Referendums, for example, can easily be instruments of authoritarian democracy when they seek to address major societal issues that are undefined and have multiple meanings (as, for example, what it means 'to leave' the EU).
That moment, which reveals language's multiple meanings as well as the bitter traces of women's experience, is typical of Ms. Djebar's work.
Before long, the missing sheep has invited as many multiple meanings as Melville's whale.
But as we watch multiple casts of dancers rehearsing, it's at least possible that Mr. Taylor is showing us how stories take on multiple meanings, as one turns into another that has to be rehearsed before it can be retold onstage.
It is critical for developing a complex sense of wonder, and an understanding of multiple meanings and irony, as well as for perceiving and manipulating the universal messages of line, color, time and space.
The translator concludes that creative resolution of these problems--the conveying of multiple and subsurface meanings as well as the effects of the original--gives an anglophone reading audience a better approximation of the author's true nature as a writer.
For example, words like bank, recover, and cool have multiple meanings even as members of the same lexical category; nominal compounds such as ice bucket, ice sculpture, olive oil, or baby oil leave unspecified the underlying relation between the nominals (such as constituency or purpose).
She shows how each play centers on a word or words conveying multiple meanings (such as "act," "pinch," "pregnant," "villain and clown"), and how each cluster has been shaped by early modern ideological formations.
Stand out," playing upon the multiple meanings of "pop," as in popping a pod into a washer or making colors pop with brightness.
The concatenation of freedom and reign (with its multiple meanings) can be seen as a wryly oxymoronic witticism worthy of Molière or Wilde.
While experts may be able to effortlessly differentiate such multiple meanings, the question remains as to whether the same may be said of students.
