It signified everything that shunned the mediocrity and rightwing reactionary bullshit of the suburbs.
As used, it is a closure principle, that a proposition signifies everything which follows from what it signifies.
From this univocal concept of being, which signifies some determinate intelligible content distinct from other intelligible contents, he distinguishes an all-encompassing notion of being which signifies "everything positive which is outside of nothing, whether it is real being, or being in the mind, whether categorical, reducible to categories, or outside of all categories".
"To me, Ellis Island signifies everything the U.S. has always stood for," says Neubauer in a still-accented English.
Trump signifies everything Romney presumably doesn't want people to associate with himself -- conspicuous wealth, arrogance, hubris, and a distinct preference for money over all other human values.
It can signify everything from, "I deeply regret having wronged you," to "I deeply regret that you're a moron who hasn't grasped the simple fact that you shouldn't stand on the left side of the escalator". But even when sorry is simply used as a civil stand-in for "get out of my way" rather than a genuine declaration of remorse, frequent apologising is a positive thing.
"It's one person that you pick out from a crowd who's supposed to signify everything that for you is changing in the world.
And Muse, of course, want their music to signify everything.
To anthropologists and psychologists, the corrida has signified everything from a confrontation between culture and nature to a symbolic exposition of gender, sexual, or filial relations.
During the Cold War, "the West" was a ubiquitous phrase, signifying everything from NATO to the Enlightenment, from the Christian faith to the free market.
Keywords included "innovation", "interconnection", and of course "Zuckerberg", the Facebook CEO, who has appeared with Obama on so many occasions and whose company is often used as shorthand by Democrats to signify everything that is wonderful about our era.
