Helena is one of Shakespeare's eternal symbols of free-thinking, emancipated women; she will be rewarded with Bertram's true love.

Maggie is not merely an account of slum life as it is also meant as a representation of eternal symbols.

In effect, the troubles of the Arab presence were because the Arabs had diverged from their "eternal and perfect symbol", Islam.

Spartacus stands as an eternal symbol of how man must fight against political systems that oppress man's values:

As the ballet company performs in Athens, it is hardly by chance that the camera keeps wandering to the Parthenon, eternal symbol of art and beauty.

How the ring her lover had selected and which bore his initials had been put through her labia as an eternal symbol.

In the end, Captain America was never the eternal symbol - he was the publicity stunt who grew on the page into a failed but likable human being, and was therefore believably mortal.

That justice or law of nature is, unavoidably abiding, and for that reason, this eternal law-embodied symbol, Yama, is a god who equalises every thing through his power of bestowing death.

(Though some feared it would just be an eternal symbol of Komarr "getting screwed" by Barrayar.)

And what better place for Baltimore's mayor to use Ruth, a native son, as an eternal symbol for his city's poor to emulate (except perhaps for the drinking, smoking, carousing and womanizing).