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The Lost Symbol
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- Melencolia I consisted of a brooding figure with giant wings, seated in front of a stone building, surrounded by the most disparate and bizarre collection of objects imaginable—measuring scales, an emaciated dog, carpenter's tools, an hourglass, various geometric solids, a hanging bell, a putto, a blade, a ladder.†
Chpt 67-68disparate = very different
- The Agency was currently running a new piece of "collaborative integration" software designed to provide real-time alerts to disparate CIA departments when they happened to be processing related data fields.†
Chpt 87-88 *
- Unfortunately, the assortment seemed so disparate that he could not even imagine where to begin.†
Chpt 101-102
- "Timing aside," Solomon said, "I find it wondrous to note that throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing—that a great enlightenment is coming.†
Chpt 111-112
- Langdon had no idea whatsoever what these seven disparate symbols could possibly mean, and he was damned sure they were not engraved anywhere in the nation's capital ....particularly on a giant stone over a staircase.†
Chpt 125-126
Definitions:
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(1)
(disparate) very different -- often referring to a collection of very different elements such as a group of very different people
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)