Plenty of artists also roll out minute sonic signifiers that represent their style and act as sonic trademarks.

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You don't have to be a professor of semiotics to deconstruct this presentation into layers upon layers of hidden messages and shifty signifiers.

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But he never evolves into more than a constipated rich guy who communicates in pained glances, curt demands, and other signifiers of manliness.

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Unlike most films that attempt to re-create this bygone era, signifiers aren't rubbed in your face while "In the Mood" blares from a radio.

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Those icons compare with products from Fiat, Armani, and Alessi, which are conceived as signifiers and aspirational objects of desire, in terms of the way they look.

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It seems to me quite strange that we haven't wished for tall buildings for some time but it is one of the signifiers of a really terrific city.

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There are sounds, production values, ideas and signifiers that I find arresting, beautiful, or otherwise pleasing, and I like to see if I can make something new out of them.

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He only gets to be a real character when the actor drops the cultural signifiers and plays what Friedman really is behind the Borscht Belt speech: a middle-aged man looking for love, and a home.

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As its name suggests, opening act Does It Offend You, Yeah? doesn't take itself terribly seriously: The British electro-rock band infuses its ambitious and chaotic music with bass slaps, cowbells, and signifiers of '80s pop, not to mention healthy doses of electronic screeching.

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