Sentence examples for tense symbol from inspiring English sources
The Zimbabwean sections are told with great ebullience and linguistic brio, rich with dark comedy, before Darling leaves Paradise, her shantytown, for Detroit, that tense symbol of America's lost Edenic hopes.
We can't have one state, much less one nation, when we embrace symbols that reflect a tense and asymmetrical heritage.
Addiction is more than a physical scourge: it's a tense emotional-cultural package, a legacy of colonialism, a symbol of defeat.
The meeting, which happens amid a tense period in the US-China relationship, is a welcome symbol of the Obama administration's dedication to keep human rights on an ever more crowded – and challenging – bilateral agenda.
As midnight approached, a tense stand-off was in place, with hundreds of umbrellas – which are a protest symbol – all that separated frontline protesters from another police charge.
At an extremely tense moment in Egypt, the imprisonment of the al-Jazeera journalists became a powerful symbol of the nation's fragile press freedoms and politicised justice system.
