Sentence examples for symbol of self from inspiring English sources

Somehow in those circumstances it felt like a symbol of self care".

We must recognize the importance of the front yard as a visible symbol of self, the backyard's role as a personal pleasure ground, and the conflict that may occur when the natural landscape is relatively inhospitable to domestic behaviors.

Their shared lover, Ruth, is a thinly-drawn symbol of self-interest and promiscuity.

As a symbol of self-inflicted misery, the listless, half-starved model may be perfect after all.

In England, which Canute conquered in 1016 and ruled for nearly two decades, the anecdote is sometimes remembered as a symbol of self-importance, rather than humility.

The Winkies bum, a symbol of self-loathing and deterioration, haunts Diane, along with the happy couple who represent lost innocence, and Diane kills herself.

Americans live with the sort of wealth that turned Caligula into a monster, Marie Antoinette into a symbol of self-absorption and the British upper classes into anticommercial snobs.

He views his woodpile as a symbol of self-reliance.

Elwood became a four-legged symbol of self-acceptance after his owner wrote a children's book entitled "Everyone Loves Elwood".

From this vantage point, King/Drew is a symbol of self-sufficiency, not the foundering hospital that outsiders see.

She is considered both as a symbol of self-control on sexual desire as well as an embodiment of sexual energy, depending upon interpretation.