Sentences with phrase «many obvious metaphors»

There's an obvious metaphor in that.

Discovered one night by troubled little Samuel (Noah Wiseman) and read to him by his mom, long - suffering palliative - care nurse Amelia (Essie Davis — stardom awaits), the book foretells the arrival of a Jack White - looking thing (Tim Purcell) that serves as an unfortunately obvious metaphor for repressed grief.

But for all that Braff loves an obvious metaphor, he doesn't seem to know quite how to fit this one in.

There are some too - obvious metaphors (like Wilson struggling in the deep end of a swimming pool), but you forgive them.

He infuses many obvious metaphors into the mix, most notably in the opening scene which reveals the match between the father and mother while the boys take up their sides.

Lucky has the same affection pouring out of it, which makes it easy to forgive its clumsier attempts at symbolism (there's a much - discussed lost tortoise that serves as a cheerfully obvious metaphor for Lucky's own hard - shelled existence) and its mostly caricatured picture of community.

We get plenty of conversation, obvious metaphors such as mirror gazing and metamorphic amphibians, but truly salient points about identity and limitation seem just out of reach.

So I couldn't help but cringe with the obvious metaphor opening scene where Hugh Jackman's character (Keller Dover) experiences one of those life - bonding moments with his teenage son Ralph (played by Dylan Minnette).

Unfortunately, the more obvious metaphor of de-construction captivated the avant - garde power structure, especially in Germany.

Of all the obvious metaphors in the Harry Potter series, Mad Eye's crazy eyeball replacement is one of the clearest.

Not exact matches

It is obvious, then, what sin is in this metaphor of the world as God's body: it is refusal to be part of the body, the special part we are as imago dei.

It is a metaphor with no obvious point of reference.

To say the obvious (but it has so often been lost during the period of modernity) metaphors can be profoundly true, even if they aren't literally or factually true.

The house - keeping metaphors continue to be almost too obvious to make.

There is no obvious bouba / kiki - like dynamic that would link a young, female, doomed romantic lead with a bright orb in the sky, yet the metaphor is immediately sensible to anyone who hears it.

There's an obvious carnality metaphor here (college is a time for experimentation) and there's a clear entertainment factor in watching a meek character assert herself.

And some surreal filmmaking touches add an inner life to the character, even if the final visual metaphor is a bit obvious.

In a very obvious way, Raw is a metaphor for what can and often does happen to a sheltered girl when she leaves home for college.

There is, of course, no structural reason for the stage in terms of narrative — Melanie Oliver's editing is, after all, more responsible for the film's allegro tempo than Wright's staging — but as a metaphor for the aristocratic world wherein the majority of the film takes place, it has some appreciated if obvious bite (Wright ensures his intentions by juxtaposing natural environments when Levin returns to his home in the country).

(Ramsay, fond of obvious and familiar visual metaphors, leans hard on the image of suffocation to reflect Joe's mental affliction.)

Many argue for the more obvious theory that the creature is a metaphor for sexually transmitted diseases, given that the curse that attracts it to victims is passed on via sex.

Even if you take its unfathomable action as a metaphor for maternal anxiety — which is surely the point of the exercise — it's dismally obvious stuff.

As he edges further and further from the church he'd once cocooned himself in, Toller sees his body degrade more rapidly, an obvious but effective metaphor for the miserable state of the world.

It's tennis - playing - style as (obvious) metaphor for human relationships.

There's also an unfortunate moment in which an obvious horse metaphor is explained to us.

As for the movie's heart, the most effective speech is probably when Jason Segel muses on the stale donuts, even though Mindy Kaling nearly ruins it by making the metaphor obvious later in the movie.

However, connoisseurs of graphic design and poetic metaphors may find themselves mesmerized by movie's amazing art direction and the script's obvious attempts to draw parallels between the heroine's real and imaginary worlds.

For this sad but ultimately optimistic tale of estranged brothers reuniting under strained, phony circumstances, Anderson, Coppola, and Schwartzman set up a literal scenario to showcase the old metaphor that life is a journey, and while some of that theme gets blatantly obvious near the somewhat problematic end, the journey of the film itself more than compensates.

Sure, it could be that that's the point, that's the metaphor; in a time when the president is easily caricatured by a sickly orange blob and a swoop of yellow, it's obvious that the ridiculous can be very real.

Though initially obvious, this metaphor has a few unintended effects.

Metaphors may not be as obvious as similes, but they are commonly used in both written and spoken English.

The Nash equilibrium, once it is explained, sounds obvious, but by formulating the problem of economic competition in the why that he did, Nash showed that a decentralized decision making process could, in fact, be coherent — giving economics an updated, far more sophisticated version of Adam Smith's great metaphor of the Invisible Hand.

Strip out all of the obvious weaknesses of «Seize the Night» — the maddening, superfluous detail upon detail; the overworked similes and metaphors; the ridiculously impossible plot; the improbable oh - so - cool banter — and you still have a book well worth reading.

Has he run into an obvious contradiction, in using color as a metaphor and in breaching the senses while declaring it irreducible?

Setting aside the obvious racial metaphor, the clash of black and white offers a dialectical contrast that alludes to the many conflicted states of marginalized identity, and to conditions of visibility and invisibility.

If the metaphors seem obvious, Cotton is enjoying it all as much as the next guy — or, more likely, a good deal more.

In the visual metaphors of his videos, sculptures and drawings, Cass highlights the materiality of elements — through the intensity of colors, the texture of objects and the brutality of actions — in order to reach for a poetic, political and spiritual meaning, beyond what is obvious and visible in the work.