Sentences with phrase «metaphor for understanding»

It is our failing novelist, though, who gives us the perfect metaphor for understanding the thematic reach of Mitchell's masterpiece.

A good metaphor for understanding how fascia plays a role in relaxation is to think of a knitted sweater: if you pull on one string of yarn the entire sweater can unravel.

The game of chess is another useful metaphor for understanding how physical laws might have changed.

The cherry tree is a popular metaphor for understanding sustainability as modeled after the regenerative framework of nature.

The mammalian brain's predisposition to and need for nurture can serve as a metaphor for understanding a nurturing God.

Believe it or not, competitive pursuit after a Thanksgiving turkey's wishbone is a perfect metaphor for understanding better customer centric content marketing.

Manglano - Ovalle's technologically sophisticated sculptures and video installations use natural forms such as clouds, icebergs, and DNA as metaphors for understanding social issues such as immigration, gun violence, and human cloning.

Not exact matches

The headline is misleading and throws fuel on the fire for conspiracy theorists who won't notice or understand that it's a metaphor.

This is a markedly different basic understanding of the God - world relationship than in the monarch - realm metaphor, for it emphasizes God's willingness to suffer for and with the world, even to the point of personal risk.

You do understand that this verse is a metaphor for turning one's back on God.

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.

Even though the Bible does not call itself the Word of God, it is a legitimate metaphor for us to use, provided it is rightly understood.

Exhortation typically calls for a change of behavior without offering the congregation a new metaphor by which to understand the world.

We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»

Granted, most men might grasp a sports or business metaphor before anything else, but we're also capable of greater emotional understanding than many pastors give us credit for.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

For example, it was understood long before Jesus that the story of Job was a parable and, consequently, it was to be studied as metaphor.

I understand the story as a powerful metaphor for... the tenuous...

I don't think it's fair to pick on the christians for it, and at base language and understanding work on the very principles of metaphor at a neurological level, so it's something we don't want to argue to abandon.

The results obtained in the joint project have added to our understanding of the effect, so that even when it comes to short light pulses — and to stay with the metaphor for the moment — no captain will be taken by surprise by unexpected waves in future.

In the 1978 follow - up album to «Born to Run,» Bruce Springsteen uses darkness on the edge of town as a metaphor for the desolate unknown we all face as we grow up and try to understand the world.

I don't really understand the metaphor anyway, although it makes for a stunning visual climax when the boy, exhausted from all the psychodrama, trudges into New York's Museum of Natural History and contemplates the ancient origins of life.

We trade aeroplane metaphors for a while (he dislikes flying in them, as he doesn't understand the engineering).

In a sense, the fragile structure of the title acts as a double metaphor: for a barrier between enemies that keeps them from killing each other, as well as one that must come down if true understanding is ever to occur.

He understands, too, his place in the nostalgia industrial complex; just as his Jurassic Park doubled as a metaphor for the whole movie industry, The Oasis refracts the underlying anxiety of throwback culture.

Students should understand how to use their bodies as metaphors, how to project emotion with their voices and, for the history aspect of the curriculum, to think about Euripides» own context and then apply his ideas to the present.

In the last century, it has been grossly criticized for political, sectarian and divisive reasons by people who don't understand sanskrit, metaphors and have no compassion.

We were told that we could raise student achievement if we just understood what was «absolutely essential for all students to know and be able to do» and never strayed from the «drive - train sequence» (a metaphor taken from the way power is transmitted in motors) of the SBE classroom, which, we were informed, was different from the traditional classroom.

Although the authors found that the effects of using this metaphor were disappointingly variable, they indicated that there was potential for using metaphor to increase student understanding about constructivism.

For example, students can create a graphic organizer, such as a Venn Diagram, that shows the similarities and differences of similes and metaphors to deepen their understanding of the definition of these two terms.

For example similes, metaphors, personification, amongst others, with each giving an example to help with understanding

The dispassionate, distant, objective scientist metaphor for studying teaching and teacher education has taken us about as far as it can in understanding the complexities of teaching and learning to teach.

It can also be understood as a metaphor for how standards - based reform has often played out in the U.S. context.

Many strategies for teaching self - regulated behaviors relate specifically to Shulman's notion of PCK, in that they involve the use of cognitive strategies such as modeling, analogies, and metaphors to aid in understanding the content - related material.

Presented in simple metaphor and language, for the first time, anyone can understand and utilize the doorways hidden within the forbidden knowledge of The Light Congress.

In a 2011 article published in The Chronicle for Higher Education, we learn that in the late 20th century, the study of metaphor became increasingly popular with «philosophers, linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and others...» Some believe that metaphor is «the concept at the crux of all thought, and maybe all human understanding.»

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.

«For the first time I understood the power of language to reach beyond the real and into the metaphysical and metaphor... It was a step beyond the limitations of the physical world and into a realm where a thing and its opposite could meet and magically become something else.»

That would be very smooth and rather sexy for those who don't understand my creepy metaphors.

The work is a reference to early anthropological ideas about otherness and the way the «savage» mind understands words and graphic representations, as well as a metaphor for France's interest in the «other» during the colonial era.

For Cinto, these dualities are a metaphor for embracing the instabilities in life and can also be understood as complimentary necessities, wherein one element can not exist or be understood without the othFor Cinto, these dualities are a metaphor for embracing the instabilities in life and can also be understood as complimentary necessities, wherein one element can not exist or be understood without the othfor embracing the instabilities in life and can also be understood as complimentary necessities, wherein one element can not exist or be understood without the other.

«One of the experiences that I had when I was doing this, the first iteration of the project, was that people were realizing that they didn't even understand much about woven cloth and that becomes this interesting metaphor for how much we understand about racial dynamics in this nation,» Clark says in a Nasher Museum podcast.

«Kang's work both complicates how we understand the experience of painting and acts as a metaphor for how individuals have agency within the political sphere.

Additionally, painting space is understood as metaphor for the various physical, social, political, cultural spaces we inhabit and negotiate.

From a search for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's hidden treasure and a speakeasy bar in Berlin to a vision quest into the Sonora desert and a trip to the Mayan homelands in Southern Mexico to experience the end of the world, Sarabia's new video / film installation will not only revisit the artist's complex oeuvre but depict how popular culture, personal histories, and ordinary events can be potent metaphors to understand the complexities of moments of cultural contact and exchange.

For the artist, this form is the ideal metaphor for perception and self - understanding: inside and outside are equivalent, existing in continual dialogFor the artist, this form is the ideal metaphor for perception and self - understanding: inside and outside are equivalent, existing in continual dialogfor perception and self - understanding: inside and outside are equivalent, existing in continual dialogue.

These works are metaphors for both alienated, isolated modern individuals in a technology - driven culture and real encounters intended to trigger feelings of empathy and understanding in viewers.

What's in it for ABC is that instead of trying to evoke steroid responses, they would learn something better: for instance: the use of steroid metabolism as a key metaphor to understand attribution and probabalistic outcomes in climate science.

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.

For people who've been having trouble understanding the radiation crisis in Japan, maybe an animated video that uses poop as a metaphor for radiation will help clear things For people who've been having trouble understanding the radiation crisis in Japan, maybe an animated video that uses poop as a metaphor for radiation will help clear things for radiation will help clear things up.