In The Modern World
The thunderbolt or lightning bolt continues into the modern world as a prominent symbol; it has entered modern heraldry and military iconography.
- In iconography
- The thunderbolt is used as an electrical symbol.
- The thunderbolt is also used to separate the letters "AC" and "DC" in the name of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC.
- In fiction
- The thunderbolt is the symbol for the DC Comics characters Captain Marvel and the Flash.
- In Harry Potter, the thunderbolt (or lightning bolt) is Harry's forehead scar.
- In the novel The Godfather, "being hit with the thunderbolt" is a Sicilian expression referring to a man being spellbound at the sight of a beautiful woman. The novel's emerging main character is affected in this fashion and eventually marries a woman whose appearance initially hit him like a thunderbolt.
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Famous quotes containing the words modern world, modern and/or world:
“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
“Sir Walter Raleigh might well be studied, if only for the excellence of his style, for he is remarkable in the midst of so many masters. There is a natural emphasis in his style, like a man’s tread, and a breathing space between the sentences, which the best of modern writing does not furnish. His chapters are like English parks, or say rather like a Western forest, where the larger growth keeps down the underwood, and one may ride on horseback through the openings.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)