Sentences with phrase «metaphors for what»

By projecting their light into the exhibition space, and because they are joined by precisely arranged cords to power sources (which are in turn connected to the wall), the tubes offer a host of metaphors for what it means to exist in physical space as a participating entity and not merely an observer.

He explains: «I work with glass that has transparency and translucency, two qualities that serve as perfect metaphors for what is known and unknown about life science.

They find real life metaphors for what they really are.

Metaphors for what, though?

Health is surely one of the Bible's most pervasive metaphors for what is spiritually normative, precisely because we naturally think of health as normative for the body.

It's a metaphor for what Kia, a company associated with affordability, is trying to do to consumers» perception of the brand as it expands into the luxury market.

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.

Some view the novel as an extended metaphor for what is now recognized as post-traumatic stress disorder.

Some view the novel as an extended metaphor for what is now recognized as post-traumatic-stress disorder.

That's the premise of the Jurassic Park movies, of course, but it's also a metaphor for what Comcast - owned (CMCSA) Universal Pictures just did with its dino - franchise.

A beautiful metaphor for what some of us like to think of as the Beautiful Apocalypse.

The image of a blossoming pear tree, buzzing with bees and dusting the world with pollen, becomes her image of community and her metaphor for what marriage should be.

A bike crash as a black swan is, in fact, an apt metaphor for what the investigative journalist and natural - born skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich believes happened to America as a result of the positive - thinking movement.

But at this point I think it's much easier to make [the] case that durability needs to be our mantra or, you know, [that] instead of expansion that hunkering down is the metaphor for what we need to be doing now.

It's pretty much the perfect metaphor for what our detoxification systems face these days.

What happened to him and his dad is, in fact, a perfect metaphor for what his dad opposed: Wakanda shutting out the world and leaving its suffering peoples to deal with their own problems.

It turns out that having your teeth pulled is a better metaphor for what it's like to watch Feed the Beast than anything to do with fine food.

Trying to recapture the good old days, a group of friends (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman) reunite for a night of drinking only to find the name of the pub (World's End) may be a metaphor for what is happening in their lives.

The producers used to refer to the series as «a novel», and she makes the brilliant point that: «Not only does The Wire demonstrate the ingenuity of dealers and detectives as they elude each other, but surveillance itself becomes the show's metaphor for what drama does in listening in on the world.»

In a very obvious way, Raw is a metaphor for what can and often does happen to a sheltered girl when she leaves home for college.

Precognition seems like an apt metaphor for what science fiction can be to the culture.

Choose your own metaphor for what the cured represent but in this post-Brexit times the analogy feels particularly pertinent.

The scene essentially serves as a visual metaphor for what the rest of the film will be: one long, overly enthusiastic standing ovation.

Jiro has literal nearsightedness that also serves as a metaphor for what enables him to block out doubt and achieve success while willfully ignoring moral questions.

Is New Orleans a metaphor for what could happen to the American public - school system nationally?

«It is a city with a tremendous amount of troubles and struggles, but it is such a metaphor for what has happened to urban America and why,» says Russakoff, who tells the story of Newark school reform in her new book, The Prize.

This is bestselling author and journalist David Grann's fitting metaphor for what befell the Osages in Oklahoma, beginning in May 1921.

Or is it a metaphor for what an immigrant has to leave behind?The title worked in a few different ways that I liked...

At 15, there was no greater metaphor for what I was feeling than a slow, terrifying journey across the ocean.

I definitely think of gameplay as somehow a metaphor for what's «really» happening in the cutscenes.

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

Bottrop employs charcoal — a metaphor for what once powered the world, and a nod to the now - defunct mechanical industry — in an expansive wall - drawing engraved into slabs of Fermacell, a material now replacing sheetrock or gypsum used in the construction of institutional architecture.

This aesthetic also becomes a visual metaphor for what the East End represented to these artists.

«I think contagious is a really good metaphor for what we're trying to do here at the Contemporary Arts Center; inspiring people through contemporary art,» Platow says.

In his debut with Shainman, Enrique Martínez Celaya opts for two distinct but related shows: one exploring land as a metaphor for what is knowable or imaginable, the other in which the sea represents ungraspable mysteries.

But in a sense, bringing to light the Invisible can be thought of as a metaphor for what all art (not to mention religion and philosophy) attempts to do.

They are a beautiful metaphor for what will be born and what we do not yet know.

«I quite like this photographer (bottom right)... I've done some paintings where he's in the corner, because it's a nice metaphor for what the artist is doing»

That's a very good metaphor for what life is.»

Evoking the idea of a home and its history in the gallery space, Somewhere, Nowhere uses the house as a metaphor for what it is to be human.

If abstract painting, to quote Matthew Collings on Mali Morris, is about «constantly coming up with visual metaphors for experience», and the artist's job is to produce this metaphor - world «in the form of visual pleasure, or beauty», that's a great metaphor for what Mali Morris does.

Some incorporate x-rays, an apt metaphor for what these newly discovered works offer us: a look into the inner mechanics of Hendricks's mind and process — insight into his tendencies, his unique concerns.

Take a moment to consider the recent Valentine's Day holiday; it gives us a perfect metaphor for what initiates, and perpetuates, a cycle of loving movement with a partner.

It's also a metaphor for what she says she intends to do as a public servant.

Not exact matches

Since my keynote program had been about creating a Menu for Your Life, with many metaphors around cooking, I started thinking about what her sales management recipe should be.

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making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us togetWhat people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us togetwhat to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us togetWhat the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - 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«Family,» the metaphor and symbol of dependent origination, defines the nexus of meaningful relationships — although, they can not be reduced to what «family» stands for, it tends to be perceived, as such, nonetheless.

(I apologize to those that dislike metaphors, but I almost can't communicate if I don't get to use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the language of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).

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.

In her pioneering study of cosmologies of different peoples, she shows that the human body is our most accessible metaphor for figuring what we really suspect about our group's and the world's makeup.