Their open-planked carriages were empty, stationary symbols of an early-morning call for the drivers.

On Buffy, a cross is a weapon, but beyond that is an empty symbol.

The cross is now, to you, only an empty symbol, and it will not hold me.

By 1976, when this work was completed, such iconic images had become a joke, empty symbols of a future that never happened.

The building stands as an empty, eight-story symbol of the hazards of trying to ease security rules.

But that would be more difficult than covering empty symbols.

We are the land of the empty symbol.

The land of the empty symbol, he used to call it.

This is still an empty symbol on the part of the Union and an attempt to draw attention to itself.

So are grades an empty symbol, guilty by association but harmless in themselves?