Sentences with phrase «great metaphor for»

The garden is a great metaphor for my work on creating caring learning communities with my kid's schools.

If abstract painting, to quote Matthew Collings on Mali Morris, is about «constantly coming up with visual metaphors for experience», and the artist's job is to produce this metaphor - world «in the form of visual pleasure, or beauty», that's a great metaphor for what Mali Morris does.

That wall is a great metaphor for the differences in how we perceive problems.

«[Matt] really wanted to put the audience into the head of being a chimpanzee because that's what these movies are about, they are a great metaphor for being able to see ourselves,» Andy told ABC7.

He wants us to appreciate the differences, which I think is a great metaphor for life in general.

You asking me to «step into the clothing rack» was a great metaphor for putting my own concerns about my «look,» aside.

I bring up surfing because I think it's a great metaphor for the progression to living a healthier life.

It's such a great metaphor for life: Some days you're going to score, and some days you're going to fall flat on your face no matter how hard you try.

The Iceman wandering off into the desert afterwards wasn't only a great metaphor for his season so far, it also made for some amusing reactions on social media.

In particular, the experience of being pregnant and giving birth, while never easy, became the great metaphor for how I encountered God.

It's a great metaphor for entrepreneurship because to get to that next level in your business you've got to go against your inner core and fight through your emotions.

Bridges make great metaphors for connection, as in «bridging our differences» and «building bridges.»

As perverse as any Hitchcock film and one of the greatest metaphors for cinema ever filmed.

At 15, there was no greater metaphor for what I was feeling than a slow, terrifying journey across the ocean.

Not exact matches

«An Italian Family Dinner is a brilliant metaphor for the type of culture we need at Saatchi to be a great creative agency,» says Smart.

It's a metaphor for affecting the humility of a novice, a willingness to learn new things despite having already found great success.

Gardening might not be the first place you'd think to look for productivity metaphors, but Hertling has unearthed a great one from the wisdom of farmers.

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As we make our way through the Book of Hebrews with its glittering and sometimes confusing images of sacrifices and great high priests and its extended metaphor of Jesus as that priest who makes all other priests unnecessary, the following verses come to us with a remarkable clarity and freshness: «Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.»

But, below the surface, they are — like all great sci - fi — sharp social allegories and metaphors for human nature and real anxieties.

Granted, most men might grasp a sports or business metaphor before anything else, but we're also capable of greater emotional understanding than many pastors give us credit for.

To him, the story of Jehovah's wonders is only a dead metaphor, and the great story of science is enough for Hawking, as it has been for many others.

at the risk of reaching critical mass on metaphors, he's missing the forest for the trees in his attempts to get people to pay to see some one finally defeat Brock Clean (the true job of great heel work is to make people pay to watch you get beat)

While the phrase «Netflix and chill,» may be, in some communities, a metaphor for more than movie watching, sometimes you really do want to share a first date over a great film.

Someday, maybe someday soon, someone in Hollywood is going to make a genuinely great movie about television as a metaphor for America.

The hole could be a metaphor for a lot of things, including our general ignorance of life's great mysteries.

A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you can not see.

Michael Douglas presented The Social Network with the Golden Globe for Best Picture of the Year - Drama and producer Scott Rudin accepted the award, saying: «Thanks (to) everybody at Facebook, especially to Mark Zuckerberg for providing us a great metaphor about how we relate to each other, today, in our lives.»

The most dramatic of which is the turning of the leaves, an aesthetically stunning metaphor and some great advertising for the state of New York as a holiday destination.

I have no idea what political metaphors for Chinese - American relations are buried in the gravyish CGI fog of The Great Wall (Universal, 12), a Hollywood - China co-production that meshes historical warfare, monster - movie fantasy and Matt Damonic heroism to eccentric but turgid effect, marking a career low for director Zhang Yimou.

And it's a tough week: Jean reveals he's pregnant with his child; he's saddled carrying the Gorfeins» cat after it escapes out the door, and accidentally locks the door behind him after staying the night (a great running gag that eventually turns into a lovely metaphor for Llewyn's journey); he's chasing payments from Legacy and trying to line up some gigs.

The transformation of the Thanksgiving celebration is a metaphor for a greater change in the entire school, suggests Bassett.

Progressing Toward the Destination Drawing in metaphors is a great way for teachers to self - reflect and acknowledge where they fall on the continuum.

In a way my birth date, squarely astride the calendar year, was a metaphor for my subsequent life, one foot always being dragged back to the deaf world, the silent world of my father and of my mother, from whose womb I had just emerged, and the other trying to stride forward into the greater world of the hearing, to escape into the world destined to be my own.

Traditionally published authors get the benefit of an editor (hopefully), a great designer, high quality printing (for special, novelty cover effects that are increasingly used by traditional publishers to stand out from the horde), and distribution to bookstores — the perfect storm to catch a potential buyer and rope them in (sorry for mixing metaphors).

Show Description: Playing on the metaphor for our need for variety foods, each hour is a curated look at great albums (not singles) from remarkable artists in a variety of styles, both indie and mainstream.

It's merely used as a metaphor for something that I consider to be a greater problem in the gaming industry, so read on to catch my drift.

The wall is part of an installation by the Whitney's David Kiehl that privileges interior spaces — as metaphor and as room for sculpture — but the photos suggest a greater continuity in Kusama's self - images and her art.

Her larger interest is in the questions that are raised when the process of making art becomes a metaphor for something greater.

Charles Gaines, «Faces 1: Identity Politics» Opens: 6 — 8 p.m., Paula Cooper, 521 West 21st Street What you should know: The African - American conceptual artist presents a series of portraits of some of the great philosophers of identity, from Aristotle to bell hooks, with each new thinker's face layered on their predecessors, an elegant metaphor for the faulty notion of a clearly delineated self, and for the way we're all partly determined by those who came before.

Blogging can be a great place for lawyers to discover how to do this, to break free of the iron claw of Latin and dead English, to use creative language, to employ metaphor, simile, allegory, and character development, to discover the storyteller within, to really connect with the reader.