It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.

The one- or two-digit number of the index word or electronic switch was used in the operand of a symbolic machine instruction to specify indexing or as a parameter which is always an index word or electronic switch, e.g., 3.

If the symbolic name or actual address of an index word or electronic switch appears or is included in the operand of an XRELEASE or SRELEASE statement ( see page 101 ), the specified index word or electronic switch will again be made available, regardless of the method by which it was reserved.

This was perhaps symbolic of the jazz of the evening -- flashes in the distance, but no storm.

Her symbolic role in this unique mission to the Spanish Court was intended to emphasize the international links which were forged by her 16th-century ancestor, Ieyasu Tokugawa.

Drexler was thereafter moved to the purely symbolic position of honorary president, and left the Party in 1923.

What the authorities never seemed to grasp was that to a significant group of Americans, Capone was symbolic of a populist hero.

Prophetic gestures, also known as sign-acts or symbolic actions, was a form of communication in which a message was delivered by performing symbolic actions.

However, it is probable that this was again a symbolic act, in which Hosea divorced Gomer for infidelity, and used the occasion to preach the message of God's rejection of the Northern Kingdom.

" This is very symbolic showing that Nineveh was known for being a city full of prostitutes.

The five peaks of Mount Meru were taken to exhibit this arrangement, and Khmer temples was arranged accordingly in order to convey a symbolic identification with the sacred mountain.

By Stalin's death in 1953, the Central Committee had become largely a symbolic organ, which was responsible to the Politburo, and not the other way around.

The first calculator capable of symbolic computation was the HP-28C, released in 1987.

Bahram II's gifts were widely recognized as symbolic of a victory in the ongoing conflict with Persia ; Diocletian was hailed as the " founder of eternal peace ".

David was enlisted by the Society of Friends of the Constitution, the body that would eventually form the Jacobins, to enshrine this symbolic event.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

The unleavened bread, or matzoh, also underscores the symbolic belief attributed to Christ's breaking the matzoh and saying that it was his body.

The development of expert systems was aided by the development of the symbolic processing languages Lisp and Prolog.

His black skin was symbolic of the color of mummified flesh and the fertile black soil that Egyptians saw as a symbol of resurrection.

This was done at a formal and symbolic ceremony called a commendation ceremony, which was composed of the two-part act of homage and oath of fealty.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

For Rachel, conceded to be the prettiest of the Szold girls -- and she did make a pretty picture sitting in the grape-arbor strumming her guitar and singing in her silvery tones -- there was no particular March counterpart ; ;

`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

People think the dress in the picture was lengthened by an artist much later on.

Blenheim was followed in rapid succession by Ramillies And The Union With Scotland and by The Peace And The Protestant Succession, the three forming together a detailed picture of England under Queen Anne.

He was always concerned with life, and he tried to picture it whole ; ;

This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

Do you get the picture of the kind of fellow he was ''??

As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.

My heart was not in it, but, oddly enough, it remains the most financially successful picture of my career.

In the first picture ( 9a ) the knife is just beginning to advance into the inclined surface which was left from the previous chip formation.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

but for all his air of affluence, who could tell what his private financial picture was??

`` I was hired to take a picture.

We've got to assume they'll decide he was murdered and we've got to keep the picture consistent.

In Laos, the picture was almost equally bad.

Now this 1920 view of the atom was on the whole a discouraging picture.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

On it was a big picture of a dog's head and the words " Dog Cookies.