His main poetic themes in the early phase are love and flower, as he merges the abstract quality of love with the concrete poetic symbol of flowers.

These pretty pictures and bright medallions were not "money"; they were concrete symbols for an abstract idea which spread all through these people, all through their world.

It stood as a concrete symbol of the very essence of their vocation: to be fully at the service of those in need in "the Lord's vineyard."

His figure of Bonaparte is heroic and idealized but it lacks the concrete symbols of allegorical painting.

Above him, the concrete symbol of hinterland justice broke op .

The patient-controlled analgesia pump is a concrete symbol of how philosophies have changed.

Building an army is a long-term process requiring discipline and money and is viewed as a concrete symbol of the promise of sovereignty.

But the $50 million incentive was the most concrete symbol of the administration's interest in the deal.

The dismantling of the Berlin Wall - that stark, concrete symbol of a world divided into hostile camps - is such a defining moment.

"Would you feel more comfortable with some concrete symbols of what we're doing, or not?"