Sentences with phrase «metaphor for describing»

For both Lauren Clay and Inna Babaeva, a palimpsest becomes an appropriate metaphor for describing the process by which their artworks accumulate additional meanings by a semi-erasure of seemingly finite parameters; for Clay, art history becomes a subject, playfully personified, from which a new - and arguably more vibrant - character emerges to self consciously eradicate its predecessor.

A good metaphor for describing this step would be to imagine the way that an exceptional investor might evaluate a potential opportunity.

Ms. Malliotakis, for her part, has endorsed a bread - based metaphor for describing Mr. Massey that was first used by another mayoral candidate, Bo Dietl, while adding her own personal flavor.

These metaphors for describing sports, criticized in a post-Sept.

For many years, one of the most popular metaphors for describing how global warming will influence patterns of extreme weather events has been a progressive loading of dice.

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Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

The Psalter gave him a language for despair, metaphors to describe what it meant to feel poured out on the ground, melted down like a blob of wax, dried up like a broken clay fragment.

Hopewell describes a failed course of study at his church — Trinity: «Thus in characterizing Trinity, the absentees recounted its story as its history, the rest of us accounted for its story as its metaphor, and both we and they witnessed the story transformed as gospel.»

What I do get it the beauty of the vision you have had as you describe here and in your video of the waterfall with the metaphors of the river water fall and lake for Father Son and Spirit and the peace that has accompanied that surpassing understanding.

The departure metaphor also is used to describe our individual transience we are «a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.»

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

Here the metaphor of «salvation» describes that end for which «eternal life» was used in the previous verse.

As a concluding summary, we can say that Hartshorne shares Spinoza's predilection for the mind - body metaphor, and, moreover, his fundamental rationalism: the belief, that is, that it is possible to describe the universe as a whole by means of philosophical concepts.

Here we see why an ontology based on the metaphor of habit rather than law or mechanical action and reaction is superior for describing the order in nature.

It's a disparaging metaphor, a derogatory term popular at the time for describing all gentiles.

There is an abstract nature to the language used about logical inferences concerning a necessary being, but the concrete actuality, described in terms of analogy and metaphor, is something each man finally intuits for himself.

Coffee percolation is a familiar metaphor for physicists, one that is used to describe how physical turbulence behaves as it spreads.

And although we use these metaphors of concrete things to stand for abstract concepts, that doesn't keep us from putting a different twist on those same metaphors of the concrete and using them to describe other and quite different abstract concepts.

When you have studied HIV's structure as long as Dennis Burton has, the search for metaphors to describe its unusual architecture becomes irresistible.

The slow, looping circles the boat «Point of View» describes at the end of the picture constitute perhaps the most trenchant metaphor for all of the New American Cinema.

When Moonee introduces a new friend to her secret hideaway - an uprooted, yet still living, tree - Moonee describes it in a way that offers a metaphor for her own survival instincts:

I recently heard this playful metaphor of a puppy getting loose for the first time to describe how people should use social media.

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MIRABEL, QC — In this car - writing business, «deep dive» is a metaphor sometimes used to describe the seminars that automakers stage for the purpose of educating auto writers about new products or technologies.

The term «The Law of the Jungle» is also used in a similar context, drawn from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894)-- though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos.

Grainy Super 8 footage of her seaside hometown rolls as Emin narrates this important work, which she describes as «a metaphor for why didn't I do everything I ever wanted to do in my life».

Throughout his career, Morris Graves has used the images of nature as visual metaphors for the mysteries of life, or as he describes, «the inner eye».

Conductor John Myers — straight out of «downtown New York central casting, circa 1984,» according to one pal — summoned an at - times - unholy noise from the six hundred assembled strings, and the music's power conjured a litany of metaphors, all describing moments verging on abandon: His calisthenic conducting elicited a tidal surge of synchronized nodding heads; the performers then inspired him to feats of excitement that could compete with Christian - revival praise dancing; his attempts to rein in the players for quieter passages gave the impression of a lion tamer placating a feisty animal.

Like the press release of Schmoetzer's recent solo show, A rare bird in Estonia at Kunstihoone in Tallinn, the accompanying text for Bird of the Year 2022 points to his use of narrative and metaphor to weave together and describe small and ungraspable moments.

Anthropologist Claude Levi - Strauss» metaphor of the «raw and the cooked» comes to mind, as it is used to describe binaries found in all cultures; for example, the fresh and the rotten, or the moist and the dry.

American born artist Susan Hiller describes her photographs of people surrounded by hazy auras as «metaphors for ourselves in the digital age».

Pard Morrison, who says that the fusion of surface and medium in his paintings is a metaphor for the human condition, describes his work as a hypothetical conversation between Donald Judd and Agnes Martin.

I think the metaphor of a junkie running through a heroin stash describes the petroleum blowout more accurately than the teenager with the credit card who creates a problem for his parents.

The so called movement away from symphonies following the same sheet of music describing large bureaucratic military organizations may be replaced by the metaphor of improvisational jazz, but the players will need to work together and practice for long periods in order to understand and follow one another's cues, and replacing parts will be more difficult if there is no script to follow.

Retail e-commerce companies have for years studied the «abandoned shopping cart,» that metaphor describing customers who select merchandise but never complete their purchases.

Additionally, he will explain methods for effectively discussing trauma with people in therapy, using simple language and metaphors, and he will describe the essential elements of trauma - informed care grounded in relationship, regulation, and reflective functioning.