Sentence examples for shifting meaning from inspiring English sources

Privacy, they argued, hadn't always been necessary; it had become necessary — because of the shifting meaning and nature of publicity.

Privacy, they argued, hadn't always been necessary; it had become necessary because of the shifting meaning and nature of publicity.

As the shifting meaning of the term Anglo-Irish literature during the 20th century demonstrates, there is disagreement about how to characterize 18th-century Irish writing in English.

Several years ago, I wrote a song about Arlington, performed by the band I'm in, Uncle Wade (I'm not sure I could be a journalist if I didn't have music, too): Below there's more background on the song and the video, shot by Craig Duff for The Times, along with some reflections on the shifting meaning of security on a shrinking, finite planet.

Urban expansion is patterned by the subtle rhythms of tyrannical time-planning, by man machine interface, and by the shifting meaning of physical and geographical boundaries.

Tony Thorne, a linguist and slang specialist at King's College London, said this type of reversal can be a very effective means of shifting meanings and perceptions associated with certain language.

For Braudy, "the shifting meanings of what it means to be a man seem more like a phantasmagoria of shapes that appear only to vanish".

Even the museum's Bosnian name, Zemaljski Muzej, has shifting meanings.

D. L. Sheth, another scholar at the center, discusses the shifting meanings of caste.

But the confirmation disputes trace their roots to the Constitution itself, and to the shifting meanings of the senators' obligation to advise and consent to the President's choices of judges.

Mr. Kimmelman makes a thoughtful and persuasive case that ancient art contains multiple and shifting meanings and belongs to the world, not the current occupants of the country it came from.