Sentence examples for symbolic representative from inspiring English sources

What Oppenheimer has done is cede the prerogative of asking questions to the victims' families – or rather, one symbolic representative.

The Kuba, from the south-central region, are known for ndop, statues created in the likeness of the king that can serve as a symbolic representative in his absence.. Luba art dominates the southeast region and reflects the strong influence of women in society through statuettes depicting motherhood.

But they're also meant to be symbolic, representative; short-hand for a concept or idea.

She was not called upon to make any major decisions, instead dealing with smaller matters and acting as the symbolic representative of her absent husband, meeting with and helping to negotiate with magnates and clergy.

As a symbolic representative for European Islamophobia in the new mainstream Arab popular perception, jihadists saw Denmark as a particularly interesting target for their global jihad, and for years after the crisis in 2006, several Danish journalists, editors and cartoonists were forced to live with 24/7 police protection.

This bombast, this "false sublime", is unfavourably compared to "goodness", of which the Heartfrees in this book are the symbolic representatives.

Though the Nobel committee does not release names of nominees, it is known that three people have been proposed for the prize as symbolic representatives of the Greek volunteers.

But this is never the case: The motive for mass murder -- the killing of strangers en masse -- is always the same as the motive for war: to get rid of symbolic representatives of "the enemy," whether the enemy is the personal concoction of a troubled mind or the collective creation of a racist society.

I know that's symbolic and representative of what you've accomplished on the internet in general.

Where portraits can reveal personality and character, their destruction becomes a symbolic act, representative of an ongoing struggle.

Representative symbolic sculpture tends either to simplify the figure in an abstract, geometrical, or expressionistic style or to imitate nature realistically.