Sentence examples for which it represented from inspiring English sources

The butterfly was a reoccurring symbol in Victorian culture (not least its adoption by painter Whistler as his signature), in which it represented freedom.

This victory, celebrated by the triumphal monument at Pergamon (famous for its Dying Gaul) and the liberation from the Gallic "terror" which it represented, earned for Attalus the name of "Soter", and the title of "king".

Several aspects of this latest decision made clear the degree to which it represented continuity rather than a change in the court's recent direction.

We made a bonfire and had a ritual burning ceremony where we each tossed a symbolic object into the fire, vowing to vanquish that which it represented.

Sindelar's shot hit the back of the net like the perfect punch-line, the ending that made it possible to understand and appreciate the perfect composition of the story, the crowning of which it represented".

After a banner year in which it represented Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce giant, in the largest stockmarket flotation yet seen, Simpson declared the biggest bonuses since the financial crisis.

"Moreover, the brain represents faces in a different way from that in which it represents any other object".

Alberich renounces love when he steals the gold, and the gold (and the quest for power which it represents) destroys each of those who take possession of it.

This is complicated by the frequent assumption by the piano of an imitative role in which it represents nature or material reality: a spinning wheel; a galloping horse; a whispering forest.

The motive for scaling is to achieve a homologous relationship between an experiment and the prototype which it represents.

When considering this image objectively, then, we take it in terms of what it is "of" or in terms of that which it represents, which is Socrates.