Word: iconic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Willey, an “icon of the discipline,” was the “epitome of the old style Harvard professor,” Fash said...
...task to make the author of the dictum, “early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise,” into someone Americans of all shapes and sizes would care to read about. But Brands felt he could remake Franklin into an icon, using the man’s life to tell the story of American identity...
...risk of derailing this love-fest, it is important to recognize that Elvis himself was in large part responsible for his fall from rebellious icon to an under-appreciated caricature. John Lennon once said that “Elvis died the day he went into the army.” Perhaps it would be more precise to say “Elvis died the day he went mainstream.” As money poured in from all directions, Elvis’ “negro singing” and hip-gyrations became safe. No longer perceived...
...weightless; fire fighters could not bear to look down at the children in their arms. "Find out who did this," one told Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. "All that I have found are a baby's finger and an American flag." That may turn out to be a poignant, gruesome icon. How easy it was to assume that the attack must have come from outside. America may no longer be safe from imported terrorism, but we weren't supposed to grow it here at home...
...when the kid wizards, Palom and Porom, turned themselves to stone to save their comrades in Squaresoft’s Final Fantasy II for Super Nintendo. The characters were represented by icons 16 pixels wide, with a special icon for every possible combination of poisoned, miniaturized, or turned into a frog. (In this game, turning your opponent into a poisoned, miniaturized frog was a major tactical coup.) Dialogue, like the martyrs’ fateful incantation, “Stone!”, appeared in poorly translated English in little blue text boxes...