Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

These fundamental similarities and differences provide a unifying theme, sometimes allowing the principles learned from studying one cell type to be extrapolated and generalized to other cell types.

The Four Noble Truths are regarded as central to the teachings of Buddhism ; they are said to provide a unifying theme, or conceptual framework, for all of Buddhist thought.

A unifying theme of this diverse movement is the femaleness of Deity ( as opposed and contrasted to a patriarchal God ).

Restaurants often specialize in certain types of food or present a certain unifying, and often entertaining, theme.

In most modern usages of spectrum there is a unifying theme between extremes at either end.

Some older usages of the word did not have a unifying theme, but they led to modern ones through a sequence of events set out below.

Modern usages in mathematics did evolve from a unifying theme, but this may be difficult to recognize.

These form an organizing principle and unifying theme for Asimov's robotic-based fiction, appearing in his Robot series, the stories linked to it, and his Lucky Starr series of young-adult fiction.

Divine retribution is a major theme in the Hellenic world view, providing the unifying theme of the tragedies Sophocles and many other literary works.

It does not show the abandoned region of " Landing " and early colonization, further to the southeast, whose rediscovery and resettlement is one unifying theme of the stories that follow Dragonquest in Pern historical time, perhaps one third of the series.

The unifying theme is an effort to curb the impact of corporate power on American democracy.

The series repackaged 14 randomly-chosen Italian sword-and-sandal films by unifying them with memorable title and end title theme songs and a standard voice-over intro relating the main hero in each film to Hercules any way they could.

The motif of sight and vision is as central to the poem as it is to modernism ; the omni-present character Tiresias acting as a unifying theme.

There is no single unifying theme in the geste of Doon de Mayence.

Circles and squares form the unifying theme of the interior design.

The use of the pictorial elements of painting such as line and color to convey an ultimate unifying theme or idea was regarded as the highest expression of art, and an idealism was adopted in art, whereby forms seen in nature would be generalized, and in turn subordinated to the unity of the artwork.

There is no consensus among reflexologists on how reflexology is supposed to work ; a unifying theme is the idea that areas on the foot correspond to areas of the body, and that by manipulating these one can improve health through one's qi.

He outlined the events in his Cronica in year to year accounts ; for this he has gained criticism over the years for writing in an episodic manner lacking a unifying theme or point of view.

Its unifying theme is the body, with its vagaries of illnesses and death, and includes essays by John Ravenal, David Levi Strauss and Anne Wilkes Tucker.

If there is a unifying theme that runs through most of managerial economics, it is the attempt to optimize business decisions given the firm's objectives and given constraints imposed by scarcity, for example through the use of operations research, mathematical programming, game theory for strategic decisions, and other computational methods.

However, there is no unifying or universal theme – Allmusic suggests that it " has no sonic signifiers ".

It was significantly revised by James Gamble Rogers in 1921 with more sympathy for the requirements of the city of New Haven, Connecticut, but Rogers kept the Collegiate Gothic unifying theme offered by Pope.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.

The one unifying note, if any, is sounded in the initial article entitled: `` How To Get Through The Day ''.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's role is strictly symbolic and unifying and the Communion's three international bodies are consultative and collaborative, their resolutions having no legal effect on the autonomous provinces of the Communion.

Perhaps every person involved should be judged separately on his or her own merits, and each costume or line is its own work of art ( with perhaps the director having the job of unifying them all ).

The Langlands program is a far-reaching web of these ideas of ' unifying conjectures ' that link different subfields of mathematics, e. g. number theory and representation theory of Lie groups ; some of these conjectures have since been proved.

This is because all opposites are manifestations of the single Tao, and are therefore not independent from one another, but rather a variation of the same unifying force throughout all of nature.

With such a broad denotation, there is no universal language or unifying institution for designers of all disciplines.

One unifying characteristic the membranes share is a lipid bilayer, with proteins attached to either side or traversing them.

The unifying stance for them is the idea of " creating and maintaining the freedom of individuals ".

The fascist view of a nation is of a single organic entity which binds people together by their ancestry and is a natural unifying force of people.

HT is unique from most other Islamist movements in that the party focuses not on local issues or on providing social services, but on unifying the Muslim world under its vision of a new Islamic caliphate spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to much of central and South Asia.

* 1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.

There is some disagreement concerning how best to describe the unifying themes, if there are any, that can be found in Machiavelli's works, especially in the two major political works, The Prince and Discourses.

Israel's definition of a nation state differs from other countries as its concept of a nation state is based on the Ethnoreligious group ( Judaism ) rather than solely on ethnicity, while the ancient mother language of the Jews, Hebrew, was revived as a unifying bond between them as a national and official language.

If by unifying you mean mixing, that is impossible, useless.

Chakotay's character is a unifying presence on Voyager.

This list of challenges is illustrative rather than exhaustive, and it focuses on the challenges to the " unifying logic " and " proof " layers of the Semantic Web.

The concept includes a number of interrelated ideas ; the unifying one is that tradition refers to beliefs, objects or customs performed or believed in in the past, originating in it, transmitted through time by being taught by one generation to the next, and are performed or believed in the present.

Swahili is seen as the unifying language of the country between different tribes, who each have their own tribal language ; English serves the purpose of providing Tanzanians with the ability to participate in the global economy and culture.

There is no single unifying belief that all Unitarian Universalists ( UUs ) hold, aside from complete and responsible freedom of speech, thought, belief, faith, and disposition.