"icon" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His performance in the 2001 Little League World Series made him an unlikely national icon.
- Robert Burns makes an unlikely national icon, given his ambivalence about Scotland and Scottishness.
- Of course, Mr. Rzepski (pronounced szep-ski) was not doing himself any favors by choosing as the center of his presentation an unlikely icon not destined to seduce the fashion pack.
- A shy, ascetic man, Buchi is an unlikely icon for the glitzy new entrepreneurial class his policies have spawned.
- In the magazine this week, I profile Han Han, the blogger, novelist, and magazine-cover-model who, at age twenty-eight, is one of the most unlikely icons in Chinese public life.
- On an unlikely literary icon: Miss Piggy.
- The legend itself inspired considerable passion in the painting's audiences, some of whom (including one of Freud's patients) were transported to a state of religious ecstasy by the sight of it, and created of the painting an unlikely icon of romanticism.
- In effect, the Communist Party abandoned Mr. Zhao and the opposition adopted him, making him an unlikely icon of resistance.
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