Sentence examples for symbolic name from inspiring English sources

The ship was given the symbolic name "al-Awda" (The Return).

The title "The Infinities" refers to a revolutionary theory promulgated by the novel's main character, an eminent mathematician with the heavily symbolic name Adam Godley.

His piece is about the serendipitous arrival of Mr. Sugar (James Sugar, a symbolic name, but an actual photographer for National Geographic).

Once when he went to confront a king, he took with him, to reenforce his prophetic word, a son with the symbolic name Shear-yashuv ("A Remnant Shall Return").

Looking to the New Testament book of Revelation, Rastas await their deliverance from captivity and their return to Zion, the symbolic name for Africa drawn from the biblical tradition.

Yet at the moment of truth she didn't falter; she'd been brutally injured and endured eight days of captivity in a hospital with the nicely symbolic name "Saddam General".

Trollope liked to give some of his characters obtrusively symbolic names, wilfully violating the conventions of realism.

They arrive in Saint Cloud, the racially segregated Florida town where, years before, Chance met his childhood sweetheart, Heavenly (Williams's weakness for symbolic names was never gaudier than here).

As often with this author — not least in his highly overwrought "The Sea," which won the Man Booker Prize — the conceits, the symbolic names and the ostentatiously "lyrical" diction are striking, but too often you feel that the author is simply amusing himself, swatting, like a cat at tinsel, at notions that have caught his eye.

And so Dionysius does not describe the symbolic names as pedagogical tools developed by theologians.

The main novelty of the presented method is that the cyclic object is related to the concept of the shape categories called the symbolic names.