Voorbeelden van hieroglyph

• In our purely historical world, even laws are mere hieroglyphs in the sand.

• Literature co-operated as well: poems were set up in altars and hieroglyphs in pyramids.

• In addition, as stated earlier, the hieroglyphs on the reverse of the shell are upside down when the front of the shell is turned around.

• Utilization of hieroglyphs thus enabled the artist to represent more clearly the complex simultaneity of nature.

• The chiselled, unperturbed musical themes of the ballet are heard as distinct events, elements of an abstract design that could very easily be a full-fledged text as indecipherable as hieroglyphs.

• Symbols function as hieroglyphs of the interpenetration of divinity and the world, but symbols can never be exhaustively decoded or understood.

• All too often, interpreters of culture are hobbled by the formidable mystique of music as a foreign language, of the score as hieroglyph, of musical form as technical and esoteric.

• There are hieroglyphs printed on a passport which are not adequately explained to the bearer.