Later cases were less scrupulous in applying the metaphor and it came to be used in a very general sense. |
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As the metaphor implies, newer is not necessarily better, and the grandfather clock is still keeping good time. |
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Such a metaphor as the menu gives couples a vehicle for exploring their wants and desires. |
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Of course poetry is also, even largely, driven by metaphor and image, in a host of ways. |
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Whether he was hoping for a literal metaphor that expressed very clearly how he had lost his shirt, I cannot say. |
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That's got to be as poor a metaphor as I've ever seen, and if it's one of the book's quotable high points, the volume is in trouble. |
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A group of fruit trees in this work becomes a hideous metaphor for a world out of joint. |
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A well-worn metaphor is that of providing the fish or teaching someone to fish. |
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She draws a metaphor for how this is contrary to her work with children and adolescents. |
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When we are done, we will have a purer English, free of all nasty things like metaphor and simile and aestheticism and colour. |
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Motherhood is a powerful metaphor because it is central to esteemed ideals of womanhood, particularly among Latinos. |
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Her claim that voice is a worn-out metaphor rests, in large part, on its associations with oral literacy traditions. |
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On the other, his film is only a metaphor for an imaginary America so not to worry. |
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What intrigues me about the metaphor of alchemy is the importance it places on the process of transformation. |
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Nowhere do we see a case for Rowling being as allegorical as C.S. Lewis or as skilled with metaphor as Roald Dahl. |
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The second mitigating factor is that Crowley uses the entirety of time travel allegorically, as a metaphor for British colonialism. |
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For Hayes, the garden has become an all-encompassing metaphor for a life of plenitude. |
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They could add descriptive words, phrases or sentences, or they could write a poem, haiku, alliteration, metaphor, or perhaps words from a song. |
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For the trained symbologist, watching an early Disney movie was like being barraged by an avalanche of allusion and metaphor. |
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It seems to me that your observations about the need to use imagery, metaphor and allusion correctly are well taken. |
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In this way, the yin and yang provide a guiding metaphor for online learning environment. |
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The plane is a metaphor for his remoteness, his aloneness, his posture as an observer, an outsider. |
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Their sense of play and reliance on narrative and metaphor made them vehicles for more than simple reportage and documentation. |
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The green-eyed monster of budget constraints is, pardon the mixed zoological metaphor, the monkey that rides the back of many a theatre producer. |
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Barker suggests that metaphor is an essential feature of human communication. |
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The metaphor that likens the brain to a computer is misleading and in another discussion somewhere, sometime, I will tell you why that is. |
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Using a geometric style that is still sparer and more linear than her previous book designs, she presents a visual metaphor of the book itself. |
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You find, if you change a direction, you get an opposition and an apposition, which creates an irony, which creates a metaphor. |
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Recall that culture too is a metaphor, a linguistic device which enables us to understand something else. |
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It is remarkable how nicely the linguistic metaphor fits the molecular world. |
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I fall back into my old fascination of trying to find the ideal metaphor for the United States, especially as demonstrated in our literatures. |
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The metaphor of the people being like trees planted by streams of living water is familiar in Jeremiah. |
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This is not to say that most poets do not utilize such tools as metaphor, simile, assonance, and other poetic techniques. |
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Her astrological sign is Sagittarius, the centaur archer, whose arrow is associated with the metaphor of time as an arrow. |
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However, if riots are indeed a language, to return to Brooks's metaphor of mirroring, then it is a language learned from white lynchers. |
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Drawing on biblical metaphor, he looks to Jesus' parable about the wheat field sowed with tares, not to be separated until the final harvest. |
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The best metaphor for my sheltered existence is that of a womb with internet access. |
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My expectations were aroused by the implied metaphor, but the cover is ultimately a tease, and by page four I found myself loathing the book. |
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To that end he offers a structured argument whose central metaphor or image is the spinning well that lies at the heart of Mande tradition. |
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But no saga of corporate back-stabbing could possibly match it, not least because in Rome, back-stabbing was more than a metaphor. |
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Meanwhile, more religions are ransacked for metaphor than Joseph Campbell ever shook his shtick at. |
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But understanding the science of complexity is a far more useful metaphor than the traditional appeal to Newtonian physics. |
