Sentences with phrase «of animal metaphors»

Why is it important to see them together in «utter mutual nakedness» at first, and often through the lens of animal metaphors?

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The Tree pf Life is a metaphor for animal life and the innocence of a sheltered early childhood, a state of living by instinct rather than moral decision making.

The balance of nature, Type II, although commonly stated in a metaphor of two terms, obviously involves many terms such as animals, waste, water, oxygen, algae, industries, governments, conservation groups, etc..

This sort of talk about immigrants has become more and more acceptable, but we would do well to remind ourselves that it is not acceptable to use animal or geographic metaphors about immigrants.

For thousands of years, ethnic groups have been diminished and dehumanised through animal metaphors.

In a skilful reading of the way the dingo has entered Aboriginal stories and mythology, Meryll Parker, whose PhD thesis was on the animal, shows how it appears in myths as a fitting metaphor for humans, capable of love, affection, good parenting, loyalty and cooperation.

In this film, the animal - human relationship becomes a metaphor for facing the daily challenges of life.

A gash of violence finally decides the lady's fate, but we're so numbed by that point by speeches that repeat the same points with different animal metaphors that the resolution carries little impact — as these two might say, like a sparrow thudding against a window.

But in terms of its bleak finality, it makes for one hell of a swan song, operating as a meticulous, concentric metaphor for the slow decay and eventual death of animals, people, families, language, countries, political systems — the whole bit.

Vivid imagery and an expert command of sound and meter distinguish this collection of poems about animals, filled with inventive metaphors that will startle readers into thinking about animals in new ways.

Simpler than any cliched Hemingway-esque metaphor between man and beast, I experienced the pure sport of fishing, and the excitement that comes with wresting a large fish from the depths of the water with only a thin pole and a bit of bait, a surprising feeling for someone that abhors the thought of hunting land animals.

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.

The deformed image, a direct product of the curvature of the animal's ocular perception system, serves as a metaphor for an altered present, a transformed environment in which these animals now live.

In his Traps series, Lockett used the predicament of ensnared animals as a metaphor for specific modern - day crises, such as segregation and environmental destruction, as well as the more general human condition of feeling isolated or trapped by the circumstances of birth.

With a knowing nod to this fascination with animals as both forces of nature and metaphors for human behavior, Stingel replaces the sublime vistas of the alpine landscape with colossal vignettes of the species that inhabit it.

Conductor John Myers — straight out of «downtown New York central casting, circa 1984,» according to one pal — summoned an at - times - unholy noise from the six hundred assembled strings, and the music's power conjured a litany of metaphors, all describing moments verging on abandon: His calisthenic conducting elicited a tidal surge of synchronized nodding heads; the performers then inspired him to feats of excitement that could compete with Christian - revival praise dancing; his attempts to rein in the players for quieter passages gave the impression of a lion tamer placating a feisty animal.

The exhibition which features of years of work which crystallizes themes Cavener has been exploring using her stoneware sculpture of ominous animals as metaphor for human behavior.

The artist relies on animal body language as a metaphor for underlying patterns of human behavior.

For Linares, the stick serves as concrete evidence of the neurological evolution of some animals and indicates their ability to create metaphor.

This series uses digital technology to create a dynamic painting depicting vivid images of animals in countless flowers that constantly bloom and wither, at once expanding the expressive forms of color and making a metaphor for the connected, cyclical nature of natural life.

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.

From Aesop's Fables and medieval bestiaries to Kafka's Metamorphosis and Joseph Beuys» dead hare, artists and writers have found powerful metaphors for the human experience in the animal kingdom, spelling out the ways of humankind in our most raw, instinctual and unselfconscious forms.

The sound works explores how we use personification and animal metaphors to define human behavior in our daily conversations, sparking dialogue about the arbitrary nature of classification in language.

But we can tell you that he offers a unique look at seven foundational business skills all AEs need, set against the backdrop of the Serengeti with its animal inhabitants as metaphors and examples of each skill: