Sentences with phrase «complex metaphor for»

Rather, it is an impressive, complex metaphor for life and evolution, inspiring its viewers to contemplate how atoms create worlds as seeds give rise to life.

The show will illustrate the artist's use of the stroke as both a compositional element and as a complex metaphor for the history of art.

Text: Marlborough Broome Street is pleased to present Walk - ins Welcome, a group exhibition that considers the barbershop as a complex metaphor for social space and imaginary projection.

Not exact matches

Literary scholars often treat analogies as simply more complex versions of metaphors, but for Przywara, they take comparisons in opposite directions: what metaphors bring together, analogies keep far apart.

is the book we have all been waiting for: hopeful, inclusive, practical, theological, honest talk about the complex sacrament of marriage as both reality to be lived and metaphor to be embodied.

Young Americans, in their wholesale rejection of traditional values, dismissed pro sports as a metaphor for aggression (and as a tool with which the military - industrial complex could whip up a blind frenzy of patriotism), but they still had Reggie, who wore an Afro and flipped his owner, Charley Finley, the bird as he crossed the plate.

Metaphors, for example, can be very useful for conveying complex topics, but, Ivens notes, it can be tricky to develop one that is accurate without getting bogged down in whether it holds at the smallest level of detail.

The film garnered rave reviews for its layered psychodrama within a noir genre piece, as well as its complex, interwoven metaphors involving survivor trauma, denial in the face of unspeakable horror, and the instability of love.

The film and The Oasis become one oversized metaphor on how hard it is for shy guys to kiss girls and stuff, and embodies the very myopia of not seeing women as complete, complex beings beyond the adoration directed at them.

It seems necessary to call bullshit on Rowe's assertion, in the film's press notes, that Leap Year is a metaphor «for the complex victimizer - victim dichotomy that I think is at the very heart of Mexican national identity,» if only because that theme, so explicitly milked for maximum operatic verismo in Battle in Heaven, isn't being worked out on this particular film's screen.

But this one specifically became a metaphor for the prison - industrial complex, the lack of representation of black people in film, in genre.

He understands, too, his place in the nostalgia industrial complex; just as his Jurassic Park doubled as a metaphor for the whole movie industry, The Oasis refracts the underlying anxiety of throwback culture.

This is a complex idea in Buddhism and so the aim here is for students to focus on the metaphor of this links as chains that can trap us on the wheel of life.

I added more complex short answer questions and a creative writing task asking my students to write a metaphor for their lives.

Reading is a complex and ill - structured domain; it cries out for the sorts of multiple models and metaphors documented as necessary in other ill - structured domains such as medicine and film criticism (Spiro & Jehng, 1990).

Barceló deems it a metaphor for our complex world.

It stands for a lost homeland reclaimed, and another homeland lost — and as a metaphor for many of today's complex international relationships.

The bold color, pattern, and texture of the artist's paintings serve as a metaphor for the complex merging of relationships and cultural backgrounds that contribute to the artist's sense of self.

Miraculously no one was hurt, but the trauma of the incident — the explosion of violence amidst that expression of the values we hold dear as a society — emerged as a metaphor for this complex city.»

A recurring image among the 29 works here is derived from a 17th - century engraving of two men viewing a dragon from different vantage points — a metaphor for Polke's own complex demands on viewers.

In contrast, Pask's reworking of Beat it shows two gangs of Lithuanian and Dutch art students acting out the dance routine as an accessible metaphor for complex political issues surrounding the entrance of countries into Europe and the subsequent formation of a new superstate.

Tapping into these instincts, combined with the human capacity for complex memory and the ability to extrapolate, Campbell experiments with digital representation as a metaphor for the transmutation of data into knowledge.

If the colors and materials serve as metaphor for childlike naiveté, perhaps we can be reminded of a time we were unencumbered by complex, imperfect influences.

From a search for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's hidden treasure and a speakeasy bar in Berlin to a vision quest into the Sonora desert and a trip to the Mayan homelands in Southern Mexico to experience the end of the world, Sarabia's new video / film installation will not only revisit the artist's complex oeuvre but depict how popular culture, personal histories, and ordinary events can be potent metaphors to understand the complexities of moments of cultural contact and exchange.

That project uses the bodies of the artist, her mother, and her grandmother both to reveal complex intergenerational relationships and to serve as a metaphor for their town's decay.

The duplicity of meaning inherent in the imagery of chain, a symbol of oppression yet also a metaphor for cultural linkage, lends complex narrative to the modernist forms.

The Ladders evokes a recurring theme for Louise Bourgeois, whose complex work delves into psychosexual metaphor, twisted bodies, and personalized iconography.

With different approaches, the artists reflect about the forest as a mythical border to foreign worlds, as well as a metaphor for the complex emotional spheres of the modern individual.

In Pask's reworking of Michael Jackson's seminal music video «Beat it», two gangs of Lithuanian and Dutch art students act out the dance routine as an accessible metaphor for complex political issues surrounding the entrance of countries into Europe and the subsequent formation of a new superstate.

Using institutional histories as the staging ground for complex proposals, the London - based Polish artist delves into the Walker's past, foregrounding the institution's early link to the lumber business in which its founder flourished while considering the forest as a metaphor for American democracy and freedom.

According to Lynas, Gaia is a metaphor for a «universal scientific principle»: the emergent property of self - organisation in complex systems.