Sentence examples for meaning exemplified from inspiring English sources

It is distinctive of languages that linguistic units possess meaning by convention, and linguistic meaning is very different from what is called natural meaning, exemplified in statements such as "Those clouds mean rain" and "The fall in pressure means the valve is malfunctioning".

Adorno proposes a new method of examining history for meaning, exemplified by Minima Moralia, that dwells on individual experience and catastrophe.

However, the site's potency ensured an instability of meaning, exemplified by the so-called "curse of Tamerlane," an anti-Soviet ghost story that emerged to explain the Nazi invasion as a punishment for disturbing the tomb.

Berio described the main structure of Laborintus II as a "catalogue, in its medieval meaning" (exemplified by the Etymologies of Isodore of Seville), using Dante's themes of "memory, death and usury".

(I:4) What the exposure constitutes and how mothers dealt with it is organized into seven themes of meaning exemplified in quotes and followed by a conclusive interpretation.

Another major innovation introduced by cognitive linguistics is the development of an encyclopedic approach to word meaning, as exemplified by Frame Semantics (Fillmore 1975, 1982) and by the Theory of Domains (Langacker 1987).

The common examination of the event and tourism experience can reveal the attached meanings that exemplify the valued characteristics of a destination in the perceptions of tourists.

Sustainability, thus, has taken on a range of meanings that are exemplified by its many proposed definitions.

Appreciation for Mr. Hertzfeldt has to do with his absurdist take on the meaning of life as exemplified in the Bill trilogy, about an Average Joe coping with day-to-day randomness.

"Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order," Trilling wrote; he exemplified the meaning of the phrase "my station and its duties," and respected "the old bourgeois virtues".

In order not to forget that past, they said, a community continually retells its story, "its constitutive narrative," offering examples of the men and women who have embodied and exemplified the meaning of the community.