Meanings of universal significance in English

In his mouth the words assumed a peculiar, universal significance, bitter and corrosive.

But Normal People makes being young a drama of universal significance.

Regarding the lotus and its universal significance as a religious emblem, Payne Knight says:

But over and above its national significance, Jewish history, we repeat, possesses universal significance.

Professor Vilhelm Andersen correctly described it as a "Danish culture-comedy of universal significance."

These laws have, no doubt, a universal significance, and may be translated into problems of life.

The universal significance of natural beauty

But as with all local stories when they are told with heart and flair, they take on a universal significance.

This was a consistently well-judged performance, sensitive to the US context yet with an abiding eye for its universal significance.

Thus the natural character of signs, the universal significance which is their peculiarly distinctive feature, may and often does become lost.

He also said human rights were "of universal significance, but they must tally with a country's economic and cultural development".

If God's words are eternal, uncreated, and of universal significance, then how can we talk of God's words being superseded or becoming obsolete?

Not only must one understand that every effort, however despairing, is an element of sense in the universal significance;

Here, the collision between man and primate assumes a more universal significance, embodying the eternal struggle between the old world and the invasive new.

IV: Mission and Testimony - The Universal Significance of Modem Anti-semitism, p. 119 ff.