His starting point for La Veillée was Maurice Maeterlinck's loopy beekeeping book, The Life of Bees, in which the author attributes a cosmic significance to his favourite insect.
Other writers here say Mr. McGahern changed their perceptions of what could be done in Irish writing because his work attributed a momentous significance to ordinary existence here for the first time.
Law of course is not alone in attributing a special significance to precedent.
"I would not attribute any significance in those findings," he said.
If we attribute any significance to human existence, significance in the "larger scheme of things," then surely any thoughtful person will consider for a moment that all accomplishments of humankind are destined to cease to exist by the simple physical reality of the evolving nature of the cosmos.
Second, a study investigating the marginal impact of problem severity by domain concluded that, compared to respondents who were valuing hypothetical states, those valuing the states which they were actually experiencing attributed a far lower significance to the capacity for self-care [ 29].
At the same time, Graham devotes many pages to some of Ortega's least convincing ideas, such as the notion of the biographical ages of man (which attributes a special, but unexplained, significance to the twenty-sixth and fifty-first years of life).
Enormous valuations may be given when consumers attribute symbolic significance to or derive a "warm glow" from favouring a particular ecosystem.
To attribute constitutional significance to this figure, moreover, would lead to the absurd result that a neutral school-choice program might be permissible in some parts of Ohio, such as Columbus, where a lower percentage of private schools are religious schools.
Ha ha! It's such a fool's errand to attribute so much significance to a relatively new band.
