Mr. Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed, and never handed round that small-talk of heavy men which is as acceptable as stale bride-cake brought forth with an odor of cupboard.

[The worm] had spread silently for six days before it began regularly trying to connect with its botmaster, who could have been hiding behind any of the 250 domain names the worm generated afresh each day.

Greimas narrates this process of producing meaning by describing the tendency of discourse to substantify relationships so that "whenever one opens one's mouth to speak of relationships, they transform themselves, as if by magic, into substantives.

At the audition you will be required to cold read a script.