John Irving

Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

American Novelist

Jeremy Scott

I'm a populist. I'm the people's designer... It's important that there are price points that allow people in who maybe don't have the ability to have higher-ticket items - but they can still have something very emblematic of the collection.

American Designer

Greta Scacchi

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

Italian Actress

Laura Kelly

The Brownback-Colyer administration's lack of interest in ending the border war was emblematic of economic recklessness on their watch that extended well beyond a failed tax experiment.

American Politician

Kevin de Leon

President Trump's threat to weaponize federal funding is not only unconstitutional but emblematic of the cruelty he seeks to impose on our most vulnerable communities.

Scott Snyder

The thing that really interests me is characters facing challenges that are emblematic of the things they are most frightened of about themselves.

American Writer

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

British Writer

Steve Blank

Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

American Businessman

Zhao Wei

I want to make Chateau Monlot a grand wine, emblematic of the Bordeaux vineyards.

Chinese Actress

David Furnish

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

Canadian Director

Used for landmarks or symbols strongly associated with a particular area or culture.

Cultural Icon

Can represent abstract ideas, not just physical objects or places.

Abstract Representation

Sometimes used in a non-literal sense to signify an idea or trend.

Metaphorical Usage

Highlights an example that is very typical of a larger group or category.

Characteristic Example

Often used to describe actions or ideas that define a social or political movement.

Typifying a Movement

Can reflect underlying principles or philosophies of individuals or groups.

Ideological Reflection

 longing and this is really what's emblematic of this incredible place it feels like it has this great expansive spiritual nough stew it it feels like it has this great depth of antiquity to it and when you travel in this place you can't help but feel the great impermanence of it and you can't help

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 we've had to grapple with the fact that I'm very food-centric and he's just not. One time he said that he didn't want to be expected to make food for me, and I got really upset." That might seem like a weird reaction, but only if we don't recognize how it's emblematic of something larger,

What it takes to be...

 It's not the absurdity of bureaucracy alone, but the irony of the character's circular reasoning in reaction to it that is emblematic of Kafka's writing. His tragicomic stories act as a form of mythology for the modern industrial age, employing dream logic to explore the relationships

What makes something...

 it and only I had the memory of the healing process which took some time and was a little bit painful and those kinds of things adds up to the stuff that's really important to us today this scar goes with the collection of other scars on my body which are emblematic of the

Meet my robot...

 i don't know what they're proving it's brilliant we're trying to work it out at the minute the holy grail is a very iconic very emblematic species maybe not to the world but yes to this part of of argentina and patagonia it's an endemic species just to this province

Protecting the Hooded...

 left out of that conversation. But I believe it's every bit as iconic and emblematic of who we are as a country as any of these other wildernesses. It's just a different kind of wild. But I'm encouraged, because maybe we're finally starting to come around,

Stunning Photos of the...

 there's a war going on for a few well-connected people like mahmoud karzai foreign aid has been very lucrative he had access to millions of dollars in international loans you know he is very emblematic of this class some call them overnight millionaires of

Portraits of Afghanistan...

 characterized by the classic pattern that that's featured in many many southern towns in the United States there was a railroad track that ran between the black side of town and the white side of town as an act of separation that was emblematic of the

A blueprint for...

 And through them, there is big money in mathematics. And let me concede that when it comes to making money from the math, the Americans are by a long shot the world champions, with clever, emblematic billionaires and amazing, giant companies,

What's so sexy about...

 Somebody once said that nostalgia is the one utterly most useless human emotion -- so I think that’s a case for serious play. This is emblematic of it -- this is wing dining,

Emblematic

Representing something else as a sign, symbol or example.

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Characterizing, serving to display or typify.

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