The dancing discs were like coins, emblematic of all the rich, aimless activities of the long day to come.
The gulf between a star like Willis and one like DeHaan is emblematic of the Hollywood machinery's changing tides.
Yet it turns out that the anthropology is even more finely sorted, with emblematic buildings like Windsor Court housing sharply defined subcultures.
Mr. Sander suggested that emblematic events like the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of President Kennedy, as well as the Johnson administration's escalating involvement in Vietnam, colored Serling's writing.
You can look at an organized effort like AARP's as emblematic of what's wrong with American democracy and the lobbying culture that's attached to it like a giant remora on a particularly dim-witted shark or you can say, I gotta get me some of that.
Finding Your Piece of the Pie Key lime pie, like "Margaritaville," is emblematic of Florida's southernmost extremity.
Often the good finds are quite modest, like a small emblematic watercolor of mountains under zigzagging lightning bolts by Rockwell Kent at Cooley.
As in "Philistines at the Hedgerow," his wry dissection of the Hamptons, Gaines sees symptoms of social dysfunction in architecture, like the garishly emblematic Fontainebleau Hotel on Collins Avenue.
Running through the exhibition like a leitmotif, emblematic pieces by the artist represent all these phases, culminating in three works from the last decade of the century — a Crucifixion, a Coronation of the Virgin and a Virgin and Child with St. John — unashamedly archaic in style and poignantly evocative of a lost world of simplicity, sweetness and light.
A salad may seem modest, but that dish (and its cult following among trend-attuned New Yorkers like Ms. Bhojwani) is emblematic of a shift in the way that women participate in the crucial information-gathering and idea-generating ritual known as lunch.
He began teaching the Euro step about three years ago and, like Thorpe, sees it as emblematic of a style of basketball that is more nuanced and driven by technique.
