All 11 Uses of
virtual
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Virtually all major galleries employed red service lighting at night—strategically placed, low-level, noninvasive lights that enabled staff members to navigate hallways and yet kept the paintings in relative darkness to slow the fading effects of overexposure to light.†
Chpt 4
- The five-pointed star was now a virtual cliché in Satanic serial killer movies, usually scrawled on the wall of some Satanist's apartment along with other alleged demonic symbology.†
Chpt 6
- The extra surveillance wiring in the walls made it virtually impossible to get a carrier unless you stepped out into the hall.†
Chpt 29-30 *
- 1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21 When the Fibonacci sequence was melded into a single ten-digit number, it became virtually unrecognizable.†
Chpt 43-44
- And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual—the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of "God-eating"—were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions."†
Chpt 55-56
- The Grail is literally the ancient symbol for womanhood, and the Holy Grail represents the sacred feminine and the goddess, which of course has now been lost, virtually eliminated by the Church.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Because Jesus was a Jew," Langdon said, taking over while Teabing searched for his book, "and the social decorum during that time virtually forbid a Jewish man to be unmarried.†
Chpt 57-58
- Moreover, it was virtually guaranteed that any book on goddess worship would have to mention the Priory of Sion.†
Chpt 67-68
- Langdon had been so eager to peruse some of the great thinker's ideas that he had forgotten one of the man's numerous artistic talents was an ability to write in a mirrored script that was virtually illegible to anyone other than himself.†
Chpt 71-72
- In fact, virtually every Masonic temple in the world has two pillars like these.†
Chpt 103-104
- The sénéchaux were traditionally men—the guardians—and yet women held far more honored status within the Priory and could ascend to the highest post from virtually any rank.†
Chpt 105
Definition:
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(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense