Word: symbolism
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Whether some members of the University like it or not, the Stars and Bars are part of the state flag of Georgia and are a symbol of regional pride. As such, it is not a preposterous wall decoration for an enthusiastic Southerner...
...prison. The verdict of history will hardly judge Nelson Mandela a common criminal. Despite the government's determination to lock him away for good and crush his liberation movement, the unrelenting crusade to abolish apartheid that he waged from a prison cell over the decades made him the supreme symbol of the black struggle in South Africa...
Freudian theorists would have the best, and the most meaningful, nightmares about my grandfather's encroachment of their territory. These critics spend their entire careers picking apart literature to find hidden symbols of sexual repression. The snake in the Garden of Eden? A phallic symbol. Moby Dick? A phallic symbol. The Washington Monument? A phallic symbol...
Republican Sen. William Cohen of Maine said in floor debate that he would vote against the president to uphold "America's symbol to a world that is struggling to throw off the chains of dictators...
...reviled patrician, suppressed playwright and jailed dissident, the symbol of his nation's revolution takes over as Czechoslovakia's President...