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Certainly you can find that kind of metaphor in a Western, or in a romance, or in science fiction. |
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A metaphor for the sky, this modern baldacchino also frees them from any technica l requirements except supporting themselves. |
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Yes, I know I'm scrambling the metaphor, but it works for me so let's ignore it and move on. |
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His immersion in her mall adventure is a succinct metaphor for the soul-damaging nature of materialist suburbia. |
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The metaphor my old physics professor liked was that matter is energy tied into knots. |
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I like the notion of a library as a treasure chest, since it operates as a dual metaphor. |
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In that sense we use the metaphor of the bar code, it's a unique identifier for each species. |
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Macarthur's flocks were based on Spanish merinos and the term pure merino became a metaphor for colonial aristocracy. |
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Rather, religious metaphor is a frame through which we represent and understand sport and sportspeople. |
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She does this not with hackneyed images of shell-shocked Tommies, but principally through simple visual metaphor. |
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Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and metaphor. |
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Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. |
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The torso also includes the heart, a metaphor for your vital life force, as well as representing the bonds of love. |
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What is known is that the ball was a metaphor for the movement of the sun, and by extension also of the moon and stars. |
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This could be seen as a metaphor for writing fiction, but the story itself seems too schematic. |
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Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a metaphor for the Korean Way of Doing Things. |
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This would be a good metaphor for something, no doubt, if I could only pin it down. |
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Throughout the film, the necklace serves as a metaphor for her freedom to live a life of her choosing. |
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I had also meant for this story to be a metaphor for my own life as I knew it and saw it. |
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He is a recurring metaphor for the colour and movement of Australians at play. |
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What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy metaphor for contemporary America. |
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In the story, this inability to finish a picture is a metaphor for being reluctant to commit to a relationship. |
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I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a metaphor for being stubbornly set in one's ways. |
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The title is a metaphor for the need to satisfy cravings that perhaps we do not always fully recognize. |
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It's almost a metaphor for immigrant life, which has to be retooled to succeed in America. |
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Yet its importance as a metaphor for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons. |
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What should be in the GP's toolkit, to use a rather mechanistic metaphor, for approaching their patients who have been bereaved? |
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Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures. |
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The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy. |
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Allegory cuts across metaphor and metonymy, the image is both fragment and performs a figurative function. |
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These objects fueled a desire for knowledge and possession, although most often through the symbolic operations of metaphor and metonymy. |
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The piece foregrounds the poetic tension between metaphor and metonymy which, I have argued elsewhere, exist in each other. |
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Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy. |
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I opted for freedom, though on many occasions continuing to use familiar metric forms, but rejuvenated within the iridescent world of metaphor. |
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As already mentioned, the theory of conceptual blending transcends the study of metaphor. |
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The coupe becomes a metaphor for a utopian world that is liberated from patriarchy, one that is not characterised by false binaries. |
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The mixed metaphor is unfortunate, but his story line sounds promising and adds suspense. |
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The geographical mix-up is a good metaphor for so many of the misunderstandings that plagued me in the first few years of my job. |
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It is all too easy to enforce that students give speeches that have attention getters, transitions, and summaries and that make occasional use of metaphor or alliteration. |
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The section on markers discusses rhyme and alliteration, oppositions, word repetition, paradox, metaphor, pithiness and aspects of the syntax of proverbs. |
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The scrunchie is in many ways the perfect fashion metaphor for the woman who may one day be Princess Harry. |
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An appropriate metaphor might be a game of billiards or snooker, events in the three kingdoms so many balls bouncing off one another and occasionally falling into pockets. |
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The double entendres turned on his physical doughiness as a metaphor for imputed political softness. |
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The cannibalism is, in typical Sondheim fashion, a cheeky metaphor for the dog-eat-dog capitalism of the day. |
