Signifiers

In a rare moment of vulnerability, she sheds tears before slathering her face with foundation to cover up her changing, sallow features — signifiers that she needs to feed.

The film sprinkles in a couple desperate signifiers — a growing pile of entangled earbuds, silent cloaked figures who don’t answer to greetings — to rack up some intrigue.

They are real admirers of signifiers who bubble up out of the racist swamp for whatever reason.

After two months of political events, I suspected that different news networks have their own signifiers, like the distinct stripes and markings on various spiders.

Books can be aesthetic signifiers, colorful set pieces of sorts, their spines telegraphing a certain gravitas — or a certain playfulness, depending on how they’re arranged.

The setting, certain ambient music choices, and textual references seek to wrap the game in black cultural signifiers.

Tokyo has also agreed to recognise more than 200 "geographic signifiers", allowing iconic European products like Roquefort cheese, Tirolean speck and Polish "Wodka" to protect their brand value.

Under the guidance of the therapist, defense mechanisms are bypassed by the use of signifiers and semiotic processes.

Žižek, p. 68: "This brings us to the topic of the subject that, according to Lacan, emerges in the interstice of the 'minimal difference,' in the minimal gap between two signifiers.