The famous Seurat was greatest in his black chalk drawings, and among these the sketch of a dark horse probably done in the 1880s, like some strange, threatening symbol, outdoes most others.
His name, still emblazoned over the top of that now famous bridge, was a powerful and threatening symbol of white power and supremacy in Selma, Ala.
On the surface, it appeared to be a classic example of capitalist greed trampling culture and history: a super-swank, high-end hotel/auction-house complex with a parking garage, servicing a vulgar, tiny layer of Russia's super-rich, threatening the very symbol of Russia, just a few hundred metres away.
The disease attracted special concern because it threatened important symbols of this way of life, the foxhound and the fox hunt.
It is 45 years since American teenagers queued around the block to see The Wild One, and the "outlaw" biker image was born - the product of a repressive Fifties culture - a not-too-threatening symbol of rebellion.
Whether on his tower of office furniture, where he spies on Glickman's son, or whether threatening people against the repeated symbol of burning tomatoes, he's a skulking, ever-present villain.
Others felt the new design on a police car was "threatening, intimidating, harassing and a symbol of racism," Dicterow said.
Taking a cab from the Las Vegas airport, I had a firsthand experience of being an embodied symbol of something threatening.
The illegal slaughtering of dolphins is on the rise here, threatening one of the storied symbols of the Amazon and illustrating the challenge of policing environmental law in such a vast territory, researchers and government officials say.
DeGioia said the Nazi symbol was "accompanied by threatening and derogatory language advocating for violence against women".
In 1978, the skyscrapers are, for many people, symbols of what is threatening about the time in which we live.
