(1) Referring or pointing to something
(1) The other way to think of music is in its own terms - not referential to anything else.
(2) Based on the Elena Stancanelli novel, the feature riffs beautifully on various bits of pop and film history, but never feels like a cheap ripoff, or like a work that rests on its referential laurels.
(3) Before identifying a paradigmatic text on which to focus, a basic understanding of the referential patterns in audience attitudes toward age, gender, and romance in screen cultures was sought.
(4) Shades of Mahler and Shostakovich flit through the texture in which dissonances set against a tonally referential idiom and allusions to earlier styles are set within absolute musical structures.
(5) As with Yojimbo and Sanjuro, Seven Samurai is, on a purely referential level of story and plot, about samurai warriors saving peasants.
(6) Almodu00f3var is one wildly referential director, riding pop culture throughout this Bad Education.
(7) This is one of the things that really bugs me: so much of this stuff is referential , and always to one place.
(8) There is an intuition that indefinites have specific readings in which they are referential and where the speaker can identify the referent, but the hearer cannot.
(9) Maybe she has decided her column should replicate a blog post that synthesises a number of sources (but without the referential hyperlinks)?
(10) As both message and context, nature can manifest the referential function.
(11) The map is a referential structure; inside a coordinate system all can be referenced laying the gridwork for reality.
(12) Even the earlier buildings are referential , trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one.
(13) The referential type of thing is what excites me.
(14) Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the referential jokiness of postmodernism.
(15) In language, the words we deal with do have referential meaning which extends beyond this closed logical system.
(16) The Walkers' art balances on a line between referential and impenetrable, sometimes falling on the wrong side of that line.
(17) Now, everyone seems to agree about where the basic referential morphemes here come from.
(18) The everyday is dilated and takes on further meaning, both abstract and referential .
(19) While the poems are often wild as usual, their referential reach is bound by the subject of the volume.
(20) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is only part of Lewis's multi-layered seven-volume fiction, and like most referential treatments of classic literature, it is overlong and sometimes awkward.
(21) To have allowed the actual, the almost-representational and the referential , into his frames is already a considerable move for Shreshtha.
(22) It was surely from Rothko, though, that he learned the profound truth that a simple shape can be not merely referential to the observed world but can in itself sum up and communicate human ideas.
(23) It is these referential touches that enhance the movie.
(24) Another piece of evidence that supported the study was that male talk tends to be more referential or informative, while female talk is more supportive and facilitative.
(25) K. Anthony Appiah argues that racial ascriptions are problematic whether one adopts an ideational or a referential theory of language.
(26) The bottom, ocher section, somewhat smaller in area than the top, can be read both referentially - a shadow or a wall section in another material or color - or purely formally.
(27) On the other hand the reference value might be referentially atomic, meaning that it has no particular internal structural relation to any other reference values; maybe it is used as an index in an association list.
(28) Would the speakers of such a language be prohibited from using their descriptions referentially ?
(29) However, in spite of the conference's attempted focus on the 1960s, Watten's talk was one of the few to actually attempt a contextualizing framework of the decade - not bad for a poet who seeks to subvert direct referentiality in his work.
(30) The point of deconstruction was that language, by its nature, escapes pure referentiality ; it was never that the things language tries to refer to do not exist.