Sentences with phrase «apt metaphor for»

Reddit user mperklin last year posted an apt metaphor for bitcoin miners that we think bears mentioning.

The sensor - laden notch at the top of the iPhone X's screen is an apt metaphor for the compromises Apple had to make: it spoils the perfect all - screen front just a little bit, representing the eternal struggle to balance aesthetic and technical requirements in a thoughtful way.

This kind of clarity is an apt metaphor for the LS50 Wireless» sound signature.

Maui Term Life The legend of the demigod Maui serves as an apt metaphor for your Hawaii life insurance quote.

Physical health is an apt metaphor for your degree of legal risk.

grow more and more desperate and see every weather event as more «proof» of man - made global warming, the more apt metaphor for them would be «witch doctor.»

Some incorporate x-rays, an apt metaphor for what these newly discovered works offer us: a look into the inner mechanics of Hendricks's mind and process — insight into his tendencies, his unique concerns.

The inability to simultaneously experience both aural and visual aspects of the performance is an apt metaphor for an individual ricocheting between cultures.

Meanwhile, Wandering Studio mixes a Sienese landscape with an Afro - topped, one - legged figure smoking a hookah onstage who gazes through a hallucinatory window that's a painting within the painting - an apt metaphor for the comedic, theatrical scenes that Mosley conjures up.

Providing an apt metaphor for the long shadow cast by Sun Ra and others, the exhibition features more than sixty works of art, including ten new commissions, charting the evolution of Afrofuturist tendencies by an international selection of established and emerging practitioners.

Jackson Pollock mediated through an LCD screen seems an apt metaphor for generational detachment given his determination to dissolve the barriers between him and his painting, the exterior and interior universe: «When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing,» he declared in 1948.

An apt metaphor for a man who risked losing his creative equilibrium for the sake of experimentation, this colourful abstract work was influenced by Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase.

This humble decadent treat serves as an irreverent yet apt metaphor for reflections on objects challenging single readings.

While there, check out the concurrent show «Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New,» which features commissioned works by 12 international artists exploring a Freudian theory about dreams, in which the psychoanalyst speculated that the mind creates fantasy out of what we already know — an apt metaphor for making art.

It's an apt metaphor for the Bauhaus practice of challenging students with a series of design problems instead of teaching them rote theory.

Contact improvisation is an apt metaphor for two people feeling each other out during a first meeting.

Raul Ortega Ayala constructs a Tower of Babel of fat and bones, an apt metaphor for the ruin and decay of our times.

An apt metaphor for the meditations on creative process — an immeasurable distance between thought and object in which anything could happen.

But «FRANCHISE FREEDOM» also forms a rather apt metaphor for the hordes of eager art buyers poised to descend on the city of Miami next week.

429 miles west (ish) of Austin, 192 miles southeast of El Paso, and a whopping 600 miles due west from Houston, with vaulting mountains, endless horizon lines, and a solitude all its own, the drive to Marfa is an apt metaphor for the city's history.

Rusty Scruby: He Sells Seashells The seashells of the title both symbolize the Dallas artist's beginnings — he grew up on Kwajalein Island — and make an apt metaphor for the way his obsessive photographic reconstructions develop.

Through digital distribution and printing methods the image files are eventually corrupted, creating an apt metaphor for the marginalized histories of art and culture with expressionistic explosions of color across the frame.

The 12 comparatively conventional portraits here form a circle of her artist friends including Matthew Barney, John Baldessari, Kara Walker and others set amid chiaroscuro lighting that makes them seem to glow from within, an apt metaphor for the inner life of the artist.

His Flying Garden works imagine parallel agricultural modules, at present housing species of Spanish moss that receive necessary nutrition from the atmosphere - they are «air - sufficient,» an apt metaphor for the human self - sufficiency that his project hopes to engender.

But perhaps that's an apt metaphor for the often uncomfortable challenges (or rewards?)

Her friendship with Joe Gould, who claimed to be writing an «Oral History of the World,» inspired Neel to create what she called a «Visual History of the World» and which she compared to Balzac's «The Human Comedy,» a sprawling series of interconnected novels — an apt metaphor for her entire body of work.

It is perhaps worrying that Christopher Wool's direct and assertive works speak to our own zeitgeist most directly: his message of Riot finds many sympathisers in the febrile atmosphere of contemporary US politics, while Hole in Head — displayed right behind Noland's bullet - riddled cowboy — is a rather apt metaphor for many people's collective experience of Donald Trump's presidency.

That is another, apt metaphor for Sunset Overdrive, which mashes together so many different kinds of games that sometimes I wondered if this, again, was an attempt to make the game as palatable to as many different audiences as possible.

It's an apt metaphor for flash fiction because these tiny stories flow from tantalizing glimpses that lure the reader forward.

[8] They felt this was an apt metaphor for reading and intellectual excitement.

«White smoke»: A wag's apt metaphor for Monday's news of an end to Dayton's stalemate with the Legislature over alternative teacher licensing.

It's an apt metaphor for students developing autonomy and growing as learners.

Yet it's Taylor who earns the film's most affecting moments, particularly a scene where she softly croons to a virtually empty nightclub — in its own way, an apt metaphor for a life of defiant self - expression.

The restlessly roving camera (a comment I wrote in the dark about 20 minutes in) is an apt metaphor for a movie that is just all over the place.

Sporting intentionally mannered dialogue and Cronenberg's patented icy remove, «Cosmopolis» is cold to the touch, offering an apt metaphor for a society in which wealth and technology have stripped the powerful of their humanity.

It's also an apt metaphor for the optimism among a host of dreamers who seem to be perpetually caught in life's traffic jam, hoping things will clear up so that they can finally get to their intended destinstion.

But what an apt metaphor for the current climate of political discourse.

Reframing a notorious historical event like this is a bold movie, but it also serves as an apt metaphor for the differing ideologies of its two main characters.

In keeping with the film's laugh - track sensibilities, nary an act can perform without the stage collapsing, the sound equipment short - circuiting, the ceiling caving in or somebody stepping in the copious dog poop left behind by Kristal's diarrheic dog — an apt metaphor for how any serious punk aficionado is likely to feel upon leaving the cinema.

In a word, he's a hypocrite — an apt metaphor for the muddled morality of 1980s America.

Crash and burn is a painfully apt metaphor for the life of Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) as told in Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR.

The final scenes are a tour de force in which the bonfire - strewn streets fill with merrymakers and the exploding fireworks look as dangerous as a war, an apt metaphor for the everyday violence in the characters» lives.

Precognition seems like an apt metaphor for what science fiction can be to the culture.

Sadly, it's an apt metaphor for the film itself.

In Henry Hathaway's Technicolor film noir, Niagara Falls serves as an apt metaphor for the destructive power of out - of - control carnal and murderous obsessions.

This thrilling sequence is an apt metaphor for the entire film series: at first a bit clumsy in transferring Rowling's vision into movies, then gaining strength, finding its wing power and soaring in later episodes.

He grasps a rope and can't let go, a dangerous flaw for a man in his line of work, and an apt metaphor for his attachment to a sport that his given his life purpose and meaning.

But in fact, «pressure cooker» is an apt metaphor for the whole project.

Payne's reference serves as an apt metaphor for the lack of minority males in science and engineering (S&E) programs across the nation.

A bike crash as a black swan is, in fact, an apt metaphor for what the investigative journalist and natural - born skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich believes happened to America as a result of the positive - thinking movement.