Sentences with phrase «made use of the metaphor»

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Nope: Last week I made fun of the tendency of dealmakers to use romantic metaphors to describe M&A transactions.

When Song of Songs, for instance, uses metaphors for body parts (stone pillars, fawns, flowers) it is using analogies that make sense that the time.

To use the metaphor of the seed, each seed produces after its own kind - apple seed make apple trees, which make apples.

When Noll speaks of Equiano's «immersion» in Scripture, he is not using that metaphor casually, as an extract from the Narrative makes clear with its «fusillade of scriptural quotations and allusions.»

This is going to be a shock — the men who actually wrote all the parts in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD in Rome — were not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!!!

Many since Kant have doubted whether God, who gave us language, actually uses language to communicate with uswhether, that is, God's «speaking» to people is a cognitive event for them as my speaking to you would be, or whether this «speaking» is a metaphor for some non-cognitive way in which we are made aware of his presence.

To use a different metaphor, life for me is a two - step saraband of creating and letting be, of making and simply enjoying, of molding and then being molded, of work and play, prayer and politics, telling and listening.

These figures of speech are much more than decorative flowers that brighten the garden of language; for the use of a metaphor or image can evoke the power of the world view to make it legitimate or illegitimate.

Earlier I used, somewhat covertly, a version of Pepper's categories to distinguish the various approaches that analysts make to understand individual congregations.10 Here I return to Pepper's original intention and consider the root metaphors by which various thinkers have understood the world.

You made a profession of it for so many years, and have found a theory (Z) that allows you to stay in the fold and use Christian metaphors to relate to the world and others in very healthy ways.

Brown calls the «bestial gods of the beginning» are indeed inspected for what use we might make of them, i.e., what role they might play in our superstition, while the more conservative handle Christian «symbols» and «metaphors» and «concerns» in just the same way.

The difference is revealed in the use that is made of the metaphor and the way in which the words mind and body are understood.

Goldstein's book is at its best when the conversations veer personal, and she gets to make use of clever metaphors from ordinary modern life.

That Polkinghorne seems only to make use of his scientifc background for anecdotes and metaphors and then takes signifcant false turns in terms of Christian orthodoxy and coherent metaphysics is disappointing.

I guess that's why if a writer doesn't use plenty of imagery and visual metaphors then I can hardly make it through their work.

Acceptance of the view that metaphors are meant to be intelligible implies rejection of all views that make metaphor a wholly noncognitive, subjective, emotive, or stylistic use of language.

Well, that metaphor is only used to make you understand the kind of active and grander experience you get at Uberhorny with regards to adult 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.

The producers used to refer to the series as «a novel», and she makes the brilliant point that: «Not only does The Wire demonstrate the ingenuity of dealers and detectives as they elude each other, but surveillance itself becomes the show's metaphor for what drama does in listening in on the world.»

Lakoff and Nunez in «Where Mathematics Comes From» present the idea that numerals and numbers are essentially metaphors the mind uses to make sense of and communicate ideas related to groups of objects, size and magnitude, length, and motion along a path.

Following his morning keynote, Doctorow spoke to GoodEReader about one of the metaphors he used in his presentation, that of the dandelion, a flower that doesn't concern itself with how it reproduces other than to make sure that dandelions grow out of every sidewalk crack.

Through rich language and use of metaphor, most often that of wildflowers, their common names and lore, Inflorescence often treats its subject matter obliquely, making the personal and particular universal.

* A simile is a kind of metaphor involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

By using food metaphors to talk about finance, we bring warmth and life to the cold subject of finance, which makes the entire subject more approachable.

While describing use as many epithets, similes, metaphors, allusions, and all the other figures and tropes of speech as it is only possible in order to make the readers feel like being a part of this very picture.

It then became the code word that we used to talk to each other about it and a metaphor of our vision of the future; where we could hang out together and make cool games all day long.

In this revised version, she expands upon her thesis using the metaphor of language, pairing randomly selected writings with artworks — in process and completed — made during her graduate education and progression.

It is the metaphor of Jurassic Park: using ancient DNA to make new beings that eventually consume their makers.

Spanning sculpture, video - as - readymade, readymades - as - sculpture, photography and a site - specific sculpture / installation, the show brought together works that address collaboration by using the fertile metaphor of the garden, touching upon the urgency of creation and the making of new bonds in an arid and stilted atmosphere:

I am working on an installation and a series of works that uses paper making as a metaphor for border creation.

According to curator Lee Foley, «Cloud Cover traces the history of a common metaphor often used to make new technology enticing and easier to grasp; the screen is described as a «window onto the world.»

This series uses digital technology to create a dynamic painting depicting vivid images of animals in countless flowers that constantly bloom and wither, at once expanding the expressive forms of color and making a metaphor for the connected, cyclical nature of natural life.

Using the mechanics of collage as a deliberate metaphor for violence, Williams makes repetitive and idiosyncratic forms, fitted from content around specific incidents of sociological chaos.

The paintings shown were all made in the 1980s and 1990s and expand our understanding of the themes and metaphors which are central to Oxlade's practice along with his use of bold colour and improvised image.

It is a «debunking» of something so fundamental that it makes one's jaw drop — as I noted above, using paralysis rather than drooling as a metaphor.

Make more effective use of imagery, metaphor, and narrative.

The video, which makes clever use of the apt «elephant in the room» metaphor, is now running on Current, and will be will be showcased on MySpace's Impact Channel and featured in the Alliance for Climate Protection's national campaign.

And that makes Hearthstone an excellent subject / metaphor for using your time wisely, tackling new goals or skills or projects, and how easy it is to lose track of almost everything these days.

Her unique style of writing using stories, examples, metaphors, case studies, and Scriptures make the content easy to understand and remember.

This workshop will initially introduce metaphors, symbolism, and storytelling in play therapy and then move in to looking at the practical side of making therapeutic stories with clients using expressive play modalities.

There are many books on metaphor and psychotherapy, but this is the first book to make the connection between the science of metaphor and the detailed clinical process of using that knowledge.