Sentence examples for no longer signify from inspiring English sources

With the rise of advanced statistics and more nuanced ways to determine a hitter's value, the batting crown may no longer signify the undisputed best hitter in the league.

The book's narration is shared by Alistair; Colin, a writer for whom blank white sheets no longer signify "wide-open highways"; and Finn, who works for a reality-TV show and specializes in "massaging the order in which certain events happen".

Retention of the ability to recognise pheromone components that no longer signify conspecific females may assist in the maintenance of reproductive isolation of species.

Whether O'Donnell believed him or not no longer signified, however.

This industry is usually called "tech," but the term no longer signifies what it used to.

As a result, a blue or red shirt no longer signifies gang membership in the way that it used to.

But suddenly the comic became veiled by excitement: the bowler hat no longer signified a joke; it signified violence; violence against Sabina, against her dignity as a woman.

All too often, though, the wine fell flat, to the point where the word Valpolicella no longer signified a supple, inexpensive, easy-to-enjoy wine but became synonymous with thin, mass-produced wine of little character.

Beginning in the mid-nineties, Daft Punk brought together the key components that everyone else is still working with: the disco beat that no longer signified disco; the tones and the wider emotional palette of eighties synthesizers; and a move toward easy pleasures that lacked the self-seriousness of European artists, such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, who led the electronic vanguard at that time.

Of course, in this new sense, the term "subject-object" no longer signifies a privileged agent becoming self-conscious, but only the interdependence of subjectivity and objectivity in a specific sphere of experience.

Maybe that's why there's so much male full frontal in The Leftovers: women's bodies are so laid bare, sexualized, and objectified at every turn that the naked female form no longer signifies the kind of vulnerability that being naked can bring with it.