Helvetic pride, having been conceived with the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and rather more lavishly funded (for the same capacity) than the Gouter hut.
WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday takes up a free speech case on whether Texas was wrong in rejecting a specialty vehicle license plate displaying the Confederate flag - to some an emblem of Southern pride and to others a symbol of racism.
