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A correspondent reports from the climate change talks, day oneTHIS column, emblematically , comes to you from a bus.
Portraying himself with a sunflower, van Dyck expresses emblematically his devotion to the King.
It's one of the rare movies that seems truly musical in its inspiration — and which, like much great music, envelops an astonishing complexity of invention and depth of insight in emblematically straightforward expressions.
Despite its ambitious name, the event was confined almost entirely to Italy, where the Contigianis orchestrated a number of whimsical events: a reverse bicycle race in Ferrara (where the last rider was declared the winner); an afternoon of grandfathers reading poetry to children in the main square of Follonica; a celebration of the emblematically slow animal, the donkey, near Livorno.
What has been simply a series of private misfortunes for Lily suddenly becomes something larger: the tragedy of a New York City social world whose priorities are so divorced from nature that they kill the emblematically attractive female who ought, by natural right, to thrive.
He also played up cheerfully to the Englishman's image, posing emblematically with bowler hat and furled umbrella.
Emblematically Southern in her front-porch loquacity, Smith crowds her book with fateful accidents, malcontent marrieds and individuals who aren't at all reluctant to ditch their families.
This emblematically "Office -like sequence Office -likensequencestarts and misread signals was initiated ofer thesitationswhen Mr. Carell said publicly that the coming seandn of the show would be his last.
Nothing else coming up on his schedule is emblematically Rock-like either, from his role in Julie Delpy's "2 Days in New York" — a sequel to her film "2 Days in Paris," opening Friday, in which he plays her live-in boyfriend who is overwhelmed by the arrival of her French relatives — to his work as executive producer of a new FX talk show, "Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell".
Led by the emblematically named Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a one-time bohemian who has given up novel-writing to work as a shoeshine boy, these outsiders protect a Congolese teenager in flight from the authorities after escaping from a container taking him and other refugees to London.
The plotting is, as always, consummate and the politician is emblematically hypocritical, greedy and utterly self-absorbed.
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As an adverb, "emblematically" functions as a sentential or manner modifier. It qualifies a verb, adjective, or entire clause to indicate that the subject serves as an emblem. According to Ludwig AI and the provided examples, it is frequently used to introduce a descriptive detail that carries metaphysical or social weight.
Expression frequency: Common
