Sentence examples for public icon from inspiring English sources

TV Land says it is "honoring a public icon".

Smith retains the mystery of a pop star who found fame long before the Internet existed: like his hero David Bowie, Smith is a public icon whose private life remains so.

For more than 20 years he was an enormously popular figure in San Francisco, with the shrewd insight, intuitive wit and sheer nuttiness of his many proclamations making him a fixture in the newspapers and a public icon.

It's not just that, as a public icon as recognisable as any A-list actor or rock star, he came to seem a permanent fixture of the cultural landscape.

To find, as Jean M. Humez seeks to do in "Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories," "the private woman whose life has virtually disappeared behind the heroic public icon," is no small challenge.

Washington was the unchallenged public icon of American military and civic patriotism.

That's the official version of Mae West, of course, and like most outsize public icons, it is made of natural grit and artificial varnish.

The proclamation of the republic outside the GPO building on Easter Monday 1916, together with the men who signed the proclamation and the buildings in Dublin where around 1,500 insurgents fought for it in the following days, have all become enduring Irish public icons.

Psychoanalytic feminists agree that our identity is produced out of identifications with various imaginary constructions (beauty ideals, heroic personages, our parents, or public icons).

Royko in Love: Mike's Letters to Carol, the newest edition to the Press's collection of works by the award winning journalist, offers a rare look into the personal life of one of Chicago's most beloved public icons.

He physically melds together public icons and personal artifacts, the residue of his loved ones and symbols of the nation, melting the boundaries between them in the process.