Sentence examples for permanent icon from inspiring English sources

Thus it was Mr. Jennings whose courage made him a permanent icon -- and the infant movement's first hero -- when he was arrested in Los Angeles on a sexual solicitation charge a year later and decided to publicly contest it in court.

Mixing social history, urban studies, literature, and film, along with forays into such topics as the lure of Hollywood for utopian communities and the development of domestic architecture in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Sign is a fascinating account of how a temporary structure has become a permanent icon of American culture.

Around the time that rock stars began to sell out to car commercials, the male icon entered a permanent decline.

Surely no coincidence, his pivotal 1956 painting "Gray Alphabets" hangs inside the Menil museum just up the sidewalk from the institute, an icon within its celebrated permanent collection.

The permanent collection of 20th-century design icons is currently complemented by the "It's A Small World" exhibition, which explores the impact of global issues of sustainability, technology and consumption on the future of design.

It is easily accessible as a "smiley face" icon, which is now a permanent fixture on the camera's LCD screen in record mode, and can be toggled off and on at the touch of a finger.

Last week plans were revealed about the permanent, digital-age stages planned for both icons of the industrial age.

Housed in an 18th-century townhouse, the museum uses period rooms of parquet floors, painted wallpaper and chandeliers for its temporary exhibitions, and more modern spaces for "Object Stories," its permanent collection of (mostly) 20th-century design icons and iconoclasts.

The Danish Design Center, by the brilliant Henning Larsen, which opened across the street in 2000, houses a small permanent collection of modern design, with objects by icons like Eames, Aalto, Rietveld -- and Earl Tupper!

USD604,305: This covers the layout of Apple's iOS UI — a grid of home screen icons with a lower bar for "permanent" apps at the bottom.

Don't fret if NASA passed up your place as one of the Shuttles' permanent homes as there are plenty of avation icons to go around.