Sentences with phrase «central metaphor in»

The central metaphor in the book is that of a half - finished map: the moment a new island or country gets charted by cartographers, it becomes reduced in some indefinable way... and that's sad.

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The city is a central metaphor and theme in Christianity.

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.

But the meaning which this form of expression is intended to convey must be illuminated from the central point of the proclamation, not by disregarding these forms of expression but, if I may be pardoned the metaphor, in continuous dialogue with it.

Every succeeding line in the poem modifies and enriches the central metaphor of renewal.

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.

It is, in other words, the central metaphor of Ready Player One that Spielberg has inserted himself here wrestling with the ghost of Kubrick, someone he really admired and presumably did the work he wanted to do but didn't; the mentor who did not, at the end of his life, appear to reciprocate completely Spielberg's admiration.

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.

The metaphor reiterates the central question — will Logan or someone else get to Gal in one way or another?

Determining Central Ideas in Text: Writers don't always say things directly or literally; sometimes they convey their ideas indirectly (e.g., metaphor, satire, irony).

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.

If you DO work in education, the term is a metaphor for a city - based nonprofit that plays a central role in funding and coordinating high - impact education initiatives.

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.

The central metaphor of the exhibition is that of a bruise, which shows up in Byron Kim's Innocence over Blue (2016)-- a painting about a bruise — and Ligon's A Small Band (2016), a neon light installation of the words: «blues,» «blood» and «bruise,» not to mention the Armstrong song that helped inspire the show.

Conductor John Myers — straight out of «downtown New York central casting, circa 1984,» according to one pal — summoned an at - times - unholy noise from the six hundred assembled strings, and the music's power conjured a litany of metaphors, all describing moments verging on abandon: His calisthenic conducting elicited a tidal surge of synchronized nodding heads; the performers then inspired him to feats of excitement that could compete with Christian - revival praise dancing; his attempts to rein in the players for quieter passages gave the impression of a lion tamer placating a feisty animal.

The well in the poem becomes a metaphor for memory, and the vegetation that chokes its mouth represents the show's central question: in the act of remembering, how do we distinguish the shining surface from the shadowy depths?

2012 Artist Talk, In the Balance, LACMA Muse Program, Hollywood, 2009 Guest Lecturer, Machine in the Garden, Hollywood, CA Guest lecturer, Professional Practices, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2008 Dinner and Conversation with the Artist (7 participating artists) Republic Restaurant, Hollywood, CA Artist Talk, the Lucent Dossier Project, Glass Garage Gallery, Hollywood, CA 2007 Guest Lecturer, Glass Garage Gallery, Hollywood, CA 2006 Guest Lecturer, Woman Painters of Washington Association, Ellensburg, WA 2005 Guest Lecturer / Critic Trialogue, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN Guest Lecturer / Workshop on Mental Imaging, Bloomington Art Center, MN Guest Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Larson Gallery, St. Paul, MN Guest Lecturer / Workshop on Mental Imaging, Rochester Arts Center, Rochester, MN 2004 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN Guest Lecturer, Central Illinois State College, East Peoria, IL Guest Lecturer, Prairie Arts Center, Princeton, IL Guest Lecturer, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN Juror, Annual Student Exhibition, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN 2003 Visiting Artist, North Dakota University, Fargo, ND Guest Lecturer, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND Guest Artist, Rolling Plains Exhibition at Lester Prairie, MN 2002 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Another Twist, Winona State University, MN 2001 Guest Lecturer, Twist of Minnesota, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Visiting Artist, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Guest Lecturer, «Layers of Myth and Metaphor», U. of M., Minneapolis, MN 1997 Guest Lecturer, Community College at Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD 1997 Guest Lecturer, U. of M., Minneapolis, In the Balance, LACMA Muse Program, Hollywood, 2009 Guest Lecturer, Machine in the Garden, Hollywood, CA Guest lecturer, Professional Practices, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2008 Dinner and Conversation with the Artist (7 participating artists) Republic Restaurant, Hollywood, CA Artist Talk, the Lucent Dossier Project, Glass Garage Gallery, Hollywood, CA 2007 Guest Lecturer, Glass Garage Gallery, Hollywood, CA 2006 Guest Lecturer, Woman Painters of Washington Association, Ellensburg, WA 2005 Guest Lecturer / Critic Trialogue, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN Guest Lecturer / Workshop on Mental Imaging, Bloomington Art Center, MN Guest Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Larson Gallery, St. Paul, MN Guest Lecturer / Workshop on Mental Imaging, Rochester Arts Center, Rochester, MN 2004 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN Guest Lecturer, Central Illinois State College, East Peoria, IL Guest Lecturer, Prairie Arts Center, Princeton, IL Guest Lecturer, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN Juror, Annual Student Exhibition, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN 2003 Visiting Artist, North Dakota University, Fargo, ND Guest Lecturer, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND Guest Artist, Rolling Plains Exhibition at Lester Prairie, MN 2002 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Another Twist, Winona State University, MN 2001 Guest Lecturer, Twist of Minnesota, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Visiting Artist, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Guest Lecturer, «Layers of Myth and Metaphor», U. of M., Minneapolis, MN 1997 Guest Lecturer, Community College at Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD 1997 Guest Lecturer, U. of M., Minneapolis, in the Garden, Hollywood, CA Guest lecturer, Professional Practices, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2008 Dinner and Conversation with the Artist (7 participating artists) Republic Restaurant, Hollywood, CA Artist Talk, the Lucent Dossier Project, Glass Garage Gallery, Hollywood, CA 2007 Guest Lecturer, Glass Garage Gallery, Hollywood, CA 2006 Guest Lecturer, Woman Painters of Washington Association, Ellensburg, WA 2005 Guest Lecturer / Critic Trialogue, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN Guest Lecturer / Workshop on Mental Imaging, Bloomington Art Center, MN Guest Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Larson Gallery, St. Paul, MN Guest Lecturer / Workshop on Mental Imaging, Rochester Arts Center, Rochester, MN 2004 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN Guest Lecturer, Central Illinois State College, East Peoria, IL Guest Lecturer, Prairie Arts Center, Princeton, IL Guest Lecturer, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN Juror, Annual Student Exhibition, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN 2003 Visiting Artist, North Dakota University, Fargo, ND Guest Lecturer, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND Guest Artist, Rolling Plains Exhibition at Lester Prairie, MN 2002 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Another Twist, Winona State University, MN 2001 Guest Lecturer, Twist of Minnesota, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Visiting Artist, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Guest Lecturer, «Layers of Myth and Metaphor», U. of M., Minneapolis, MN 1997 Guest Lecturer, Community College at Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD 1997 Guest Lecturer, U. of M., Minneapolis, MN

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.

The paintings shown were all made in the 1980s and 1990s and expand our understanding of the themes and metaphors which are central to Oxlade's practice along with his use of bold colour and improvised image.

The metaphor helps intuitively explain a statistical approach that is central in debates about the underlying nature of temperament (intelligence (e.g., «g»), personality (e.g., big 5), and attitudes (e.g., ABC model).