Sentences with phrase «interesting metaphor for»

Medical Biller Steve Verno, an experienced independent medical billing business consultant, instructor and author has provided an interesting metaphor for us to understand what medical billing is all about.

«One of the experiences that I had when I was doing this, the first iteration of the project, was that people were realizing that they didn't even understand much about woven cloth and that becomes this interesting metaphor for how much we understand about racial dynamics in this nation,» Clark says in a Nasher Museum podcast.

That seems like an interesting metaphor for his situation.

At first an interesting metaphor for bigotry, the show has gradually moved further away from any significant resonance beyond escapism as it layered on werewolves, shape - shifters, faeries and witches, creating a teeming roster of «supernaturals» in its small - town environs.

One of the reasons that I love fantastic genre film is that it can often find the most relevant and interesting metaphors for dealing with issues of social life, be they cultural, political, or sexual.

Not exact matches

Using your metaphor of the house burning brings up some interesting connections for me.

Luke's special interest in journeys invites us to see his description of the Christian life as a metaphor for a phased journey which it is the ministry of the prophets to «strengthen» (Acts 15:32).

Smith's famous «invisible hand» metaphor for how the pursuit of self - interest can lead to overall social benefit takes for granted the conditions of justice, trust and community that allow for mutual exchange.

While the apparent subject of Living by Fiction is thus modern fiction, Dillard seems more interested in the notion of fiction as a metaphor for culture and creativity.

Ironically, this is an apt metaphor for Judt's entire life: the son of Eastern European Jews who never felt completely at home in England; an autodidact at Cambridge who never learned historiography or became part of a dedicated «school»; an expert by training in French social thought with serious and evolving interests in Eastern European history; and an American denizen and critic without the faintest bond to the United States.

Ordinary people seem to love using idioms, metaphors and figurative speech, whether to aid communication or simply to make life more interesting, whereas for autistic people they simply make no sense.

The initial premise is interesting enough, but of course it's all a metaphor for Swanberg's rumination on marriage — how the deeper you dig in any relationship, the more trouble you're bound to find.

The soul of Romero's flicks — of all good zombie flicks — lies in their social awareness and in the ultimate feeling that whatever chills and thrills enjoyed along the way, it was all a metaphor for something more interesting than an end - of - days high concept.

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 is ideal for GCSE and A Level students, as it contains detailed and comprehensive sections (including explanations, examples and key questions) on: Content - Subject Matter, Context, Tone, Atmosphere, The Poet; Language - Similes, Metaphors, Interesting Adjectives, Interesting Verbs, Imagery, Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Assonance, Personification, Hyperbole, Oxymoron, Repetition; Form and Strcuture - Common Forms, Rhyme / Rhyme Schemes, Metre, Rhythm, Stanzas, Line Type, Line Length.

For the iron triangle metaphor to apply, however, the interests and desires of the producer groups that form the triangle must differ from those of the general public.

For political analysts, the iron triangle is the perfect metaphor for characterizing one of the strongest, most stable, and most pervasive aspects of American politics — the connection among producer interests, elected officials, and actions taken by government agenciFor political analysts, the iron triangle is the perfect metaphor for characterizing one of the strongest, most stable, and most pervasive aspects of American politics — the connection among producer interests, elected officials, and actions taken by government agencifor characterizing one of the strongest, most stable, and most pervasive aspects of American politics — the connection among producer interests, elected officials, and actions taken by government agencies.

The one exception is «Landfall», a story about how a horrible hurricane approaching the Alabama coastline is a metaphor for one family and the effect it has on them, where I felt that the multiple characters swirling around each other were an interesting parallel to the hurricane at the center of the events.

But the birds he saw were only thinking about themselves and their own food, a metaphor for officials who were only concerned about their own interests as they all converged on the court.

The work is a reference to early anthropological ideas about otherness and the way the «savage» mind understands words and graphic representations, as well as a metaphor for France's interest in the «other» during the colonial era.

While the intense experience of looking at Wilson's work may resonate with the strange intimacy we have with computer screens, the artist is less interested in visual metaphors for media interfaces, and more interested in the intersections of landscape, process, and time.

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.

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

By casting jagged reflections on gallery walls, they create a striking visual metaphor for Santiago Muñoz's interest in breaking and transforming conventional images of the Caribbean — and specifically, her native Puerto Rico.

Drawn to symbol and metaphor, her academic interest in Judaism focused on identity markers of daily life — particularly clothing and hair — for insight into views on sexuality, beauty and modesty.

The fact that hermit crabs occupy shells discarded by other species is another source of interest to the artist, who sees in this special relationship a metaphor for our human condition.

The similarities Twombly saw and that this exhibition makes explicit include what Lewison lists as: «An interest in allusion and metaphor, a preoccupation with mortality, a liking for atmospheric effects and an engagement with the tradition of the sublime.»

This is an interesting social metaphor for me.

He is interested in experimenting with expectations, relativity, and assumptions of what is fixed versus in flux; these themes become metaphors for imagination, memory, nostalgia, and obsession.

As a release from Amos Eno Gallery points out: «March has been, and continues to be, interested in creating visual art that can transcend the physicality of the material surface and be a vehicle or emotional and intellectual contemplation and interpretation, as well as a metaphor for the fragility of human existence.»

Her sculpture, often large installations, is informed by an ongoing interest in the anonymity of women's piece - work and has evolved into an obsessive repetition of form, whether in hand - crafted roses, made petal by petal, or in glazed and fired cowrie shells made from watermelon molds that evoke both ancient artifacts and open - ended metaphors for the female body.

[I] am interested in juxtaposing disparate elements as a metaphor of the need for diverse ideas to coexist.

This is also an issue for gay artists like Lari Pittman and Mark Bradford, who share an interest in the figure of Pinocchio along with Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelly, Jim Shaw, and Koons: All of them have done work with Pinocchio as a metaphor for not being a real man, being a boy.

However, Zajac's interest in exploring such imagery in the 1950s and1960s was not for religious reasons, but more as a metaphor for the turbulent post-war world that feared nuclear escalation and the possibility of an apocalyptic ending.

Its used as a metaphor for the way news is transient and that the public interest is rarely maintained in a story over time.

His interests also include all aspects of climate, including climate science outreach and the interface between science and public policy (see, for example, his article in Climatic Change on «Medical Metaphors for Climate Issues «-RRB-.