Sentence examples for of signifying from inspiring English sources

As is evident, Sharpe's analysis of the types of universality for linguistic terms is based on two distinct but compatible criteria: (i) the existence of a common nature directly or indirectly signified by them, and (ii) the universal mode of signifying – the latter being more important than the former.

In "Django Unchained," as always in Quentin Tarantino's films, there's a lot of signifying going on.

But instead of signifying nothing, these shrill deceptions befoul the air.

Sachs gives David left uppercut the traditional way of signifying his promotion to junior manager.

Speculative grammarians took over Priscian grammar but relabeled the parts of speech to show their "modes of signifying".

Rome's refusal of the offer suggests that beyond its monetary value the tribute had the symbolic importance of signifying subjection.

In "The Given Day" Dennis Lehane uses "fierce-terrible" as a two-fisted Irish modifier, an archaic way of signifying tremendous angry power.

He has been accused of "starchitecture", of signifying little more than a frothy billow of hype and a couple of eye-catching baubles.

For some reason I spend another year contemplating various complicated ways of signifying 'Jesusness' before returning to the first, simple idea.

These errors, she found, had contributed to the confusion, by commentators on Hobbes, of two notions carefully distinguished by him — that of naming and that of signifying.

Besides simple signs for vocal inflection, it also had more elaborate, compound signs, such as capable of signifying degrees of loudness and changes of voice production.