“An icon to symbolize the inner head is placed in a house or shrine and is consulted before any new vital task is undertaken.”

“An international pioneer for women's professional surfing, she became an icon of courage and strength in her native Hawaii.”

“The tour catapulted Madonna into a very public eye, and it was also during this period that she started to become a sort of icon for fans of her pop music.”

“Iconography as the study of representation, also called iconology, entered mainstream academia at the beginning of the twentieth century.”

“In iconology, creating becomes a liturgical offering of works of art to God, but the artwork offered is not separate from its author.”

“Bustling iconology notwithstanding, Ji's pictures are not exclusively literary or even representational.”

“Nevertheless, there is an inverse correlation between the lexical expansion of a language and the iconicity of its grammar.”

“Zidane's iconicity is not just about economic fetishism that marks the celebrity stature of most sporting icons of Western capitalist countries.”

“In 1999 she chose to lend her hard-earned, carefully honed iconicity to Max Factor.”

“Along the streets lamps were covered in flowers, icons and hand-written messages, stuck up with coloured candle wax.”

“Some are encrusted with costume jewelry, evoking the roughly bejeweled icons of Byzantium.”

“To spot the visual icons of the future, we need to understand why certain images were accorded that status in the past.”