The factory-made watch is "a talisman" (559) and not a reification that conceals its embedded abstractions.
The talisman which he claimed to have lost is none other than the medal which would permit one to recognise the goddess.
It was a talisman of the encounter between the noble and the common, or indeed, between the divine and the human.
The purchase price was double the open market value of the house, thus making this trifling episode a talisman for the squire's eagerness to control all that he surveyed.
The road map is no magical talisman, but previous talks have also shown how close the two parties can become.
They are thinking that there is a kind of talisman, a kind of magic, in industrialisation.
In our debates retrospectivity has become a kind of talisman, but the point can be overplayed.
We wish to provide a talisman to guide those involved in promoting enjoyment of the parks.
