Sentences with phrase «as a metaphor»

They also serve as a metaphor for female beauty products, which can both enhance and mask a woman's identity.

The resulting abstraction serves as a metaphor for memory.

During his artistic career, he has created a series of monumental installations that act as metaphors of African place, history and identity.

These complications act as metaphors for contemporary American society and life in the Internet age.

Virtually all science fiction functions as metaphor, and I took this film to be a metaphor for the act of becoming fully human.

The door can also be seen as a metaphor for barriers, confinement, and opportunities for freedom that may be experienced in various realms of modern society.

With different approaches, the artists reflect about the forest as a mythical border to foreign worlds, as well as a metaphor for the complex emotional spheres of the modern individual.

I rely on animal body language in my work as a metaphor for these underlying patterns, transforming the animal subjects into human psychological portraits.

My abstract sculptures read as metaphors for life experiences such as the balancing acts that define our lives.

The act of swimming the length of a pool can be taken as a metaphor for human life.

The work is meant as a metaphor for political power.

Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the sculptors exploring the body as a metaphor for emotions are women.

The artist relies on animal body language as a metaphor for underlying patterns of human behavior.

He continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally, with individual and social class relations being the dominant focus of his art, using materials as metaphors for these issues.

Or do we see the whole thing as a metaphor?

Made over a period of two years, these detailed drawings depict women as metaphors of different states of mind.

«We live and work in such complicated circumstances,» he said in his narration, which could also double as metaphor for life in 2018.

The artist's iconic installations highlight the importance of structures as metaphors of settlement and memory.

«A lot of the stuff I was doing in physics is applicable to business, and not just as a metaphor,» he says.

The organizing of similar objects as a metaphor to find empowerment in groups?

She uses this myth as a metaphor for her own search.

She calls into question our relationship to the natural world using technology as a metaphor for loss.

By 1951, the forms had begun to take on a life of their own, sometimes as metaphors of erotic encounters between male and female.

The artist is particularly concerned with the sometimes mysterious and volatile ways cells to operate and respond to their environment, and how these processes can be viewed as metaphors for our tumultuous times.

I will illustrate in a final chapter how this master role as a metaphor for integration can direct the energy of the pastoral leader in each of the professional roles.

Sorry, that's as far as that metaphor's likely to go.

Using cats and dogs as metaphor for the essential elements of the authoritative approach this presentation helps parents become the family leaders that their children need.

Students sat in rows of desks under a tent to create a «classroom without walls,» intended as a metaphor for a school without adequate operations funding.

He developed the concepts of technology big wave surfing as a metaphor for ways to capitalize on the disruption that technology brings to the product marketplace.

A teacher uses clothing style as a metaphor for language style to emphasize the importance of style - shifting.

This new film has all of the elements of his writing that I admire, including the seamless way he almost always uses physical journeys as metaphors for the spiritual journeys of his protagonists.

«Crossing» utilizes the interior of rooms as a metaphor to illustrate an immigrant's mindset in two different time zones.

But what fails as metaphysics sometimes fails as metaphor, too.

After years in the couples therapy trenches, I no longer see sexuality as a metaphor of the relationship — I see it as a parallel narrative.

It can only allow light, space, openness, and form to be appreciated as the metaphors they really are.

Yet as peculiar as the metaphor first seemed, it has acquired meaning with the passage of time.

Reading heat as both metaphor and index, these images reveal the harsh struggle for survival lived daily by millions of refugees and migrants, seen but overlooked, and ignored by many.

Now people use the digital as a metaphor to read my work.

Keep in mind that tomorrow is being used as a metaphor here, and it could be six months or two years before a cold lead can become a closed sale.

We see poker as a metaphor for skills of life, business, politics and international relations.

You can also use the seasons as metaphors for life.

Today I find myself (and our teams) using modern manufacturing as the metaphor to design customer & revenue acquisition processes.

Whether we read a passage as a metaphor or literal can greatly change the meaning of passage.