Sentence examples for very emblem from inspiring English sources

With his multiracial background and superb talent, Zidane was the very emblem of this new France.

For some, wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs may seem the very emblem of triumph over life's vicissitudes.

In the novel Emma is the very emblem of indignantly stiff spine.

Moussavi, with his impeccable revolutionary credentials, was the very emblem of unthreatening change.

I felt that this school, once the very emblem of privileged heterosexual hegemony, had evolved as much as our President has.

A bad earthquake at once destroys our oldest associations: the earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a thin crust over a fluid.

Arguably, that function was served in part by the wild looting of post-combat Baghdad that focused on the very emblems of the once untouchable status of the regime -- the government ministries and private villas and gilded palaces.

What if the 310-pound man trying to jam into the middle seat and the 225-pound woman breaking into a sweat only halfway up the stairs aren't the undisciplined miscreants of modern American life but the very emblems of it?

The flag has become a very symbolic emblem for devout Cubs fans.

Through his daring escapes and incorrigible crime spree, "he became a very important emblem of resistance to forms of consumer capitalism, to the birth of the police state".

As if there weren't enough turbulent plot device, Keaton must also battle his alter ego, the magical realist Birdman, the very feathered emblem of his starring role in the Birdman action series.