A new library opened in 1974 and the building changed in function, but its stately presence remains the symbolic heart of campus.

In fact, Mayor Bradley, tall and rectitudinous (that has been his long-time persona) is now the symbolic heart of the whole mess.

Sometimes what seems to be central is really peripheral, and a throwaway plot point turns out to be the story's symbolic heart.

Today, despite having become extremely crowded and dilapidated , it still serves as the symbolic heart of metropolitan Delhi.

She believed we would face little resistance in the rest of Taglios once its symbolic heart had fallen.

How Lorraine is the symbolic heart of France and a stronghold of a romantic nationalism.

Mozart, after all, is the symbolic heart of this festival, Salzburg's reigning son.

It would always be the symbolic heart of the United States.

A huge shopping mall, the Galleria, is at Post Oak's center, and is in many ways its symbolic heart.

One of the largest military parades seen in decades is scheduled to pass through Revolution Square, the symbolic political heart of the country.