As Cross puts it, modern humans can transfer insights from one domain to another, often to a domain that is metaphoric or symbolic. |
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The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts. |
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It is the metaphoric link between the melodramatic and the politic that America does so well yet, inevitably, gets so wrong. |
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The combination of fossils and gouged marks created a metaphoric interplay between fossilized creatures and shelled victims. |
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Walcott's metaphoric take on epic is so powerfully originative as to put the whole genre in a new light. |
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The principal one, a child of its times, was molecular associationism, a metaphoric extension of the atomism of nineteenth-century physics. |
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The fashion world is a fecund, fruitful and fertile source of metaphoric phrases. |
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The final indignity was to lose a home bonus point in the dying minutes as the descending darkness became both literal and metaphoric. |
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Also, notice that the metaphoric language Benjamin employs in this passage invokes travel and, indeed, traversal. |
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It's not a lack of editorial courage but, one is fairly certain, long experience with the architects with purple faces and metaphoric horsewhips. |
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What it does imply is that biotechnology research no longer looks askance to other fields for its metaphoric Inspiration. |
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The work of David Freedberg and Cell suggests that the animation implied here is something more than a metaphoric conceit. |
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Each of my paintings is like a book, exposing the tricks of the Evil One, revealing hidden truths through metaphoric symbols, hidden passages and written text. |
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His metaphoric compositions allude to the form of liturgy, travestying the shapes of altars, gravestones and feretories. |
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For many in China, Deng's swift rise into prominence has carried metaphoric import. |
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Being the activities of battle itself, tactics are conceived and executed at the literal and metaphoric centre of war's violence. |
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An exuberant use of diminutives and metaphoric figures marks the Slavic oral tradition. |
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Dramturgically the production was based on anatomical and astronomical metaphoric structures. |
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In this sense, I want the give them a metaphoric mirror in which they can see themselves reflected. |
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How do we approach commemorative or metaphoric use of heritage and memory in contemporary art or politics? |
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At that moment I feel that I am dying, at the same time in a metaphoric, symbolic and quasi-real way. |
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Of course, wetlands are shaped by their biodiversity, in literal as well as metaphoric, sense. |
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He apologized for using metaphoric language, but said his language was directed at the lawsuit, not the complainant personally. |
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His work does not make any sharp criticism, metaphoric reflection, and sociological considerations. |
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Their language is expressed in contractions, is often metaphoric, and, to the uninitiated, utterly unintelligible. |
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This is the metaphoric language of the sun-god, who is equally the God of justice. |
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If not, you will have created a more conducive environment for realizing next move, both real and metaphoric. |
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Vietnamese songs are very metaphoric and very allegorical and very soft. |
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It is this concrete fact, this reality, which gives the parachuting artificial limbs, the madly scurrying amputees, its terrifying metaphoric power. |
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With MTV no longer a major way to promote artists, and the Internet evincing a crippling deflation, the metaphoric sky had fallen. |
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In these works, the most metaphoric and the most literal understanding of bibliographic apparatuses can be seen to underwrite the logic of their content as well as their form. |
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As the ceasefire was announced, Peter Beinart asked me what Jerusalemites felt as we exited our own metaphoric bunkers. |
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On the contrary, you now discover innumerable ways to market your wares, be they real or metaphoric. |
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The Solar Eclipse, Wednesday, meanwhile, brings welcome news regarding real estate, real or metaphoric. |
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What will defeat us is the lateralization of what had remained in a state of metaphoric suspense for thousands of years. |
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Ironically, in their return to landscape and flora and fauna subjects, Japanese print arts revived the metaphoric vehicles of personal expression so familiar to the classic Japanese and Chinese painting traditions. |
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They are a gaudy bunch, much given to travel, colourful clothing, gadgets, hand-held foods, and striking metaphoric variations on the English language. |
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Other metaphoric associations further refract her character through Metastasian, pre-Romantic, and even Flaubertian topoi. |
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A metaphoric universe of transparency where Perspex consoles and abstract design, ultra-violet light games and polarising filters enhance the immateriality of the packaging and accessories displayed on this forum. |
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A high school as a metaphoric microcosm for order and emerging subversion. |
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Recent fiction by Chinese-Canadian migrant writer Ying Chen can be read as engaging with this discourse of nationalism, calling into question these metaphoric constructions of womanhood. |
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Cherry picking is a metaphoric term used in many industries, including health care and health and wellness. |
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Students may be led in discussions concerning metaphoric and symbolic accounts of the manner in which we, as Canadians, have encountered nature in a significant way through art, music, literature and activities. |
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Beyond these metaphoric definitions, there are the cold, hard facts. |
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Just as the butterfly is the metaphoric strange attractor in weather systems so there are strange attractors that influence each person's career. |
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This theodicity analogy also explains why politicians have drawn from these metaphoric models to formulate policy to control populations. |
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This paper describes continuing research on metaphoric abstractions in developing an interface that employs the starfield as its underlying metaphor. |
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Because of their iconic and metaphoric nature, an examination of Kanji logographs provides a deeper understanding of the cognitive role of written language in poetic texts. |
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