So, it is not just words that the Jews have carried with them in the Diaspora, but a continual search for meaning, an ability to turn ideas into a dynamic, evolving plan for living in any and all circumstances.
This Universal Community, which constitutes reality, develops greater understanding over time through its members' continual development of the meaning of signs.
Even Pinker, a descriptivist, goes along with me part way on that: "The most consistently respected meaning difference between continual and continuous," he notes, "is that continuous can be used for spatial as well as temporal continuity (a continuous line of trees'), whereas continual can be used only for temporal continuity.
A divorced mother of two, who visits her family in Brittany for a summer holiday, Léna does continual battle with well-meaning relatives who bombard her with unsolicited, nagging criticism.
Each year, for the past four and a half years, her contracts as a lecturer at two universities have been renewed only days before the start of the academic year, meaning she has continual breaks in employment.
Each painting feels like a new adventure in shape, space, color and suggested meaning, and a continual joke on Modernist seriousness that is also serious, most of all in its visual richness and telling surface variations.
Beyond the impossibility of limiting semiosis in this way, it speaks to the ongoing inability of biomedicine to deal with meaning; that is, its continual turn away from illness in favour of disease (Kleinman, 1988).
What I have a small issue with is when there's no meaning or message whatsoever, to the continual killing of human enemies.
Continue to seek out a continual future.
Hrabal's own description of his style was "palavering" - a way of narrating a story, of inventing a narrator, in a process of continual renewal: which seemed to be constantly deferring its meaning.
