Sentences with phrase «clear metaphor for»

With the darkness of the night as a clear metaphor for the obscure problems that the city has, and with a ball of fire seen as a ray of hope, Francis Alÿs doesn't offer quick solutions to problems.

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On this occasion, as on previous occasions, Trump made it clear what the song meant: it was a metaphor for immigrants.

The metaphors were clear and painful for Mayor Bill de Blasio's first budget war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a master of Albany's byzantine backrooms — Mr. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, had schooled the upstart Mr. de Blasio this year, securing new and unprecedented protections for charter schools, denying Mr. de Blasio a tax hike to fund his universal prekindergarten expansion and swatting away a demand for a municipal minimum wage increase barely after the words had left the mayor's mouth at his maiden State of the City address.

But I think of all the metaphors you've used to this point for explaining insulin's role in switching between burning food in versus fat, this one is the clearest.

The sheer amount of metaphors batted about, ranging from outdated to absurd (and indeed often both), are clear for all to see.

There's an obvious carnality metaphor here (college is a time for experimentation) and there's a clear entertainment factor in watching a meek character assert herself.

The premise involves a shapeshifting monster that stalks its targets until they have sex, passing on the curse to someone else, and though a generation ago, this would seem like a fairly clear - cut AIDS metaphor, Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover) makes it at once more complicated (for instance, after killing a target, the titular It begins stalking the previous one again) and more primal, a locus for all kinds of sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genre.

It's also an apt metaphor for the optimism among a host of dreamers who seem to be perpetually caught in life's traffic jam, hoping things will clear up so that they can finally get to their intended destinstion.

And as I'm writing it becomes clear that the sunken place is this metaphor for the system that is suppressing the freedom of black people, of many outsiders, many minorities.

I think it's pretty clear that it's a metaphor for the film... only, what's now on the outside?

The metaphor is clear for the kids: If they don't have an opportunity to demonstrate their learning based on their interests and skill levels, «they're not going to run as fast as they could.»

It offers a new paradigm for gender and trauma (but let's be clear: Emezi has stated that «none of this is a metaphor for mental illness.»).

The flat plane of the field, with its painted boundaries can be seen as a metaphor for the canvas — and in this way the painting becomes self - reflexive and the act of painting itself the true subject of the work, thus demonstrating a clear tension between the image and its reference point.

There is a clear feminist reading of the act: By marrying a stone, a metaphor for permanence, Emin has enacted a cry for all women to be content with being by themselves.

She frequently uses archaeological objects as a metaphor for the human mind and there is a clear exploration of the human psyche and a search for material that is repressed.

A layer cake was another metaphor used for the exhibition, so it was clear all along that they wanted the three curators to do their own thing and be three distinct voices.

This pioneer Abstract Expressionist of the first generation, stresses symbolism in a clear and explicit way, revealing an immediately recognizable system of personal metaphors for his mystic vision.

For people who've been having trouble understanding the radiation crisis in Japan, maybe an animated video that uses poop as a metaphor for radiation will help clear things For people who've been having trouble understanding the radiation crisis in Japan, maybe an animated video that uses poop as a metaphor for radiation will help clear things for radiation will help clear things up.

«From heaven he has sent fire into my bones,» wrote Jeremiah, and it's clear from the context — replete with extravagant metaphors for all sorts of suffering — that this was not a good thing.

She points to a snippet of Koh «explaining the need for clear, stable legal rules, by way of a fantastic metaphor about allowing his son to borrow the car.»