Sentence examples for subtle symbol from inspiring English sources

"To Huxley," Mr. Friedel wrote, "there was nothing at all natural about zippers, and that is just why they are such a powerful yet subtle symbol throughout his novel".

The Watchtower clock and sign adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge may be more recognizable than the Bossert, but the hotel — easy to walk past on a busy shopping street — is a more subtle symbol of the modest, close-knit religious group and its future in a brownstone bastion.

Lianne also broods over the appearance of a performance artist known as Falling Man, a not so subtle symbol of the hubris of trying to make art out of horror: "He'd appeared several times in the last week, unannounced, in various parts of the city, suspended from one or another structure, always upside down, wearing a suit, a tie and dress shoes.

The argument on both sides has stayed narrowly within the bounds of Islam, with the opposition even deftly using green, the color of Islam and the family of the prophet, as a subtle symbol that its protests are rooted in the faith.

It was a very powerful, if subtle, symbol.

Hazanavicius updates the story to 1999 and the second Chechen War, using the plight of an orphaned nine-year-old refugee as a far from subtle symbol of the West's widespread indifference to the conflict.

The catalogue suggests they are measuring time and money and are thus subtle symbols of the fin de siecle.

The professor, having glanced earlier at the apron while being served by its wearer, saw in it not so much fertility images as subtle symbols of resistance to oppression, especially that of the militarized rich, with those geometric lines like bars to be broken to free the life arrested behind them.

All this, brightened up with a few subtle symbols related to the artist's condition in society, demonstrates the Philadelphia-based new media artist's deep knowledge of and strong interest in history, as well as her sense of aesthetics and composition, merging meaningful classical artworks and architectures with both organic and digital elements.

After Mr. Buchanan's remarks a few weeks ago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson chimed in, telling Politico.com that he found the plantation analogy an insulting and "not-so-subtle symbol".

Jay Walker Jay Walker 's unfinished mansion stands in the woodsy hamlet of Ridgefield, Conn., as a not-so-subtle symbol of dashed dot-com dreams.