Rather a word is only a " signifier ," i. e. the representation of something, and it must be combined in the brain with the " signified ," or the thing itself, in order to form a meaning-imbued " sign.

Rather than the more aristocratic themes and music of the Italian opera, the ballad operas were set to the music of popular folk songs and dealt with lower-class characters.

Rather than the traditional format established by Dungeons & Dragons, which often involved the characters wandering randomly through caves or tunnels and fighting different types of monsters, Sandy Petersen introduced the concept of the Onion Skin: Interlocking layers of information and nested clues that lead the Player Characters from seemingly minor investigations into a missing person to discovering mind-numbingly awful, global conspiracies to destroy the world.

Rather than employing method actors, he prefers unknown talent who have had some of the life experience of the characters they portray.

Rather than depicting characters and actions, it portrays the poet's own feelings, states of mind, and perceptions.

Rather than a chain moving continuously in one direction, the characters were on fingers mounted on a bar that moved left-to-right and then right-to-left in front of the paper.

Rather than become sidetracked with the issues of the time, Antigone remains completely focused on the characters and themes within the play.

Rather than aberrant, the Ovidian characters come to feel exemplary ".

Rather than tell the story of a cast of characters, the mythology of Funkadelic is a socially conscious spiritualism.

Rather than individual characters, these variants would make up the bulk of many action figure lines and often make use of the old figure and accessory molds.

Rather, their characters are too ambiguous to allow unequivocal placement based on the available data ( Livezey 1986, Sraml et al.

Rather than a celebration of a narrow, anachronistic idealism, Tolkien's works hinge upon his characters moving beyond that place of idealism into a broader, more complex interaction with the world.

Rather than having precomposed characters like ISO-8859-1 it codes basic characters and a large number of combining diacritic marks, making it capable of expressing a large range of characters.

Rather than there being certain characters who can only use certain skills ( physical attack skills, magic, etc.

Rather than having a party decided by the plot as in previous Grandia games, Xtreme gives the player 8 characters from which the player is free to choose his preferred team.

Rather than faithfully reproducing the famous illustrations of Sir John Tenniel, a more streamlined and less complicated approach was used for the design of the main characters.

Rather than adapting the original novels, however, the graphic novels will feature original stories with the same characters.

Rather than divide the text in half chronologically, Martin opted to instead split the material by character and location, resulting in " two novels taking place simultaneously " with different casts of characters.

Rather, it is the other characters who presume to know one another's hearts and who scheme and dissemble relentlessly ( including to themselves ) who are at fault.

Rather, they reused characters and settings from prior works whenever they found it convenient.

Rather, sound effects and music comprise the soundtrack as the characters interact and solve problems.

Rather, King borrows the term to describe his observations about major archetypal characters of the horror genre, which he posits come from two British novels and one Irish: the vampire ( from Dracula ), the werewolf ( from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ), and the " Thing Without a Name " ( from Frankenstein ).

Rather, like the characters in the Dostoevsky and Rilke novels, they are victims of larger ideological, social, and existential forces that have brought them to the brink of insanity.

Rather, slaves involved in various activities and in multiple roles: raising livestock, fertilizing soil, growing provisional crops, maintaining plantation infrastructure, caregiving, and other tasks.

Rather than cast a new puppeteer in the roles of Casey and Finnegan a team of new puppeteers were brought in, including Karen Valleau ( Chester the Crow ), Nina Keogh ( Truffles ), Jani Lauzon ( Granny ), Cheryl Wagner, and later, Ruth Danziger ( Annie ), Jim Parker ( Alex ), and Bob Dermer ( Lorenzo the Raccoon ).

Rather than choosing roles that would bring him critical acclaim or that he wanted to do, he seemed to be available for any role that paid well.

Rather, Samson's blindness plays various symbolic roles.

Rather, the matrix is a template that must be filled in by the goals / rules, processes, material, roles, locations, and events specifically required by the organization.

