Sentences with phrase «metaphor as a description»

We've always liked the meaty metaphor as a description of the mysterious behind - closed - doors production of a spending plan by the governor and state legislative leaders.

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As we begin this experiment with the model of the world as God's body, we must once again recall that a metaphor or model is not a descriptioAs we begin this experiment with the model of the world as God's body, we must once again recall that a metaphor or model is not a descriptioas God's body, we must once again recall that a metaphor or model is not a description.

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).

In fact, the description of Greek and Latin as «dead» languages was sometimes felt as more than metaphor.

Even Jessica Asato's glancing reference to producer capture is at least useful both as metaphor for New Labour's corruption of earlier party structures (see above) and as a partial description of how economic reality has altered, assisted by New Labour, over the past 12 years, though she goes on to muddle the point.

View this clip to hear Dr. Shulman's description of pastrami as a metaphor for «a well marbled life.»

Point out Tía Isa's description of her dream car («the same shiny green as the ocean that lapped under my car»), and ask students to find other similes and metaphors in the text.

Descriptive language can be characterized as structure independence, slow manner of description, unexpected deviations from the topic, association, metaphors, rhetoric devices, possible variations of word - combinations — everything confirms to the style of writing descriptive essays.

The metaphor is so dead that we hear it neither as a metaphor nor as a literal description; we translate it into an abstraction.

The commission's title, «Pylon and Pier», is extracted from the second stanza, a description of the demolition of a modernist building facing into a square read as a metaphor for systemic collapse.»