"Sometimes, my dear," he said sweetly, "destiny requires no outward symbol."

The beard is an outward symbol of that boundary, a distancing technique.

The metal ring is only an outward symbol of the power you now contain.

Nor did Morgan know how much the outward symbols of mourning reflected the true extent of the king's grief.

Whitehead was referring to an order by military leaders that soldiers not wear religious jewelry or other outward symbols of their faith.

The city was indeed the most striking outward symbol of the industrial world, apart from the railway itself.

One outward symbol of this was the adoption of distinctive clerical dress.

They are usually concerned solely with arrogating to their founders the outward symbols of statehood.

These ordinances are outward symbols, teaching of the inner life, the faith, and the hope of believers.

But these were only outward symbols of Sarina's formidableness.