Sentences with phrase «metaphors for society»

My images are not necessarily concerned with the individuals contained within them but in treating them as metaphors for society as a whole.

If Irons» roles in Dead Ringers and M. Butterfly provide a roundabout link to Cronenberg, so does a med - school scene where the skin of a cadaver's head is peeled away in a kind of metaphor for society's thin surface.

But beyond that, it sounds like the film doesn't bring anything else potentially groundbreaking to the table, offering another metaphor for our society to deal with in relation to war with some decent performances and occasionally beautiful visuals scattered throughout.

Sporting intentionally mannered dialogue and Cronenberg's patented icy remove, «Cosmopolis» is cold to the touch, offering an apt metaphor for a society in which wealth and technology have stripped the powerful of their humanity.

Inspired by notion of the garden as a metaphor for society, Narielwalla's works in Sanctuary gather as a multi-sensory forest, a refuge from the chaos of urban life and open up a space for contemplation and reflection.

Talking about human beings, the film is at the same time a metaphor for society.

The man accepts the animal with its injury and without prejudice, and this can be seen as a metaphor for a society in which citizens long to get in touch with strangers without the fear of the unknown.

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H. Richard Niebuhr's famous metaphor for the minister as «pastoral director, «5 and more recent variations of it, 6 continue to be useful in taking account of the two elements that distinguish the ministry from other professions, namely, the sense of a personal calling to be a prophetic resource to persons and to structures in society plus accountability to an organization that the minister both leads and serves.

If an erroneous, and indeed pernicious, metaphor has dominated American jurisprudence and public discourse for years, then correcting that error would yield real - world changes in law, politics and society.

While Nigerians are still essaying to piece the bits together on how he actually graduated in B.A Geography as attested to by the Vice Chancellor of the ABU, Prof Ibrahim Garba, the theatre of the absurd to which they have been treated represents the metaphor for the lowest of the low that any public figure can get in any society where sanity still counts.

A «society» may even, though more by means of metaphor, refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example, in some formulations of artificial intelligence.

Different people use different things - my kids use IM and not email, use Myspace and YouTube, SecondLife, not web pages and download / upload -LSB-...] «Its like asking a plumber, an estate agent and a building society manager to give a metaphor for urban spaces.»

Bong (The Host, Mother) takes full advantage of the claustrophobic setting, both as a metaphor for the ills of society and as a springboard for spectacularly realized action sequences.

Laura is a metaphor for fearful Mexican society, he says, even if that passivity might sometimes alienate the audience.

But don't be mistaken — the film very much has Ford's steely and militant glamour, especially as it relates to Adams» character Susan, a gallerist and Los Angeles society type whose marriage is on the brink of collapse, and who interprets the manuscript of a violent novel by her first husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), as a metaphor for their own failed relationship.

They are the ones who don't fit in, metaphors for those marginalized by society.

The metaphor for minorities feeling trapped by a society indifferent to their concerns resonates with remarkable power.

Though at times she overreaches for an arresting metaphor, duBois does an admirable job of portraying the death rattle of Communism and the birth of a nominally democratic but persistently corrupt society.

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.

Meanwhile, the sharp contrast between the formal language of the works and their content creates a dynamic that is a perfect metaphor for the artist's quest for utopia within the spiritual ruins of contemporary consumer society.

The door can also be seen as a metaphor for barriers, confinement, and opportunities for freedom that may be experienced in various realms of modern society.

Miraculously no one was hurt, but the trauma of the incident — the explosion of violence amidst that expression of the values we hold dear as a society — emerged as a metaphor for this complex city.»

The flower arrangements become a poignant metaphor for 21st century disillusionment felt in post-independent African societies.

These complications act as metaphors for contemporary American society and life in the Internet age.

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.

If football is a metaphor for American society, then the winner is the person who pushes others out of the way and wins no matter the cost.