"Munich" is an important piece of work, easily one of the year's noteworthy achievements, but it is a film that impresses us rather than sweeps us away, a film where significance overshadows filmmaking.
It is a rare treat for the adventurous to be guided to sacred sites in unspoiled country, where the significance and energy of the land are carefully explained.
At the Queens Museum, where the significance of water is one of the themes, several competent, if mundane, marine paintings compete with Winslow Homer's superb 1888 etching, "Perils of the Sea, " whose presence here is puzzling, since it was inspired by the artist's stay at an English fishing village.
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"It's where you get a town of some significance, that isn't a cathedral city, where there's a church in the middle that is much more than a parish church, " he explained.
But focusing on market value and significance shifts the conversation away from where it actually needs to be, that is, on productivity.
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Without sound clinical oversight most people will be left in charge of a significant amount of information of uncertain significance and little direction as to where to go for reliable interpretation.
But the privacy blunders that Mayer has identified take on a new significance in the political realm, where Web users may seek to keep their political views distinct from their public identities for fear of discrimination or outside pressure.
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As well as a museum, there are plans to turn the house into an interpretation centre where people can learn about the historic and cultural significance of the area.
Seismologist Bruce Bolt of the University of California, Berkeley, told radio station KCBS that the Bolinas area is where the 1906 earthquake began, but he found no particular significance in that.
Mr Cobbe realised the significance of the painting after visiting an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery where he saw a portrait that had until 70 years ago been accepted as a life portrait of Shakespeare.
Where did you drop the passengers off and did they discuss anything of significance whilst in the taxi?
Observing that younger generations in modern societies may have difficulties in understanding the values and significance of intangible cultural heritage, the Director-General noted that in traditional societies, where information from outside was limited and young people acquired new knowledge primarily from older people in their communities, intangible cultural heritage was naturally and directly transmitted from generation to generation through their daily activities.
The significance of that change is that the US cannot now be said to have got back to where it was before the recession hit in 2007, unlike Germany and France.
And Robin Tomos, from the National Eisteddfod where the painter was both exhibitor and adjudicator, said Sir Kyffin had "strongly believed in its significance as a stage for art and "he supported the cause loyally, though exhibitions at the festival often raised his ire over the decades.
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