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For while Whitman was possibly the most emblematically American poet that America ever produced, he presented himself as a relatively modest creature of the immediate here and now.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2020

The production design is sharply and emblematically detailed, and Rodriguez highlights it with a welcome graphic clarity.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 13, 2019

Quoting an 11th-century Chinese philosopher on its “radiant purity,” he wonders if early observers understood exactly how the lotus leaves could throw off the grime “and be seen, emblematically, as a kind of moral Teflon.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2016

The tough, round heart of North American Jewish cuisine, with European roots reaching back hundreds of years, the bagel was until the mid-1960s available only in cities with thriving Jewish neighborhoods, most emblematically New York.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2015

In 1 vol. demy 8vo, price 6s. each, cloth, emblematically gilt.

From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)