Sentences with phrase «better animal metaphor»

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This sort of talk about immigrants has become more and more acceptable, but we would do well to remind ourselves that it is not acceptable to use animal or geographic metaphors about immigrants.

In a skilful reading of the way the dingo has entered Aboriginal stories and mythology, Meryll Parker, whose PhD thesis was on the animal, shows how it appears in myths as a fitting metaphor for humans, capable of love, affection, good parenting, loyalty and cooperation.

In his Traps series, Lockett used the predicament of ensnared animals as a metaphor for specific modern - day crises, such as segregation and environmental destruction, as well as the more general human condition of feeling isolated or trapped by the circumstances of birth.