Sentence examples for symbolic title from inspiring English sources

The elderly ex-king agreed instead to accept the more appropriate symbolic title of "father of the nation".

The soldiers are on leave, but "Sunset," with its symbolic title, is not merely about a boy-meets-girl flirtation.

The former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, who carries the symbolic title father of the nation, opened the meeting, saying it heralded a "new national life for Afghanistan".

The former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, will continue to hold the symbolic title of "father of the nation," but there will be no return of the monarchy.

Councillors unanimously voted to bestow the singer with the honour - an symbolic title to recognise civic contributions - at an extraordinary meeting.

First and foremost, it kept Chelsea at arms' length and had the whiff of a symbolic title-winner as United chased a first Premier League for four years.

Comprising around 300 images taken over the past 25 years or so, Eden and After follows the trajectory of childhood from birth to pre-pubescence through loosely themed chapters with symbolic titles such as The Arrival, The Garden, and the very Goldinesque I'm a Little Girl, I'm a Little Boy.

But United's recent dominance, and their symbolic 19th title, hurts the pride of Merseyside, where memories of Liverpool's own pomp in the 1970s and 1980s are growing fainter.

While mostly symbolic, the title of Heavenly Kaghan shows Taizong's open attitudes towards the existence of a multicultural and ethnically diverse Tang empire.

Part memoir, part psychogeography, his book is concerned with life as it's lived in these liminal spaces, which, in Gevisser's fine handling, take on both physical and symbolic dimensions: the title, Dispatcher, is the name given by Gevisser as a child to the nerdy game he invented of poring over his dad's Johannesburg street map and figuring out routes between points.

Scholar Sondra O'Neale described the phrase as "a folkloric title symbolic of the author's long-deserved ascent to success and fulfillment".