Rather than hire black actors for the roles and instruct them to imitate to the maximum extent possible the very stereotypical voices used by the radio performers, program creators Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll performed the roles themselves in blackface.

Rather, he had always preferred comic roles and traditional Austrian fare ( Johann Nestroy, Ferdinand Raimund ).

Rather than continue in leading man roles, he gave up losing weight and went after character parts instead.

Rather, in some 1 % er clubs, women have in the past been portrayed as submissive or victims to the men, treated as property, forced into prostitution or street-level drug trafficking, and often physically and sexually abused, their roles as being those of obedient followers and their status as objects.

Rather than manage the team's front office, the player manages the career of his athlete: selecting movie roles, accepting product endorsement, etc.

Phil Hardy, in his Encyclopedia of Western Movies ( 1985 ), wrote of El Topo: " Rather in the manner of Federico Fellini, whose self-conscious conflation of the roles of charlatan and ringmaster of the unconscious Jodorowsky apes, the film is a breathtaking concoction of often striking, but more often ludicrous, images.

Rather, it implies between successive presents non-localisable connections, actions at a distance, systems of replay, resonance and echoes, objective chances, signs, signals, and roles which transcend spatial locations and temporal successions.

This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of Dan Rather over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 election that attempted to impugn the military record of George W. Bush by relying on allegedly fake documents that were provided by Bill Burkett, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard.

Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man ( 1990 ), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage ( 1998 ) ( with Tom Courtenay ), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996 and 1997.

Rather than his whimsical attributes, this story focuses on the futuristic and fantastic aspects of Eega Beeva and his environment, as do later stories.

Rather than having a consensual marriage, he rapes her ( thought to be based on the story of Ailill Aulom ), and she exacts her revenge by either changing him into a goose, killing him, or both.

Rather than re-shooting the rest of the pilot story for broadcast, the show just proceeded on.

Rather did a story on heroin.

Rather than telling a story by starting at A and going through B to C, The Mask of Orpheus explores the Orpheus myth in a number of directions at once, examining the various contradictions which are in the various versions of the myth.

Rather than anecdotes and sayings, the story telling unit in these operas is much smaller, and hence the language is more abstract.

Rather than the player playing through three related episodes as in the first Doom, gameplay takes place over one giant episode, albeit with interludes for when the story develops.

Rather filed a $ 70 million lawsuit against CBS in 2007, claiming that the network and its management had made him a " scapegoat " in the Killian story.

Rather it was a story about a woman with whom Abbey had an affair in 1963.

Rather than create a fictional country for the King in his story, as in the Ruritanian tales, Conan Doyle chose to place a fictional dynasty in a real country.

Rather, the story progressed at the pace as it would in real life.

Rather than re-tell the 1982 Blade Runner film, the developers created a different story set in the same universe, serving as a side story.

Rather than the ' Done-in-One ' stories of JHv3, All-Star Western is an ongoing story arc that finds Jonah in Gotham City of the 1880s, teamed up with Amadeus Arkham.

Rather than using narration to tell the story, Kopple chose to let the words and actions of these people speak for themselves.

Rather stated, " if I knew then what I know now – I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question ," and CBS News President Andrew Heyward said, " Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report.

Mapes and Dan Rather, among many other journalists, had been investigating for several years the story of Bush's alleged failure to fulfill his obligations to the National Guard.

Mapes informed Rather of the progress of the story, which was being targeted to air on September 8 along with footage of an interview with former Lieutenant Governor of Texas Ben Barnes, who would publicly state for the first time his opinion that Bush had received preferential treatment to get into the National Guard.

On the CBS Evening News, on September 10, Rather defended the story and noted that its critics included " partisan political operatives.

* Rather concluded by stating, " If any definitive evidence to the contrary of our story is found, we will report it.

In an appearance on CNN that day, Rather asserted " I know that this story is true.