Synecdochically

What has taken hold in the narrative is that real estate, more than any other asset has become the symbolic capital of capital, standing in synecdochically for the whole of the economy.

(2.) It is no coincidence, then, that the financial success of the film was guaranteed precisely by its nightclub sequence, which came, in the popular imagination, synecdochically to stand for the whole film, thanks also to the immense popularity of the baiao song created for it (El negro zumbon, by Armando Trovajoli).

Published three decades earlier, The End of Beauty (1987) ends, in "Imperialism," with a heart-wrenching dismissal of her mother's body as "a plot a / shape, one of the finished things, one of the // beauties" that she could further impugn by reducing synecdochically to "all / arms no face at all dear god, all arms--".

16); Scottish dialect poetry's own global spread is synecdochically represented by its presence in South Africa's Cape Colony in the 1820s, New Zealand's Otago province in the 1850s and 1860s, and Canada's Toronto region, also in the 1850s and 1860s.

Accordingly for White, "statistical representations are little more than projections of data construed in the mode of metonymy." (92) A basic line graph of an objects velocity, for instance, charts relations between points of data--no single data point is synecdochically representative of the whole graph--to display one axis (displacement) as a function of the other (time).

Peterson has well observed, is synecdochically defined by her drowning.

Though I generally agree with her argument, I would modify it slightly for in Larung, the rakyat do appear, but only in the capacity of Anson to represent them synecdochically. Thus, there is a displacement of the variety of the ordinary people with whom the activists work onto the token shoulders of the former Lubukrantau rubber farmer-turned-pirate.

If a relic is to signify synecdochically, as a dead part for the live whole in certain religious traditions, Ceylan adamantly refuses us this view, denying us its power.

The latter admires the semi-naked women on the exotic island as a "natural" source of heavenly pleasure (a sexist compliment in obvious contrast to the equally sexist condemnation of Western women's coyness), and views the rebellious male natives as a ferocious throng--a terrifying threat synecdochically condensed in the image of feral teeth (145).

The authorial surveying takes a specifically literary turn in synecdochically establishing death and the lack of compassion for one's fellow mortals as characteristic of London's heart of capitalism--foreshadowing Ralph Nickleby's heartlessness as well as (by way of the Newgate executions) his suicide by hanging and the criminal city business practices to which he owes allegiance.