We engage in an act of poetic meaning-making forewarned and forearmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Lakoff: Palin the Poet] Reference

I tell students that our brains are meaning-making, pattern seeking machines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The problem with math education ...] Reference

Our hermeneutics should begin from the general phenomena of semiosis, of meaning-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [AKMA’s Random Thoughts] Reference

It seems to me that is the difference between psychotic and psychoanalytic meaning-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: Psychosis and psychoanalysis] Reference

WoolGathering: "Thoughts on faith and meaning-making." —GloryintheMorning Blogger: current.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Guide to UU blogs.] Reference

But MMOGs are also culture; they are meaning-making, community-forming, expressive instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Order 66] Reference

A: It really comes down to meaning-making and wrapping people into a community and a brotherhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faith Communities Can Fill The Void For Returning Veterans] Reference

The word myth, for me, is a rich, deep, thick, meaning-making word, in the context of my own faith and spiritual life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas Faith will return on July 14 | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference

There are four precursors of religious behavior, according to Ms. King: empathy, meaning-making, rule-following, and imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [A good book, a comfortable chair, and a cool beverage...goodness, I'm easy to please] Reference

That's just one more example of something utterly irrational that some societies do as part of their cultural meaning-making exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theology And A Handshake] Reference

There is a world of difference between unproductive obsessions rooted in anxiety and productive obsessions that arise from our meaning-making needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: 8 Ways to Obsess Productively] Reference

Free to play, the child develops its creative capacities, its meaning-making abilities without being held responsible for the worlds it brings into being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simone de Beauvoir] Reference

These topics are relevant to understanding society, because this dialectic of convention, innovation, and meaning-making is virtually pervasive in everyday life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

But one must be armed with the appropriate methodologies to address both, ones that puts you in a position to explore the interplay of meaning-making and practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Exceptionalism: A New Approach to Games] Reference

Each of us is an entire universe, the one and only who will ever trod this earth, a work-in-progress and an unruly spark of meaning-making energy on a voyage toward infinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Visit to Champaign-Urbana] Reference

When we remember that markets are simply means by which to create meaning, we invest not only in money-making ventures, but -- as Ganz calls them -- "meaning-making institutions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucia Brawley: Part II - Why Arts Education is a Matter of Social Justice and Why it will Save the World] Reference

These parts are involved for any meaning-making context.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMIXTALK] Reference

Valuable: Our brains are pattern-seeking, meaning-making muscles.    From Wordnik.com.  [LeaderTalk] Reference

Support has been thoroughly documented for some aspects of the meaning-making model.    From Wordnik.com.  [PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within] Reference

Mentioned above, meaning-making appears to be an important element of posttraumatic growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within] Reference

Permapoesis: meaning-making through active participation with one's local community-ecology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gowanus Lounge] Reference

Instead he made the rational will of humans the starting point of coherence and meaning-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Chester] Reference

In addition, the quality of the meaning-making attempts and the meanings made is at least as important as the quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within] Reference

This conclusion, I have to say, runs counter to all that anthropology has taught me about patterns of human meaning-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookslut] Reference

Sinkers are the "meaning-making" activities that help students show they have an understanding of the topics covered in class.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

In particular, it is clear that meaning-making attempts and meanings made are reported by most individuals facing highly stressful events.    From Wordnik.com.  [PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within] Reference

However much he resisted any attempt to find meaning in his art, its very existence depends upon the fact that humans are a meaning-making species.    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

That meaning-making narrative is the realm of freedom, which may be metaphysically illusory, but it's the best we've got, which is quite a lot I think.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. X's Free Associations] Reference

When we remember that markets are simply means by which to create meaning, we invest not only in money-making ventures, but - as Ganz calls them - "meaning-making institutions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

'meaning-making' process around music has become virtually frictionless.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Music Strategies] Reference

It’s an original and ground-breaking narrative study, focused on the deep meaning-making perspectives of participants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Lynn Lopez Schubert, 1952-2006] Reference

(But that’s constructed by the user … any arc we try to create artificially just gets in the way of this act of meaning-making by the user.    From Wordnik.com.  [inkblurt · Random thoughts on Space, Rules, Play & IA] Reference

Art for me is about meaning-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lo, the poor Na’vi! « educating alice] Reference

Human beings are meaning-making animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Schwartz: Six Invisible Secrets to Fostering Your Creativity] Reference

But we cannot eschew meaning-making altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theology And A Handshake] Reference

Calhoun, 1996, 2004), resilient people are less likely to engage in the meaning-making behaviors (Bonanno, Wortman.    From Wordnik.com.  [PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within] Reference

Human beings are meaning-making creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore] Reference