The song 666 ʇ seems to be some sort of reference to Satan but what does it all mean?
It's the sort of reference dropped in as a wink, from connoisseur to connoisseur, insider to insider.
The prisoners are used as a sort of reference work, as a means of checking new names that come up in the hearings, or as a catalyst toward achieving a better understanding of how fundamentalists think.
"We had noticed a growing number of readers make some sort of reference to the Guardian Weekly community and how, through correspondence with the paper, they felt connected to like-minded thinkers, however spread out they may be," she says.
Today, a hotel's "rack rate," the retail price listed for a given room, is just "a sort of reference point," said Sherri Kimes, a professor at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
The other, Greenberg's, posited an inevitability of formal development in painting, through progressive styles that were ever more attuned to the medium's material givens of flatness and pigmentation and ever more averse to any sort of reference or illusion.
This book terrified me – I would only read it sitting in broad daylight outside the house, with the sun beating reassuringly on my back – and, because of some sort of reference in the story to evil spirits using portals to get at the living, I developed a superstition about not sleeping with drawers or cupboard doors open.
There's not a lot of poetry, but a beat-up copy of "The Norton Anthology of Poetry" has been there for quite a long time, and I like that it remains as some sort of reference manual for the people waiting in line to use the restroom.
Exemplification the sort of reference typical, for instance, of tailors' swatches requires possession.
Indeed, this sort of reference is even essential in some cases (professorships in Germany, many top international jobs).
