Sentence examples similar to a signifier of knowledge from inspiring English sources

The keffiyeh, once a signifier of solidarity with Palestine, now signifies nothing but cool.

It is always a signifier of something, scripted and coded.

It was a signifier of new and disturbing times.

And as much as of nationality, perhaps, it is a signifier of (working) class.

It does not have to be a signifier of incompetence, indolence and apathy.

In his eyes, homosexuality is "pedophilia," and it is a signifier of a weak state.

Moving is hard enough without it also being a signifier of old age.

Hence the ludicrous spectacle of the Tories offering gay marriage as a signifier of modernity.

Risk is the oxygen of investment, and the ability to take a lot of risk is a signifier of prestige.

The term began as a signifier of platonic love, not romance.

But for Ellin she seems merely a symbol — not even an object of desire but a signifier of it.