Sentence examples for symbolic submission from inspiring English sources

This policy of symbolic submission helped the Manchus in telling friend from foe.

All this, recounted in a tone of epic grandeur that self-consciously recalls Homer, suggests why most Greek cities, confronted with the approaching hordes, readily acceded to Darius' demand for symbolic tokens of submission — "earth and water".

The news and layoffs were expected, as the company has slashed many more thousands of jobs over the last year, but this particular cut is symbolic: the intensely European company has been battered into submission, and will join the others in the now-standard configuration of "design here, build there".

The irony of this is symbolic of Sand's ambivalent presentation of gender relations in her novels, in which the dialectic of submission and dominance is in constant flux.

"How symbolic".

In submission.

No submission.

Symbolic scene?

Be symbolic.

Symbolic representation.

So symbolic!