LIKE many objects of significance, it didn't look like much.
It took Cogswell, himself a former saxophone player, three years to catalogue the house's contents, which included six hundred and fifty reels of tape, five thousand photographs, eighty-five scrapbooks, a hundred and twenty gold records and awards, and five gold-plated trumpets, just to name the objects of significance, which are now in the Louis Armstrong Archives, at Queens College.
"It is a historical object of great significance," Mr. November said.
In front of the boxes on the table lies a golden staff, seemingly an object of some significance.
Presumably it was a child's plaything, but it could also have been an object of ritual significance.
Byrne shirks chronological constraints, beginning each chapter with an object of special significance in the author's life — a shawl, a wooden lap desk — on the premise that much of Austen's fiction was "made real by a few carefully chosen things".
There are also cases in which the religious experience just is an ordinary perception, but the physical object is itself the object of religious significance.
The Fairfield Historical Society displays decorative objects of local significance.
The repatriation act is intended to help American Indians reclaim burial and religious items and other objects of enduring significance that were taken from reservations when the tribes were suffering under resettlement, poverty and military control.
It's a style that suggests how memory seldom paints a complete portrait of the places you have known, but focuses instead on objects of totemic significance, or if you will (Tom will), symbols.
