Sentences with phrase «symbolic number»

Further, this conceit brings to mind the use of symbolic numbers and primitive shapes used by Abstract Expressionists from Adolf Gottlieb to Robert Motherwell.

That's a very symbolic number, but however can be a significant milestone for the iPhone maker that looks to figure out what a subsequent - era smartphone appears like.

Since three is not a rounding - off number, as Carl Jung has reminded us, three is the proper symbolic number for this group; for they and their task are by no means rounded off.

Such symbolic numbers designate not only the simultaneous presence of the members in the group at a given time but also the duration in time of the groupings.

His literary companions, in particular Charles Williams, might have told him that this number, like so many in Scripture, is conventional; but of symbolic numbers, Lewis shows no inkling.

Matthew may have discerned a symbolic meaning to the two events: the first is on Jewish soil, and twelve baskets of food are left over (symbolic number?).

They are all filled, and there are twelve (symbolic number?)

example, the symbolic number 23 comes about,

Its shape is octagonal, as eight is a symbolic number in Christianity, representing the endless day when Jesus was said to be resurrected.

So I decided to give them a generic title, A Thousand Names, implying infinity, a thousand being a symbolic number.