You can spot them miles away, their ballistic origins metamorphosed by time into romantic symbols.

The moon figures in it as a romantic symbol, and "La Boheme" plays a running role as well.

The myths, he often said - whether as romantic symbols of life in harmony with nature or as political bludgeons in fostering guilt - were both shallow.

To accompany her proposal, she'd wanted a romantic symbol of some kind and had decided on a betrothal ring.

Musashino is a real place, a barren plain north of Tokyo; it was evoked in classical poetry as a romantic symbol of loneliness and isolation.

The setting sun, a romantic symbol, also evokes the passage of time.

Red roses, of course, through the centuries have always meant true love, a romantic symbol often found in novels, poetry, plays, sonnets, just about everything.

The highway and missions became for many a romantic symbol of an idyllic and peaceful past.

And there is no doubt that the romantic symbol of gold stars on the customs officers' new uniform is going to do anything to solve this problem...

I'll never be a clothes horse or romantic symbol.