Sentences with phrase «bigger metaphor for»

I have always wondered if it is all a big metaphor for clinical depression, because its so accurate.

The song is a big metaphor for the final act and growing up in general.

If you have read any reviews or seen any coverage of this game, then you know that this is all a big metaphor for mental illness.

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Hard to believe a big company would toy with such grim imagery — but apparently it's all a metaphor for Mozilla's battle with Microsoft (MSFT) Internet Explorer, referred to throughout as «Mammon.»

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

Whether someone wishes to believe that God orchestrates the process of evolution, or that God provided the divine spark from which life on Earth first sprung 3.5 billion years ago, or that «Let There Be Light» is a metaphor for the Big Bang, is really none of my concern.

Is the creation story in Genesis a metaphor for the Big Bang?

What if the BIG TICKET miracles (cures, resurrections) are just metaphors for the important stuff we keep missing?

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

I hoped I wasn't a big old metaphor for putting ministry first, but I was comforted by the knowledge that Joe would eat his body weight in sausage if I let him, and really, it's just what they like, and honestly, who cares?

Processing towards life is my metaphor for cosmic evolution from a relatively undifferentiated universe right after the big bang, for example a universe consisting of hydrogen atoms only.

«It became a metaphor for impossibility in the state, that somehow along the way we lost our ability to take on big projects and get big things done.»

For physics in particular, the «big ideas» conveyed via clever analogies and metaphors rarely reveal the richness of the mathematical foundations underlying them.

It's new Neighborhood functions as a metaphor for the entire game itself, in that it seems like a big addition to the game but you quickly realize it's pretty much just an empty shopping mall and a distraction from the actual game.

«The Donovans have a new big dog in their home, which is a not so subtle metaphor for the absence of Ray.»

If this is a true metaphor for how mankind is dealing with limited resources then we are all in big trouble.

Their aim is to prepare for the coming conflagration against arch big - bad Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), though their crowning triumph is as a metaphor for how ill - served are our children by a steady diet of pabulum, platitude, and Pollyannaism.

Condon attempts to use metaphors for the significance of each act through a series of visuals of a virtual room of users, all of whom seem to be Assange himself, a nod to the fact that Assange was a chihuahua puffed up to try to look like a big dog through the creation of a bunch of alias sources claiming to be working for WikiLeaks.

That makes it an ideal metaphor for science fiction itself, a genre that refracts big notions through impossible, out - there conceits.

Ramin weaves an intricate family melodrama which acts as a metaphor for the bigger geopolitical problem facing the Midwestern farming communities.

7 — McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD), Robert Altman's third film since staking out his claim on 1970s cinema with M * A * S * H (1970), turns the western myth into a metaphor for the fantasy of the American Dream colliding with the power of big business.

In this trailer for his Netflix animated series Big Mouth, Nick Kroll plays a teenager who is plagued by a literal hormone monster, and if that sounds like a fun metaphor for puberty, then you should probably watch the trailer.

As a metaphor for retooling the mechanics of storytelling in the face of big - budget disaster, it's perfect.

Sports movies almost always hang on the big game or match as some kind of metaphor for a real social battle.

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.

I'd like to think that if home burglaries were stomped out at their source, there would be less people moving onto bigger crimes like bank robberies (A metaphor for anybody thinking about moving from Kotaku to IGN)

The fug of metaphor lies thick over this island — each chapter ends with your character running towards the blinding light of a giant keyhole, for instance — and Rime uses its small protagonist to explore some big issues: life, death, grief, responsibility.

I am thinking of objects in nature such as rocks, water, branches or a big fat sun / moon - as part of the narrative in these paintings and acting as metaphor for human interaction and strength of feeling.

It's a cultural response to its own environment that acts as a metaphor for a bigger global geopolitical crisis point, suggesting a new period of reconstruction, a digitally - conscious Modernism as a form of survivalism for the post-truth era.

It made me think that after all this story of Athens, apparently, the Documenta 14 curator was only interested in Athens as a metaphor, and nothing will be left of this big event for the Greeks.

The artist sees this black hole, which could be fearsome, as a metaphor for the beginning of everything, the Big Bang that gives rise to life.

In Big Windows: Skin: Portals, Nicola López draws on her recent monumental installation In Gentle Defiance of Gravity and Form at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, to explore architecture as a metaphor for the human experience on both societal and individual levels.

If the bigger - and - bigger avalanche is the main metaphor for positive feedback, then the prosaic household thermostat is the main metaphor for negative feedback.

And we are really using that boldness as a bigger message, as a metaphor for us humans: that if walruses and bears can figure out a way to adapt and survive and carry on in this warming world, then why can't we do the same in our lives?

Flipboard's new iPhone app turns its bigger brother's page - turning metaphor 90 degrees for a new vertical flip that feels more like a Rolodex than a magazine, and introduces new algorithms to block out less relevant or duplicate content for on - the - go consumption.

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For any who have taken this training, you know that metaphor plays a big role in understanding and explaining what happens during a peaceful divorce mediation process.

Other users, she says, are not yet comfortable storing precious photographs or sensitive private data on the «cloud» — a metaphor for the vast network of Internet - connected servers that can be networked by big companies like Google, Amazon or Microsoft to run software or store data.