If we couldn't look back, the present would be empty, a recurring moment without significance.
Historian Louis Green writes that the Cronica was written with three general assumptions about morality which shaped the organization of the work, "[channeling] events into recurring patterns of significance".
For one, it tends to exaggerate the significance of recurring themes and incidents.
20 'Gastrointestinal problems' were defined as recurring symptoms of sufficient significance to alter lifestyle or require chronic treatment according to Stone et al's 21 report, and 'quality of relationships' (poor, medium, good) was self-assessed.
Observations, anecdotes and memories free-float in the narrator's nervous imagination; signs and symbols, like the doppelganger and the huntsman, dates and gestures, recur with secret significance - or not - from which the reader is deliberately excluded..
Microcosm and macrocosm--his couple's utterances and nudity have both theological and semiological significance ("nature" and "metaphor" are recurring titles for sequences).
In July, 2010, James Wood penned a Critic at Large which examined the significance of Mitchell's intricate and recurring narratives.
Step 2. In Clerks, there's a special, NSFW significance to the number 37 that's kind of a recurring joke.
He then endorsed Mr. Steele, which had ideological significance: Mr. Blackwell was among the most conservative candidates in the race, and there were recurring concerns among some conservatives about Mr. Steele's convictions.
Altogether, the high topological significance of the pattern instances in Figure 5 seems to reflect the importance of the few recurring interactions between these essential genes for E. coli adequately.
