Sentences with phrase «metaphor for existence»

Sure, it's a beautiful metaphor for existence and it keeps players from painting themselves into a corner, but it fails to foster a sense of sorrow.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

A necessary condition for a metaphor to explain is the existence of a positive analogy between the two domains (explanans, explanandum).

We may prefer to view images of life after death as metaphors for the transcendent dimension of human existence.

Throw in the possibility there will be more Iranian rocket attacks and the week ahead is shaping up as an extreme metaphor for the good, the bad and the ugly of Israel's modern existence.

An unobserved particle is a wisp of reality, a shimmer of existence — there isn't a good metaphor for it, because it is vague both by definition and by nature.

As Popper figures out how to keep the penguins calm (they like Charlie Chaplin movies, recognizing a kindred spirit), the story becomes an extended metaphor for how a cool guy gradually learns to give up his groovy titanium solo existence and accept the uncontrollable ooze and whine of family life.

Through Wong's oeuvre, Hong Kong becomes a metaphor for the characters and their varied existence.

It's beside the point to reveal whether or not we actually see any aliens in Signs because their alleged existence stands as a metaphor for a different kind of alienation, just as the title refers to a religious manifestation rather than the crop circles.

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.

Choosing the humble button as a metaphor for mundane aspects of human existence, she creates extraordinary landscapes by hammering them into Plexiglas and wood panels in a repetitive and meditative process.

Sterling Ruby's interdisciplinary practice incorporates sculptures, collages, ceramics, paintings and videos, which act as markers and metaphors for the burdens that plague contemporary existence.

I use natural and endangered landscapes as metaphors for our fragile, yet beautiful, ever - changing existence.

Under Schendel's hand - one undoubtedly shaped by the persecution and political unrest so prevalent in the first half of the 20th Century - language is presented not just as a communicative device, but rather a wider visual metaphor for human existence.

The opening becomes a metaphor for what lies beyond our existence.

For Silverthorne the worksite and its contents, including herself, become inextricable metaphors of existence, age and decay.

As a release from Amos Eno Gallery points out: «March has been, and continues to be, interested in creating visual art that can transcend the physicality of the material surface and be a vehicle or emotional and intellectual contemplation and interpretation, as well as a metaphor for the fragility of human existence.»

Prompted by a desire to explore people and beliefs in conflict, these works form a metaphor for the fragility of human existence.

At Gambler Hirst presented what some critics consider his best work, A Thousand Years, containing a life cycle of flies within two vitrines, which can be seen as a metaphor for human existence.

Smith used the body as a metaphor for the passions and tribulations of existence, and her work reinvigorated the tradition of expressionist and emotive figural sculpture.