Sentence examples for an empty signifier from inspiring English sources

It is an empty signifier.

I am not among those who think that Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" is an "empty signifier".

Is it just an empty signifier, like "downtown" when artists have fled Lower Manhattan for Brooklyn and Queens?

The slogan is an empty signifier, as the literary theorists would say, and what a good thing that is for a company like General Mills.

It has also been, for more than a century, what literary theorists call an "empty signifier" — a symbol that can stand for anything.

Here, though, much like the Louis Vuitton bag that the killer hauls around and the Cadillac he drives, Picasso is an empty signifier, suggestive of nothing beyond weird product placement and bankrupt thinking.

She needs to turn herself into a kind of empty signifier, distill everything that voters are hopeful for and everything they're dissatisfied with until it becomes synonymous with her own name.

Yes, people have skull tattoos but skulls have become fetishized, just another empty signifier ready to be reified and profited from, as Damien Hirst so expensively proved.

Somehow, Enoch's wife must have convinced herself that the words she was repeating were empty signifiers.

The new-wave-ish "Magic," featuring Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, is better, but Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Williams come off as empty signifiers, useful mostly for shock value.

For all their exploded bone and ravaged pulp, their trickles and rivulets of blood, the men in this film aren't as much bodies as beautiful, empty signifiers.