Ms. Fleming, a California sculptor, develops complex patterns of layered and interwoven bands that are meant to have metaphysical implications.

This was, from the look on his face, a question of boundless metaphysical implications.

Early drawings establish the artist's no-frills diagrammatic style and the basic vocabulary of emblematic forms - stick figures, houses, maps - that take on social and metaphysical implications.

But metaphysical implications seem to have interested him less than enforcing a moral example to unite his far-flung subjects in peace and fellowship, under him.

Are those empirical credentials sufficient, however, to sustain the metaphysical implications it is thought that the laws have?

These dietary laws are meant to have both moral and metaphysical implications.

He didn't go far enough into the metaphysical implications of what he was saying to arrive at the solution.

This understanding of exile suggests the deeper, metaphysical implications of the term.

Without downgrading their metaphysical implications or the resonant poetry of the dialogue, his plays can be viewed as illustrations of the world after the bomb has dropped.

THE postwar film noir described the hopeless struggle of the individual against fate - an abstract notion that with economic as well as metaphysical implications.