The contest was not without meaning for a population suffering from runaway inflation, double-digit unemployment and a stifling political and social atmosphere, to say nothing of international isolation and the burdensome economic sanctions that have been imposed on them.
"It's called 'lysis from without,' meaning lysis without phage infection," Nelson explains.
The standard objection to this rationale is that a finite condition could be meaningful without obtaining its meaning from another meaningful condition; perhaps it could be meaningful in itself, or obtain its meaning by being related to something beautiful, autonomous or otherwise valuable for its own sake but not meaningful (Thomson 2003, 25 26, 48).
Even as she contemplates the future, Miller flashes us back to her base: as the child of a semi-crazed manic-depressive and, later, as a footloose teen (played by Blake Lively), a party girl who drifts into the orbit of rich, powerful Herb Lee at his Hamptons beach house one summer and beguiles him away from his wife without meaning to.
The photographs appear without captions and acquire meaning from the surrounding text.
THUMP spoke to senior financial analyst Richard Tullo of Albert Fried and Company over the phone, and he suggested that these relatively small percentages were hard to decipher meaning from without more extensive context than the report provides.
Enigmatic and complicated, she goes from being powerless to immensely powerful, without meaning to.
But local observers will explain that, although the semiotics are different from those of the West, Japanese youth fashion is not without meaning.
In other moments from "Poems Without a Name," she is "prisoner of a flow without meaning"; she writes, "we could walk until morning and never get anywhere".
"Of course," I said, without meaning it.
