Symbols are inherently referential. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The less obvious errors of grammatical and syntactical misuse remain, as do errors in referential pronouns, among others. From Wordnik.com. [May « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website] Reference
A little thing called referential transparency, for one. From Wordnik.com. [[Geeks Are Sexy] Technology News] Reference
Much of science is referential, that is how a body of knowledge is built that leads to theories in science. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge] Reference
There is plenty of whimsy, but it never gets cute, precious, or self-referential, which is quite an achievement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
People sort of enjoy that kind of referential thing, and they like making connections. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
I believe this is what's known as "self-referential.". From Wordnik.com. [Big Audio Dynamite (updated): James Wolcott] Reference
But Morrison's title also has a self-referential edge. From Wordnik.com. [American Means Black, Too] Reference
The speech was self-referential to an infantile degree. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
Indeed, your Top 50 approach will become self-referential. From Wordnik.com. [The Top U.S. Politics Blogs, Via Technorati's Update] Reference
Jerome pushes against the referential being of the roadbed. From Wordnik.com. [Counting Up, Counting Down]
Lame, self-referential, knowing jokes about playwriting abound. From Wordnik.com. [Deathtrap; Bedlam; Tiny Kushner] Reference
I think this may be the most self-referential moment of my life. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
I'm making things that are not, really, all that self-referential. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemology Of David Byrne] Reference
FARHI: The other problem here is, of course, it's self referential. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2001] Reference
But not that sense, that self-referential sense or that self-deprecating sense. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2002] Reference
They are not merely invincibly self-righteous but reflexively self-referential. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
And it's the first time that's really a self-referential record that she's put out. From Wordnik.com. [Britney Spears Is So Back — and Now It's Personal] Reference
For 12 issues, we've used this space for overtly self-referential sesquidecimalizing. From Wordnik.com. [15th Anniversary: A Look Back at How We Looked Back] Reference
There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. From Wordnik.com. [The Limits of Charisma] Reference
It would be, in his own self-referential world, a work of art: the masterpiece of a lifetime. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
"Portrait of an Artist" takes this desperation to its logical end: self-referential paralysis. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary Suicide Note] Reference
As our relentlessly self-referential president might put it, I feel your pain because I feel mine. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Moisture] Reference
The information revolution has exponentially multiplied the self-referential power of shared language. From Wordnik.com. [Man is the Measure of All Things] Reference
Our world is self-referential, always referring back to our shared story - even when we are refuting it. From Wordnik.com. [Man is the Measure of All Things] Reference
He just said, in his childishly self-referential way, that other Americans who had spoken here "didn't look like me". From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
All the layers of irony-the comicstrip format, the animal faces, the self-referential frame-story -- can't soften that. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Out Of The Silence] Reference
In the last decade musicians from Scandinavia to the Black Sea have had the courage to break out of that referential rut. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Gets Rhythm] Reference
In a self-referential land, people can be forgiven for glossing over the fact that New Delhi has hardly been singled out. From Wordnik.com. [How to (Super)bug an Aspiring Superpower] Reference
And with each passing film, his performances seem to be getting worse: more over-the-top, more self-referential, more stunted. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel L. Jackson Will Yell in his New Movie] Reference
It's one big self-referential loop, a Mobius strip in a hall of mirrors on an Escher staircase made of 24-carat preposterousness. From Wordnik.com. [This column will change your life: Just the job] Reference
With PHP and MySQL, the content can be dynamic, self - and extra-referential, non-deterministic, and chaotic, without much effort. From Wordnik.com. [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference
Like its packaging, there's something self-referential about Dzama's art and something reflective of the packaged world we live in. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange, Prescient Art Of Marcel Dzama] Reference
It creates a basis and a referential system, where specific problems associated with some sections of the extrenal reality can be solved. From Wordnik.com. [The Brain, A Decoded Enigma] Reference
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