metaphor (exact matches only)

It is an easy metaphor for what has happened to his government over the last year.

You have to be a fan of this genre to best appreciate this metaphor-laced action adventure.

It was all a wonderful metaphor for the enigma of knowledge itself as it led one on from one's precarious beginnings in the books in front of one up into the vast unread above.

It is a metaphor for the cheek-by-jowl world of Israelis and Palestinians jammed together in a struggle for territory.

Taken together, along with the sheer weight of 43 seasons without a championship, those games represent a metaphorical piano dangling from a rope above the Eagles' heads.

You don't have to be a literalist or pedant to feel that the metaphor is ruined for anyone who appreciates accuracy in art.

Consider it a metaphor for destruction of the white cube of modernism by the postmodernist black box of video-viewing.

Trippi describes the campaign with a software metaphor: it is "open source" rather than "proprietary", Linux as against Microsoft, in which the individual user is free to adapt the campaign's considerable resources to his or her own personal and local circumstances.

It might be tempting to describe him as an integral part of London's `aristocracy', but that would be anachronistic in a hierarchical society where degree and rank were not applied in a random or metaphorical way.

There are metaphors of archery throughout More's writings, with his references to `a full shotte', the `but' and the `prycke'. It is hard to imagine his ever being a good archer, however, let alone an enthusiastic player of `foteball', with an inflated pig's bladder used as a ball, or of `cokesteel' with a cock buried up to its neck in the ground and used as a target for missiles.

Imagine, then, that the therapist asks her, while she is under hypnosis, whether she has other "parts" to her personality—something that most of us feel we have, if only metaphorically (our rational self, our irrational self; our adult self, our child self). Imagine, finally, that the therapist asks her whether she wasn't abused as a child—something that many of us feel we were, if only psychologically, and which some of us were literally.

In the poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi, the classic master-poet of Sufism, the song of the reed is the metaphor for our human condition, haunted as we so often are by a vague sense of longing and of nostalgia, but nostalgia for we know not quite what.

The Babylonian exiles' concern about their own position is clearly seen in Jeremiah (24:1-10) where an unambiguous metaphor compares the exiles with the remnant left in the land of Judah.

I think not, for he had to understand that the working of parallelism within his writings was not metaphorical only, but normative.

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