In a sense, then, the hand represents art photography's greatest anxiety.

The red hand represents the island that is Ireland, the severed thumb our six north-eastern counties still under foreign rule.

Mr. Siodmak said the hand represented the character's conscience playing tricks on him.

There are three occasions in the gospels when the voice of God is heard, and the hand often represents this in visual art.

Here the hand represents the justice-dispensing power of God as being literally in the hands of the king.

And the hands in negative imprint could represent anything from an initiation ceremony to sympathetic magic.

The North-South hands represent a bidding problem for anyone.

The right hands of a man and a woman represent action in a coeducation environment.

The stars represent Hennessy cognac and the hand represents the drinker.

One hand represented him, I suppose, and the other represented me.