Sentence examples for shell of meaning from inspiring English sources

It meant "moon," four times, but it was as if she had cracked open the word, had thrown away the shell of meaning and had shown us the viscous stuff inside it.

Prepositions: the San Andreasfault of meaning.

This is a distinction drained of meaning.

She wiped them clean of meaning.

Concepts consist in relational structures of meaning.

There are two heroines here, the "Antigone who was" (Laura Butler) and the "Antigone who is" (Erica Berg), a creature who has, in the intervening centuries, become "the residue of a story" and "a shell penetrated by meaning".

In addition, more than one-third of the marine species living in the state's Puget Sound are calcifiers (shell-builders), meaning they could be especially sensitive to rising acidity.

Many of those assets are owned by shell companies with, according to the report, "an average of three layers" of ownership, meaning that the banks were an anonymous shell company that was owned by another anonymous shell company that was owned by a third anonymous shell company.

Eggers isn't conducting a literary shell game, like Wallace, in which the pebble of meaning is never quite revealed.

If you remember, a phrase and concern that echoed through America in the shell-shocked aftermath of 9/11 was: Is irony dead?" It seemed no one could imagine humor as a conduit of meaning anymore.

Causal Explanations; Models; Explanations of Meaning; Narratives.