11.   Skarsgard is almost too perfect a symbol of capitalist crassness, a straw piggy for the picture to play off.

12.   Some single entity leaps from the collective chaos and becomes, for me, the perfect symbol of how screwed up a culture we can be.

13.   The center is the perfect symbol for the failings of hospitals from one end of the country to the other.

14.   The corpulent, airborne gift-giver, in fact, is the perfect symbol of the complex multicultural history of Christmas itself.

15.   The Knicks are doomed to blow the series, a perfect symbol of their witless ways.

16.   The rounded figure with the quizzical face seems a perfect symbol for the show.

17.   Their quarterback is not only the cornerstone of the franchise, but the perfect symbol for the NFL.

18.   Perhaps even more fittingly, it came with a par after Brooks missed a short putt, a perfect symbol of the problems Britain-Ireland had all weekend.