Sentence examples for moral symbol from inspiring English sources

"He was the moral symbol the times seemed to demand".

The city of my youth, not so long ago, cast the bicycle as neither a moral symbol of environmentalism and fitness, nor the manifestation of roadway anarchy.

She was a moral symbol, and we read into that symbol certain virtues, which turned out to be wrong when she actually began speaking".

In Queen Victoria, who disapproved of aristocratic excess and could be seen in both her habits and family life to exemplify the advantages of meek domesticity, this new social grouping had a moral symbol, and in the weekly magazine Punch, founded in 1841 and a huge hit with its middle-class readership, they had what amounted to a house journal.

Barry Schwartz, a sociologist who has examined America's cultural memory, argues that in the 1930s and 1940s, the memory of Abraham Lincoln was practically sacred and provided the nation with "a moral symbol inspiring and guiding American life".

It remains an open moral wound, a symbol of the violation of our nation's deepest values.

Ritze pushed for the installation of the Ten Commandments on the lawn of the state capitol because they represent a strong moral and religious symbol for Oklahomans, he explained.

From Tolstoy to the poet Anna Akhmatova and the dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, the most respected Russian intellectuals have traditionally functioned not just as cultural figures but as national symbols, moral beacons and speakers of truth.

For him, the material decay of Rome was the effect and symbol of moral decadence.

It was a truly diabolical sight, the very symbol of moral corruption.

The material decay that had inspired him in Rome was the effect and symbol of moral decadence.