Perversely, the songs seem to become more abstract - and more fixed in their metaphysical meanings - from being linked with individual characters.

I like everyday objects to have a meaning beyond the obvious, a metaphysical meaning.

Only in this way can it express its unconscious conviction of "the relativity of time and the true, metaphysical meaning of life".

In baseball, where the arc of spit can take on metaphysical meaning, the reaction has been underwhelming.

The first is religious books, which delve into the metaphysical meanings of faith, and the other is books published in the 1950's.

Kabakov assigns these colors a metaphysical meaning of earth and nature as controlled and depicted by the Soviet state.

"Once Ceausescu's tentacled state collapsed, its metaphysical meaning was gone."

"North" and "South" are indicated as having simultaneously metaphysical, geographical and anthropological meanings:

Her canvases are full of magical, luminous beings, and she imbues each work with both medieval and contemporary metaphysical meaning.

Others have looked for hidden metaphysical meanings in these stories or for a universal taxonomy of human beings.