Sentences with phrase «as central metaphors»

From its use of static takes, to structuring a familial drama around class conflict, to homing in on a family's swimming pool as its central metaphor, The Second Mother borrows shamelessly from La Ciénaga.

So much is this set of attitudes - the priority of «liberation» or «emancipation» as the central metaphor for the teacher's work - taken for granted among American educators that the higher performance of pupils in other countries on international tests in math and science is often dismissed as reflecting other countries» inappropriate stress on drill and memorization.

Using the artist's palette as a central metaphor, the Artful Thinking «palette» is comprised of six thinking dispositions which strengthen students» intellectual behaviors.

This haunting sculpture functions as a central metaphor for tying together the cross-generational associations between these women sculptors through an allusion to the Greek mythology of Arachne, the truth - teller, who became the first Spider Goddess.

Not exact matches

His teaching method, as I remember it, was simply to engage in reflective close readings of the Shakespeare tragedies and comedies, delineating their rich texture of image and metaphor and opening up their complex central themes — moral, philosophical and religious.

It's like he's finding shanti, a peace that surpasses understanding, in the bloody brainings of the characters he sees as central to his paranoid metaphor.

A central metaphor lies at the heart of this debut novel: a lioness, against all empirically derived expectation, guarding a young gazelle in the savanna for a period of days as tense as a knife's edge, protecting the fawn and yet holding it hostage.

A cascading waterfall, as wild and uncontrollable as time and memory, forms a central metaphor.

This web of resistance also stands as a universal metaphor for life - a silken thread spun from one's own body and connected from a central core to form a network that is as strong as it is fragile, permeable, and transparent.

I chose seven pipes because of the Seven Seas as a metaphor for the journey through life, the artist's circumnavigation, which has been and will always be one of my most central themes.

Variously inspired by a carcass in a butcher's shop, the sight of a leaping hare in the Sussex Downs, the 1972 book «The Leaping Hare», as well as its significance in world mythology, the hare became the central metaphor of Flanagan's life and work.

Music has played a central part in the artist's output, serving as a metaphor for his method of working in which fusion and rhythm, improvisation and repetition, and density and harmony of sounds are turned into pictorial gestures.

As you know, this isn't a matter of «fringy debate» but one, rather, of your and other «big city libs» central metaphors — that man is irremediably evil, left to himself, without God or, failing that, the «experts» (your «experts»!).

«A central activity was the establishment of a community garden, which not only yielded edible produce, but was also used as a metaphor for child development and the nurturing aspect of relationships,» Mario said.