Sentences with phrase «as powerful metaphors»

If the cinema of the 1950s and 60s sublimated the fear of atomic catastrophe or communist attack into interplanetary drama, the more recent work collected here uses elements of that retro sci - fi world as powerful metaphors for our deep - seated fears of the Other, the foreigner — the increasingly frequently decried «invasion» of immigrants, or just the presence of people of different skin colors and beliefs.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to describe reality.

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Tree - climbing, he said, «acts as a powerful metaphor teaching students to conquer challenges and their fears.»

Not exact matches

Indeed, the problem with the Holocaust as a memory and a metaphor today is precisely that it is too powerful, an ever «expanding black hole of consciousness that invariably swallows up everything in its path.

«92 Grasping generates solution to immediate problem as well as universalization of the images» particularity.93 W. Berry notes with concern that «the most powerful and the most destructive change of modern times has been a change in language: the rise of the image, or metaphor, of the machine.

As Scot McKnight explains, it's that circling back that makes it a powerful Gospel metaphor:

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Meanwhile, Jordan Peele just started his directing career by bringing us the powerful horror thriller Get Out, rife with themes and metaphors about race, and a promising beginning to his future as a filmmaker.

So - called «destruction porn» is all about carnage on a grand scale, but Doctor Strange hinged on a scene in which Strange used the aforementioned Time Stone to literally rewind the scene unfolding before him and fight Kaecilius and Dormammu as the city of Hong Kong was rebuilt around him - a powerful metaphor for a character who is a brilliant surgeon.

It has a powerful resonance as a metaphor for wars of cultural animosity, hatred and mistrust, with human and ape both equating the worst actions of the other with the entire species.

In this forum in which Jeff Duncan - Andrade draws from Tupac Shakur's powerful metaphor of the rose that grows from concrete, as well as research in fields such as public health, social epidemiology, and psychology.

We wanted them to think in metaphor and use powerful sections from the texts we studied as inspiration for their art.

«The powerful image of subterranean skullduggery tirelessly proceeding beneath the heart of the city, brilliantly exploited in several key scenes, supplies just the right metaphor for the Victorian muckraking Perry might as well have patented.»

While there is still so much to learn about how metaphors affect people as they read and why they are such an influential and powerful technique, I think it's safe to say that metaphors are gems in literature.

As the game progresses, the introspective story unfolds through powerful metaphor and imagery.

The soft power of architectural propaganda is a powerful tool of ideological enterprise, and here Novoa provokes an understanding of society's trajectory as a metaphor of history repeating itself.

As the chemicals oxidize, the fabric combusts and forms a target pattern, a powerful metaphor for the volatile times in America's history.

Experiencing Washington's work is a kind of visual excavation, as the intricate layers convey a subtle yet powerful metaphor.

Water, which can hide by covering up, reveal by erosion, or act as a medium for mixing disparate elements, has become a powerful metaphor in his present series, which suggests the interpenetration between urban social exchange and physical structures.

Using imagery of mammies, pickninnies, sambos and other racial stereotypes, these silhouettes present a powerful metaphor which she describes as something that «says a lot with very little information».

As a rule we don't, for example, use metaphor — a particularly powerful tool for communicating complicated concepts in a simple and accessible way — nearly enough.

EcCT presents the couple with generative metaphors that serve as powerful images to anchor the journey of relational transformation.

Metaphors are powerful because they help us see the situation from a new perspective, and they give us creativity with language as we try to describe and understand complex feelings.