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Putting metaphor and other tropes in a rather remote place, he propounded another aspect of figurative language as absolutely essential to the sublime. |
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Anthrax may not be a very useful weapon of biological warfare, but it provides a potent metaphor for the fears of Western society after 11 September. |
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But there's nothing very Leonard Cohen about this Hilton Hotel hang, unless you want a decor metaphor for one of his sexually repressed characters. |
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His playing is so awful in these few measures, which form the very heart of the piece, as to create a metaphor for his performance of the entire work. |
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In this elegantly crafted debut, Hauser wields the metaphor of a strained river with care. |
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Babylon could be a euphemism for Rome or it could just be a metaphor for imagined exile. |
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The book opens with a metaphor of ships at sea, a small sailing craft that rides out a storm, and a great supertanker crushed by twenty-five meter waves and gale winds. |
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This metaphor raises a lot of questions when juxtaposed with the rest of the lyrics of the song. |
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Rather than parading a host of dummies laid out by the swift punches of scare quotes, each carefully collected word bleeds into the body of its own mixed metaphor. |
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I like to think of the rats as a metaphor for the city's egalitarianism. |
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The aquatic theme is continued on the album cover and is a general metaphor for the melodiousness of the music which washes in and out but doesn't leave any lasting impact. |
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Her hunger pangs serve as an apropos metaphor for her literary life. |
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The two men share a certain poetic sensibility, a love of metaphor. |
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European myths settle on archetypal characters and events, stories rich in metaphor and allusion that weave deep meaning from past epics into the activities of everyday life. |
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The metaphor of consumption dominates this speech and connects each image. |
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It was a rupture in our genealogy that came to serve as a metaphor for larger losses in black history. |
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Another characteristic of the semantics of slang is the tendency to name things indirectly and figuratively, especially through metaphor, metonymy, and irony. |
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A leading Australian novelist once upbraided me about the poet's indecent use of metaphor, as though he felt that my mob was stealing a march on him, poor soul. |
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The metaphor of the banished king is made most clear when Philip is being discharged from the hospital and his sangha refuses to accept him because of the complications. |
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A good metaphor for this complexity is a large, tangled ball of string. |
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But to simply call all these feelings melancholy, Toohey argues, is to link disparate experiences by a sleight of metaphor. |
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These entrapment images are supplemented by yet another cage metaphor, created on this occasion by the camera tracking the two men from behind the railings. |
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Once again he accused the West of being unfair to Russia, bringing back his favorite metaphor, the Russian bear. |
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Music is somehow related to it, and a metaphor of restlessness, romanticism, utopia somehow. |
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was of course no accident, either as fact or metaphor. |
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If you want to explore music as a metaphor for sociopolitical affairs, this novel is the place to start. |
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The war dance thus becomes the ready visual metaphor for Indian barbarity in general and provides audiences with a frame of reference for viewing scenes of native life. |
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To use a sports metaphor for a moment, the history of sports is littered with teams that had lots of individual stars on them, but never made it to the championship game. |
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After a couple of weeks out of the game I came out of the blocks like a prize fighter wielding a mixed metaphor simile cliche and battered everyone in my path. |
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The spiral design is a metaphor of change and transition, a celebration of the coexistence of past and future. |
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He is as conversant with HTML and Git as with metaphor and the twists and turns of plotting. |
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The Walking Dead, like the monomyth, is a metaphor for human nature and conviction of the spirit. |
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The Vancouver performance thus becomes a crystal-clear metaphor for every other promise of the Putin era. |
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Forceful, dominant, and fertile, the ram is a visual metaphor of kingship. |
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The book's title is, of course, a metaphor for what she as a writer does. |
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Jones is a master of the reductive impulse, a maker of rigorously crafted geometric abstractions that function as emblems of energy, generators of metaphor. |
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To wring all that can be wrung from metaphor, note what our elected and appointed officials are not dressed as. |
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In the one there was much talk of the unconscious, of the underlying grammar of myths, of metaphor and metonymy, contradictions, resolutions, transformations and obviations. |
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Kirkman does dip into metaphor here, as telephones are a symbol of our connection with one another. |
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So if my garden is a metaphor for my life now then I'm in big trouble! |
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What better metaphor to describe the estrangement within marriage and the impermanence of love? |
