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Romance, exhilaration, self-importance these are what my labels symbolised and recalled to me.

Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

Mr Huhne was not shy of telling people that he thought Mr Clegg had overdone the expressions of amity with Mr Cameron, symbolised by their rose garden love-in, during the early weeks of the coalition.

Why more of the Lib Dems now want to be like Chris Huhne | Andrew Rawnsley 2012

Huffington symbolised a new media world: destroying the old order of "gatekeeping" print journalists and replacing it with an online ecology of interaction and participation.

Arianna Huffington: The cheque's in the Post 2011

Throughout history, butterflies have symbolised both renewal and the souls of the dead passing through purgatory.

Another view on Damien Hirst: The Souls Interview by Laura Barnett 2010

The raised fist with which Zabaleta greeted the final whistle symbolised the unyielding attitude brought to the match by the whole City team, who took any doubts that might have arisen in the past 10 days and ground them to dust.

Manchester City grind any doubts about their resolve into the dust | Richard Williams 2011

To me, he symbolised the optimism and humour of the people, despite the doom and gloom.

Photographer Shirley Baker's best shot 2012

She was seven minutes within the Olympic qualifying mark but her race symbolised "the crappy year" she endured in 2011.

Olympic Games 2012: loneliness of the long-distance Paula Radcliffe 2012

In the first phase, symbolised by the Nick and Dave press conference in the Downing Street garden in May last year, the two partners showed their determination to govern together in the national interest.

Rethink on managing coalition after Nick Clegg rejects No 10 report 2011

The tears welled when my youngest sister read a sweet goodbye section from The Hobbit, which perfectly symbolised her close bond with our dad.

'He wasn't the best dad to me, but …' 2012

At the same time there was escapism in an explosion of exuberant jazz culture and the emergence in 1938 of the figure of Superman, who no doubt symbolised both a yearning for happy simplicity and a desperate desire for an All-American hero to rescue the country.

US searches for a cultural response to economic hardship 2011