Sentence examples for being signified from inspiring English sources

From the end of the last century, we find a magazine called Success, which posed Edison in his workshop, as if casually reading; success was being signified not only by a man's accomplishments but also by the mere reproduction of his face on the magazine's cover, a process that rapidly became self-generating.

This definition, as it was commonly interpreted, highlights an important metaphysical or functional role that relations must play: in addition to being signified by relative terms, they are what actually serve to relate two (or more) things—or to put the point in slightly different terms, they are that in virtue of which such things are related.

The metaphysical debate over the real distinction of essence and existence from this point of view is nothing but the issue whether the individualized common nature signified by the definition of a thing is the same as the act of being signified by the verb 'is' in the same thing.

Again the ingenuity is in the complicated mix that makes it near impossible to determine when it is a man and when it is a woman being signified and signifying.

Although Gober has made a series of work with children's shoes and childlike simulated legs that suggest disturbing, even criminal, scenarios, they retain enough ambiguity to prompt us to question whether the dark thoughts aren't being projected onto the work by we, the viewers, rather than being signified by the artist.

What is signified by their eventual bustedness?

Folders are signified by the folder icon to the left.

The problem is signified by the "but", stated or implicit.

What was to be signified, and by what forms?

Its public importance was signified by the appointment of Judge Peter Thornton QC as assistant deputy coroner.

It is true that nothing in particular is signified by this fact.