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These can be discussed for grammatical fit, semantic appropriacy or match to devices of simile, metaphor or sound. |
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Culture jamming is, at root, just a metaphor for stopping the flow of spectacle long enough to adjust your set. |
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If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know. |
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The monastery where Ottavio is later sent becomes a metaphor of the motherless, femaleless family to which the boy now belongs. |
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The fourth wall is the imaginary barrier between the stage and the audience, and the phrase is a metaphor for the dramatic frame. |
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The same idea of mapping between source and target is used by conceptual metaphor and conceptual blending theorists. |
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Some studies extended the approach to specific subjects, such as metaphor and similarity. |
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Today the far reaching changes of the decision for the law of torts is sufficiently well recognised that the case's name is used as a metaphor. |
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The most common answer contained lexeme mimo which belongs to CONTAINER conceptual metaphor and were correlated with distracted state of Mind. |
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The United States abolished slavery during the Civil War, but labor union activists found the metaphor useful. |
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Patrick's reported serpent eradication was really a metaphor for his Christianizing influence. |
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In response to this barbarity, the philosopher Philometer invents chess, effectively replacing the body metaphor with the scacchic metaphor. |
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Her dilemma does not lead her to avoid or void metaphor through a radical literalization of her trauma of loss. |
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Rodriguez uses the metaphor of ants defending an anthill to describe the corporativist attitude of the clergy when one of its members is accused. |
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To borrow the Churchillian metaphor, the US president intends to try jaw-jaw ahead of war-war. |
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The students connected an abstract noun with a concrete noun and developed an extended metaphor. |
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Acoma the 1000 years old Indian Pueblo in New Mexico offers us a perfect metaphor. |
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A dragon metaphor is used on occasion as an image on the screen during lecture to remind students of this rheme in statistics. |
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Bull-riding, a reinless activity, provides a submerged metaphor for the central relationship, for its huge and ultimately unmasterable force. |
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Professional Mariologists seem to believe that one improves the power of the metaphor by adding new and more outrageous titles. |
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Talking to NPR, scholar Quentin Taylor tries to freshen up the metaphor. |
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So keeping with the high school metaphor, what clique would you roll with? |
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The book ends with this sentence fragment and mixed metaphor and it leaves me puzzled. |
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The Swans took to the Premier League like ducks to water, r if you'll forgive the avian mixed metaphor. |
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Alchemy is a metaphor for the metamorphosis of being through the combining of apparently unmixable opposites. |
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She understands the messiness of the human condition and captures it in scintillating prose and apt metaphor. |
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The code model of communication, a powerful metaphor in linguistic metatheory. |
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In order to understand properly what Grygiel is saying, a reader needs to read such claims as instances chiefly of poetic metonymy and metaphor. |
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Nietzsche pits intuition, metaphor, and the Dionysian against rationality, conceptual reification, and the Apollonian. |
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Forgive the mixed metaphor, but it looks the final frontier of live television might have a new hope. |
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Nothing serves as a metaphor for Florida randomness quite like a sinkhole. |
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This is all very on-message for some elements of the educational world, who see competitive team sports as a wonderful metaphor for life. |
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Petrarch was the first to give the metaphor secular meaning by reversing its application. |
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Petrarch's original metaphor of light versus dark has expanded over time, implicitly at least. |
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Some poetry became infused with scientific metaphor and imagery, while other poems were written directly about scientific topics. |
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A jumblesome profusion of cuttings and grafts offers a more promising metaphor than does bonsai. |
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The uniqueness of Perotspeak is its mixture of rustic metaphor with modern managementese. |
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Sorry about the mixed metaphor there, it's just I'm too excited about the final to pay attention to things like that right now. |
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George Lakoff's work is usually cited as the cornerstone to studies of metaphor in the language. |
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Even Theseus' best known speech in the play, which connects the poet with the lunatic and the lover may be another metaphor of the lover. |
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His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. |
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But in every instance the commonplace thing is transformed by metaphor, the figure that moves the object toward the metaquotidian. |
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The line has since become a metaphor for expensive efforts that offer a false sense of security. |
