Of course, it is just one signpost, so proceed with caution.
One signpost of what is wrong with "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" and "Treasure Planet" and many of the most recent crop of hand-drawn movies is their rating: PG.
But with Beijingers driving off the lots with new cars nearly two thousand times a day — and coming to a halt a few feet away, one assumes — this is the right moment to point out that electric bikes just might be one signpost to salvation.
"It's one more signpost of how stressed the movie theater sector is and how worried lenders are," said Bishop Cheen, an analyst at First Union Securities in Charlotte, N.C.
A pair of pine seedlings were one such signpost, a circular opening in the canopy a second, a dark shadow beneath a holly shrub a third.
"So why not enhance the elements that are entertaining instead of sweeping them under the Astro Turf like the N.F.L. does?" One telling signpost in the XFL's rapid gestation is seen in a new commercial starring Dick Butkus, the epitome of the flesh-eating middle linebacker as a Chicago Bear during the 1960's and 1970's.
It should, perhaps, come as no surprise that an educational publisher would push the skills, vocabularies included, that best serve the capitalist system in which it is embedded, but this example is yet one more signpost in the process of denaturing human existence that has been going on since the industrialisation of the "developed" world.
And, on one of his epic criss-crossings, Rebus notes "signposts pointing him to places he would most likely never visit, such as the Waltzing Waters and Killiecrankie".
On one occasion, the developer, hounded by a news crew, picked up a signpost and chased after the reporters, swinging at them with the pole.
In one corner, a signpost designates the "Speed Desk".
