Sentences with phrase «obvious metaphor of»

Unfortunately, the more obvious metaphor of de-construction captivated the avant - garde power structure, especially in Germany.

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It is obvious, then, what sin is in this metaphor of the world as God's body: it is refusal to be part of the body, the special part we are as imago dei.

It is a metaphor with no obvious point of reference.

To say the obvious (but it has so often been lost during the period of modernity) metaphors can be profoundly true, even if they aren't literally or factually true.

Discovered one night by troubled little Samuel (Noah Wiseman) and read to him by his mom, long - suffering palliative - care nurse Amelia (Essie Davis — stardom awaits), the book foretells the arrival of a Jack White - looking thing (Tim Purcell) that serves as an unfortunately obvious metaphor for repressed grief.

There are some too - obvious metaphors (like Wilson struggling in the deep end of a swimming pool), but you forgive them.

There is, of course, no structural reason for the stage in terms of narrative — Melanie Oliver's editing is, after all, more responsible for the film's allegro tempo than Wright's staging — but as a metaphor for the aristocratic world wherein the majority of the film takes place, it has some appreciated if obvious bite (Wright ensures his intentions by juxtaposing natural environments when Levin returns to his home in the country).

(Ramsay, fond of obvious and familiar visual metaphors, leans hard on the image of suffocation to reflect Joe's mental affliction.)

Even if you take its unfathomable action as a metaphor for maternal anxiety — which is surely the point of the exercise — it's dismally obvious stuff.

As he edges further and further from the church he'd once cocooned himself in, Toller sees his body degrade more rapidly, an obvious but effective metaphor for the miserable state of the world.

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.

We get plenty of conversation, obvious metaphors such as mirror gazing and metamorphic amphibians, but truly salient points about identity and limitation seem just out of reach.

However, connoisseurs of graphic design and poetic metaphors may find themselves mesmerized by movie's amazing art direction and the script's obvious attempts to draw parallels between the heroine's real and imaginary worlds.

So I couldn't help but cringe with the obvious metaphor opening scene where Hugh Jackman's character (Keller Dover) experiences one of those life - bonding moments with his teenage son Ralph (played by Dylan Minnette).

For this sad but ultimately optimistic tale of estranged brothers reuniting under strained, phony circumstances, Anderson, Coppola, and Schwartzman set up a literal scenario to showcase the old metaphor that life is a journey, and while some of that theme gets blatantly obvious near the somewhat problematic end, the journey of the film itself more than compensates.

Sure, it could be that that's the point, that's the metaphor; in a time when the president is easily caricatured by a sickly orange blob and a swoop of yellow, it's obvious that the ridiculous can be very real.

The Nash equilibrium, once it is explained, sounds obvious, but by formulating the problem of economic competition in the why that he did, Nash showed that a decentralized decision making process could, in fact, be coherent — giving economics an updated, far more sophisticated version of Adam Smith's great metaphor of the Invisible Hand.

Strip out all of the obvious weaknesses of «Seize the Night» — the maddening, superfluous detail upon detail; the overworked similes and metaphors; the ridiculously impossible plot; the improbable oh - so - cool banter — and you still have a book well worth reading.

Setting aside the obvious racial metaphor, the clash of black and white offers a dialectical contrast that alludes to the many conflicted states of marginalized identity, and to conditions of visibility and invisibility.

In the visual metaphors of his videos, sculptures and drawings, Cass highlights the materiality of elements — through the intensity of colors, the texture of objects and the brutality of actions — in order to reach for a poetic, political and spiritual meaning, beyond what is obvious and visible in the work.

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