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Silver plays a certain role in mythology and has found various usage as a metaphor and in folklore. |
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Perfume is described in a musical metaphor as having three sets of notes, making the harmonious scent accord. |
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Other assertions are that maps are inherently biased and that we search for metaphor and rhetoric in maps. |
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One of the miraculous passages in the life of Mohammed himself is traced plausibly by Sprenger to such a pragmatized metaphor. |
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The Plumed Serpent, an ideogram of the metaphor of Quetzalcoatl, alludes to one of the most powerful forces of nature. |
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Another method of effective language storage in the Lexicon includes the use of metaphor as a storage principle. |
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The name is a metaphor, based on the nucleus or coda having lines that branch in a tree diagram. |
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Hence, the words are understood as a metaphor and Zwingli claimed that there was no real presence during the eucharist. |
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Selfridge Lord Dunedin adopted Pollack's metaphor of purchase and sale to explain consideration. |
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In cognitive linguistics, the notion of conceptual metaphor may be equivalent to that of analogy. |
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The motif of the Romanesque equestrian, the mounted figure in the posture of a triumphant Roman emperor, became a visual metaphor in statuary in praise of local benefactors. |
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All fodder for a zealous psychologist, I'd imagine, because I realised that the absence of that resiny smell was nothing less than a metaphor for the end of my childhood. |
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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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Even though it has the biform monster at its centre, this is not a labyrinth as mythical threat, but a labyrinth as mode of contemplation, and as metaphor for life itself. |
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I have, for example, taken to heart the metaphor of cosmogenesis, which states that the universe began in a single founding event some fourteen billion years ago. |
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The second Lance Underphal Mystery, Flight of the Tarantula Hawk features the largest and deadliest wasp on the planet-a fitting metaphor for a twisted murder mystery. |
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Such portraits allowed Holbein to demonstrate his virtuosity and powers of allusion and metaphor, as well as to hint at the private world of his subjects. |
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Some scholars think this is a metaphor rather than a literal belief. |
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He pointed out that if a man used a metaphor as an invitation, the woman could pretend she did not understand him, and he could retreat without losing honour. |
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Cultural retranslation is a foundational postcolonial metaphor that might highlight the new horizons of transcultural and transnational relations and their political backdrop. |
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Juliet, however, participates in the metaphor and expands on it. |
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Good Weave certified, notNeutral's Eccentric design was partly conceived as a metaphor for a basket, with the banding and radiating linear elements evoking the basket weave. |
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The tangibility here of both the metaphor and the simile is typical of Thomas's tropology, as he resets the poem's tone and, figuratively, its location. |
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Reduplicated as a mirror image of itself, Clessidra resembles the device it is named for, one that, more than any other, is a metaphor for the ineluctability of time. |
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Donne's immediate successors in poetry therefore tended to regard his works with ambivalence, with the Neoclassical poets regarding his conceits as abuse of the metaphor. |
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Donne is considered a master of the metaphysical conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly different ideas into a single idea, often using imagery. |
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For all its somewhat ahistorical idealism, the melting-pot metaphor still represents the standard around which fervent proponents of assimilation have rallied over the years. |
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Samuel Pufendorf took over this metaphor in a modern context, meaning something similar, but no longer assuming that philosophy was man's natural perfection. |
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Ruskin articulated an extended metaphor of household and family, drawing on Plato and Xenophon to demonstrate the communal and sometimes sacrificial nature of true economics. |
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This view is supported by the Assyrian rimu, which is often used as a metaphor of strength, and is depicted as a powerful, fierce, wild mountain bull with large horns. |
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New paradigms in computational linguistics are reflected by research methods using Free Association Experiment based on cognitive metaphor stimuli. |
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Jesus' method of teaching involved parables, metaphor, allegory, sayings, proverbs, and a small number of direct sermons such as the Sermon on the Mount. |
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While in the Oresteia sacrifice operated as a metaphor for the intrafamilial murders of the Atreids, among the Taurians the metaphor takes on materiality. |
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In his discussion of the Essay, then, de Man divides emotion from metaphor for the unexpected reason that emotion is figurative, while metaphor works toward literalization. |
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I'll apply a light cleanser to that mixed metaphor while I'm at it. |
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Benedict Arnold has become a metaphor for traitor, a legend for treachery. |
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With this name we bring to bear in a female metaphor all the power carried in the ontological symbol of absolute, relational livingness that energizes the world. |
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