Literary notes about mosaic (AI summary)
The word "mosaic" in literature has been employed with a rich variety of meanings and connotations. In some texts, it refers directly to the Biblical accounts and religious laws, evoking the ancient Mosaic tradition that underpins Judeo-Christian thought, as seen in references to the Mosaic account of creation and the Mosaic law itself ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). In other works, "mosaic" serves as a metaphor for composite beauty and complexity—a collection of disparate yet interconnected parts that together create a unified whole. This imagery appears when describing vivid scenes or patterns in art and daily life, from the fluid movements of characters ([6]) and social landscapes configured as disparate, segregated "little worlds" ([7]), to the physical beauty of ornate mosaic floors, tables, and portraits in architecture and decorative arts ([8], [9], [10]). Additionally, the term is utilized in technical or abstract settings, suggesting layered, structured systems in coding and design ([11]). Through these diverse applications, "mosaic" encapsulates the interplay of the sacred and the aesthetic, the literal and the metaphorical, highlighting the enduring literary appeal of its multifaceted imagery.
- 36 Near three thousand years passed away from the Mosaic account of the creation, till the Jews under a national delusion requested a king.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine - At least it must be so for the whole space of the succeeding year, if I be married; as yesterday, by the Mosaic law, you evidenced.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - ǽw ( ǽ ), law, divine law, the Mosaic law, marriage; Goth.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - It is from the Talmud, not from the Mosaic law, that the inhuman methods of Jewish slaughtering are derived.
— from Secret societies and subversive movements by Nesta Helen Webster - 559 The Mosaic law.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon - (Twining, receding, with interchanging hands the night hours link each each with arching arms in a mosaic of movements.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - The processes of segregation establish moral distances which make the city a mosaic of little worlds which touch but do not interpenetrate.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - And let this be enough to have said of Gaddo Gaddi with regard to work in mosaic.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) by Giorgio Vasari - Then he went on through richly-furnished chambers, over mosaic floors, amid gorgeous pictures.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen - "But I believe, all the same, that they've got some lovely things; why, they must have that famous mosaic table on which the Treaty of...
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - It was designed for the encoding of alphanumeric, alpha-mosaic, alpha-geometric and alpha-photographic constructs.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno