Sentences with phrase «into metaphors for»

From masquerading in disguise before the camera to turning mirrors on the audience, she turns doubling and reflection into metaphors for the tenuous divide between subjective and objective vision, and the loss of fixed identities.

In her works, buttons and pins become more than mundane, mass - produced items; they are transformed into metaphors for human freedom.

Reski enacts his own succumbing to the onslaught of contemporary pop - cultural imagery as a theatrical backdrop in which to plant images that distil desperation into metaphors for desperation.

Through her artistic practice, Asawa reconnects with the Buddhist ethos of her parents, transforming the commonplace into metaphors for life processes themselves.

Held to be China's video pioneer, Zhang Peili's Uncertain Pleasure ll (1996) works the small screen into metaphors for anxiety with a six - channel, 12 - part stream that magnifies hands scratching various body parts raw.

It's a truth that has been spiritualised away, as his teaching on debt is too swiftly turned into metaphors for sin.

Always did like camping in the wilderness — who knew it would turn into a metaphor for my life?

Don't focus on the Hail Mary, as tempting as it is to turn that oh - so - close Jeff George reception into a metaphor for the season.

Theresa May's much - heralded cabinet reshuffle swiftly turned into a metaphor for her administration.

Killmonger desires not only to turn the Kingdom into a metaphor for American military invasion through the export of war, but to do so via explicitly American-esque military and governmental methods: destabilizing a vulnerable state during a handover of power, employing foreign sleeper agents to enact political will.

7 — McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD), Robert Altman's third film since staking out his claim on 1970s cinema with M * A * S * H (1970), turns the western myth into a metaphor for the fantasy of the American Dream colliding with the power of big business.

Blunt puts us in a small Canadian town in the dead of winter and makes us feel the cold, then turns the cold into a metaphor for the destruction of young lives.

The figure dissolves into a metaphor for all political leaders who have failed in their vain attempt to better the world.

A play on «digging a hole to China,» the work neatly turned an idiom connoting a futile pursuit into a metaphor for possibility.

Not exact matches

It's a metaphor for what Kia, a company associated with affordability, is trying to do to consumers» perception of the brand as it expands into the luxury market.

Despite his penchant for flowery prose and, at times, odd metaphors in his popular monthly investment outlooks, Gross seems to have taken to the new media communication tool, posting a number of tweets in recent months that have even played into rap mogul - style feuds with well - known academics.

The conventional image of the railway as a national project owes much to the appeal of Pierre Berton's books, which drew on its construction — with all the blood, sweat and scandal that went into it — as a metaphor for nation building, a physical extension of Confederation into western Canada.

You guys (C N N) must have worked hard trying to figure out how to turn the empty chair into a positive metaphor for Obama... It must be difficult, day in and day out, trying to paint Obama as a success vs the unmitigated disaster that he is.

You guys (C N N) must have stayed up all night trying to figure out how to turn the empty chair into a positive metaphor for Obama... It must be hard, day in and day out, trying to paint Obama as a success vs the unmitigated disaster that he is.

Her book Metaphor and Religious Language (Oxford University Press) argues for taking biblical metaphors seriously and for not translating them into some other idiom.

And both analogies are fitting metaphors for the Internet users lurking in comment threads, baiting others into pointless, un-winnable arguments.

(I apologize to those that dislike metaphors, but I almost can't communicate if I don't get to use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the language of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).

For me to appear to you as a woman and suggest that you call me Papa is simply to mix metaphors, to help you keep from falling so easily back into your religious conditioning... To reveal myself to you as a very large, white grandfather figure with flowing beard, like Gandalf, would simply reinforce your religious stereotypes, and this weekend is not about reinforcing your religious stereotypes.»

The univocal and equivocal imaginations deny metaphor, deny that any new insight can come through the ordinary — the one flattens it to sameness, the other escapes from it — but what Lynch calls the analogical imagination delves into the mundane, for it is precisely in and through the complexities of historical, limited existence that insight comes, if it comes at all.

Tell you what, you come find me when you use that Bible to actually make a testable prediction in advance, rather than waiting for other people to do all the hard work and then glumming onto it and trying to back - wedge it into your va gue metaphors.

I'm always entertained by Christians who take metaphor like the creation myth and turn it into divine truth and direction for their belief, yet take divine direction like «sell what you have and give it to the poor,» and call it metaphor.

Thus the process of growth itself is a reversal of the state in which the mustard seed once was, and leading into the fulfillment of a process.59 Such use of metaphor, as that of the mustard seed, «is truly revolutionary and unprecedented, for it seeks to reverse the hearer's normal expectation.

But teaching that course was a lightning bolt to me: all sorts of things fell into place, and without intending to (or having the time for it), I wrote the first draft of another book, Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology (Fortress Press, 1975).

The well - known river metaphor, according to which there are many rivers that, ultimately, flow into the same ocean, is turned critically against the other pluralists by Panikkar: Jordan, Tiber and Ganges, metaphors for three types of religion, only meet as steam in the clouds: «Religions do not coalesce, certainly not as organized religions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and the Ganges.

And for those going into the secondary teaching, or who'd just like to get a sense of how American teenagers really are when asked about serious things, I'm sure the book he wrote based upon his years of teaching, Meetings at the Metaphor Café, is very much worth reading.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

Pick a metaphor or passage and turn it into something literal then condemn others for not seeing it your way.

These cookies came into the public eye on a Seinfeld episode where he was eating a Black & White and said,» Look to the cookie,» as a metaphor for racial harmony.

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.

I mean, yeah, a dead baby would be like 1000x more offensive and emotionally difficult for viewers, but the metaphor holds better, and if you want to guilt us dirty bottle feeders into making our boobs work or forgoing our mental health meds or suffering through rape flashbacks or never - ending mastitis or simply not enjoying how we feed our babies, then a picture of a dead baby will be much more effective.

We need to move towards an educational paradigm that promotes an «ocean model of civilisation»: a metaphor for human civilization conceived as a whole, like an ocean into which different rivers flow and add depth.

Of course, that you know the true character of a person, when in crisis, is as true now as it was in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the 1954 novel in which the best of British public school boys (metaphor for the best of western civilization) descended into feral brutes, just because they were marooned in a strange environment for a few days.

The morphing of Dean for America into Obama for America was more than a metaphor for a style of politics.

The governor went into a long metaphor about how buying one of his daughters a computer for Christmas had caused tension in his household, but it didn't mean he loved any of his children more than the others.

His metaphor for biology is a child playing in a woodland stream, poking a stick into the eddies in the water.

As John Campbell, Ph.D., a professor of religious studies at University of Virginia, explains in this video, mudras are incorporated into the flowing practice not only for spiritual metaphor but also for physical assistance.

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

For example, if I can use the «Baseball Metaphor» in a different way: watching baseball is long and boring and the excitement spreads over 9 innings, but if you catch the highlights on ESPN then you get to see all the action jammed into a two - minute span.

Baseball metaphors for sex Second base — skin - to - skin touching / kissing of the breasts; dividing the topics into first base The same thing it is when you are not dating.

1st base is when you first make out with your companion or (boy / girl) it is dry lips, then grdualy put your tounge into the others mouth and play with it foer a little bit which is 2nd you feel a higher level of sexual conection and start to get into 3rd base when you start feeling on each other slowwly and intamately while stile french he is done touching and stroaking your upper parts (breasts) you start to feel more intamate and both of you work your way Among American adolescents, baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships.

Baseball metaphors for sex but the following are typical usages of the terms: First base — mouth - to dividing the topics into first base Term dates, school holidays and INSET days for First Base

This thrilling sequence is an apt metaphor for the entire film series: at first a bit clumsy in transferring Rowling's vision into movies, then gaining strength, finding its wing power and soaring in later episodes.

Movies about sports usually work to appeal to those of us — * raises hand * — who aren't into sports at all by letting the sports stuff serve as a metaphor for something larger and more inclusive.

Rushing into his first job with the crew he calls «an outdated metaphor for racism in the»60s,» Deadpool attempts to talk down an angry teenage mutant named Randall (Julian Dennison), who's making a scene hurling fireballs at the sinister authorities who run his orphanage.

It serves as a rich metaphor for the movie's recurring motif of working for feeling versus settling into it.