Sentences with phrase «metaphor for today»

If we are using the evolution vs. creation metaphor for today's digital transformation, let's take it all the way.

Specifically with the paintings in this exhibition, there is a dialogue about going back to certain basic ways of survival, as expressed in the imagery of hunting, a possible metaphor for today's world.

Not exact matches

It's just that the strange experience of being surrounded by a virtual landscape in which only one thing is happening suddenly felt like a metaphor for where marketing technology finds itself today.

But burning the boats may be a particularly apt metaphor for what companies must do to stay afloat in today's economy, in which «disruption» is the new normal and «pivots» have taken the place of business plans.

Just as the Jews in Biblical times achieved their dream of freedom and self - determination, many of the elements of the Exodus story serve as metaphors for how we can achieve our own dreams today.

The Turk is a convenient metaphor for the worker in today's disrupted economy: Finding himself in the most opulent of settings, a person is confined to a tiny box, performing menial tasks for the benefit of the ruling class.

Thus, although some of these old soteriological symbols can seem confusing, it can be helpful to look at them once more with an eye to finding more relevant metaphors for ourselves and for communicating the Good News to others today.

I like the metaphor of «fermentation» for the situation of the ministry today.

To clarify, Buck used the metaphor of a speeding ticket, noting that a person can not be punished for speeding yesterday if a traffic sign was only placed on the street today.

Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot (sorry for all the feet metaphors today).

Annihilation tips its hat to the fact that audiences today are less inclined to have patience for brain - melting metaphors and psychedelia, but it doesn't cater to those more literal tendencies.

Michael Douglas presented The Social Network with the Golden Globe for Best Picture of the Year - Drama and producer Scott Rudin accepted the award, saying: «Thanks (to) everybody at Facebook, especially to Mark Zuckerberg for providing us a great metaphor about how we relate to each other, today, in our lives.»

By the time the news, first reported by PaidContent.org, makes it into the general media, the reporter will be trying — and failing — to give you a metaphor that allows you to understand the meaning of a joint announcement today by News Corp, Time Warner Inc., Conde Nast and Hearst Corp that they are readying their print titles with agreed standards for a range of devices from ebooks to tablets.

Where we once might have read that vampiric corporatism as a metaphor for natural resources like oil, it's hard today to see it as anything other than the radical changes that we are seeing in the global climate.

It stands for a lost homeland reclaimed, and another homeland lost — and as a metaphor for many of today's complex international relationships.

Landscape was a natural metaphor, and so it is still for me today, in my three - dimensional double canvases».

Along with Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not A Metaphor, her exhibitions at MoMA include Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New (2013); Abstract Expressionist New York (2010); Gabriel Orozco (2009); and Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today (2008).

«This painting is a metaphor for the power of figurative painting, which, even today, after a couple of centuries of photography, TV and video games, is still able to bewitch the mind of modern viewers,» Verlato explains.

Minneapolis, MN Anomaly, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft. Collins, CO Flora and Fauna: Myth and Metaphor, Bloomington Art Center, Bloomington, MN Art of Recovery, MN State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN New paintings by Margo Selski, Art Resource Gallery, St. Paul MN 2004 Ex Nihilo Gallery / City Pages Wine Tasting, I.M.S. Bldg., Minneapolis, MN Saint Paul Art Crawl, Tilsner Cooperative Gallery, St. Paul, MN 2003 Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis, MN Children of Eden, St. Cloud Civic Theater, St. Cloud, MN Art Resources Gallery, St. Paul, MN Sold on Art, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN Art of Today: Artists from Minnesota and North Dakota Exhibition, Plains Art Museum Rolling Plains Art Gallery, Fargo, ND 2002 Bloomington Art Center Show, Bloomington, MN mnartists.org Launch Celebration, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN Another Twist, Winona State University, Winona, MN Sold on Art, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN Art of Today, Artists from Minnesota and North Dakota 2002 - 2004 Exhibition, Plains Art Museum Rolling Plains Art Gallery, Fargo, ND Visible Fringe Art Festival, Visible Fringe Gallery, Minneapolis, MN River Gallery, St. Paul, MN Rogue Buddah Gallery, Minneapolis, MN Group Exhibition, Loring Park Playhouse, Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Foundation for the Arts, (Group Exhibition) Minneapolis, MN Fandango, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN 2001 Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibition, Minneapolis., MN (Merit Award in Oil Ptg.)

Indian artist Girjesh Kumar Singh's Laaga Chunari mein daag (Look at you) assembles a compendium of human faces sculpted out of broken bricks from destroyed buildings, incorporating an elegy to the impermanence of the idea of home and an inevitable metaphor for the tragedy of today's mass migration.

The symbolism of metamorphosis that is associated with Lepidoptera, together with their vulnerability, are also, in his language, the Other, the refugee, the homosexual, or a metaphor for the resurrection of the Kosovar people today.

«It's a metaphor for women in power, today's ever - changing gender roles, and the related complexities.

Just as Albers's «Manhattan» expressed the 1960's dream of a vibrant but rational society, Mr. Stella's increasingly frenzied geometries provide an appropriate metaphor for the permanent revolution of today's global economy.

Each Kandor is a metaphor for our own lives and world (s) today.

What does this revision of an already hackneyed metaphor stand for in today's world, then?

Today, the phrase «David and Goliath» represents a more secular meaning as a metaphor for improbable victories by a weaker party, better known as the «underdog».