The perfect (and totally representative) emblem of the rancid sh*thole that is Britain.

They're a perfect, vivid emblem of what the white man has done to the black man in Africa.

That virulent white powder is the perfect emblem of Pandora and her box.

Even more than the fish tanks, this seemed like the perfect emblem for Ping's, an exotic package with thrilling secrets inside.

They were, surely, the perfect emblem of Emilia's need?

It is a perfect emblem for the people and the land.

He was hard-nosed, scrappy, unglamorous, a perfect emblem for the fed-up, underappreciated working class.

"A perfect emblem for our relationship, instructor mine."

It was, in short, a perfect emblem of British pride and power in the Victorian age.

There can be no more perfect emblem of the physical and political and theological scenes of human life.