Sentence examples for be given meaning from inspiring English sources

But if "About Schimdt" is a story of frustration and futility, it is also a comedy of unexpected fulfillment, about the serendipitous ways that life can be given meaning.

It suggests the idea that the deaths of these 4,000 can somehow be given meaning through military victory, that their sacrifice can be redeemed through the destruction of our enemies.

She seems primarily to be consumed with fulfilling a task for a couple whose presence also mutates: Sometimes they seem to want her to become impregnated for them, other times to be a sexual companion, and yet other times to function as a kind of errand-person, meant to wander from room to room waiting to be given meaning.

"Of course, words are given meaning by context, and context includes the purpose of the text".

Our lives are given meaning by the service we supply to the nation.

It's our need to fill up space with meaning that makes us rush into verbal voids, supplying words that have not yet been given meaning with meanings that are always seeking new words.

It was Alan Opie, in the role of Germont père, who showed suppleness: his words were given meaning and his voice was full of feeling.

It draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault's writings on sexuality and his notion that bodies are given meaning by discourse and social structures of knowledge and power.

Seeing race as connected only with the bogus science behind the Holocaust denies the myriad ways in which race is given meaning.

Semantic Web, extension of the World Wide Web (WWW) in which data are given meaning (semantics) to enable computers to look up and "reason" in response to user searches.

In some cases, millions of pounds of public money has been spent before planning permission is given, meaning, say green belt campaigners, pressure is put on councils to approve applications or risk wasting taxpayer funds.