Last month, M. Chirac spoke, symbolically, on behalf of Germany at an EU summit.
The flag doesn't need to speak symbolically for the heritage of South Carolina when Nikki Haley and a dozen candidates' policy platforms and defense of "heritage" will do just that.
I don't speak symbolically either.
There are murmurs that her performance on the Grammys will speak symbolically to her state of mind but producers aren't revealing more.
Bernard Gersten and André Bishop, the executive producer and the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theatre, which is producing "An American Daughter," spoke first, symbolically releasing the play from drydock and launching it on its two-month shakedown cruise.
It is, symbolically speaking, a beacon.
Symbolically speaking, it was really quite impressive.
"They didn't lose just employees; they lost family members, symbolically speaking," said Jim Battaglio, a spokesman for the company's owners, the Hollander family.
At the same time, symbolically speaking, there are legitimate reasons for thinking of them as America's parents: their religiosity, their isolationism, their earnestness and grit.
Symbolically speaking, waste is a remainder, and can be understood as the uncanny, as deteriorating matter, as a figure of nature and natural time that exceeds our own temporal limits and suggests our own terminal assimilation into the earth.
