Sentence examples for symbol of human from inspiring English sources

The image can be enjoyed on aesthetic grounds or interpreted on a symbolic level: for instance, flowers in still life painting are a symbol of human frailty and mortality.

For Rudge, the preening author-director, the hermit was a resonant symbol of human solitude.

It is, Gardiner says, an "audible symbol of human frailty," akin to Peter's failure of courage.

The Golden Gate, he said, is "a symbol of human ingenuity, technological genius, but social failure".

A little girl there became an unlikely global symbol of human depravity.

The scarred and swollen upper lip that shaped those clarion notes was a flesh-and-blood symbol of human affirmation.

Her moral clarity and graceful bearing long made her a potent symbol of human rights and nonviolence.

"Babies as a symbol of human purity came to this world simple and unadulterated," Mr. Kang writes.

But they clearly believe that Gitmo no longer deserves to be seen as a symbol of human rights abuses.

He said, "Did you know that Koons considers it a symbol of human creation?" Lisa laughed tensely.

"And automatically, he became not only one, or perhaps the leading representative of human rights, but he also became a universal symbol of human rights".