Sentences with phrase «of war metaphors»

BAD METAPHOR get to of all you war metaphors they are no good.

The book's tone of urgency and its copious use of war metaphors left many readers with the distinct impression that American politics was experiencing an irreversible decline.

Not exact matches

Most books on the topic of sales use game or war metaphors.

He urged business leaders to shed the old metaphors of war and Darwinism.

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurWar I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurwar), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

Talk about the metaphor of the war room.

As the martial metaphor of the warring gods suggests, Weber's was combative.

(I am rather tired of sports and war metaphors.)

A metaphor is a word or phrase used inappropriately.12 It belongs in one context but is being used in another: the arm of the chair, war as a chess game, God the father.

The two cultures, she proposes, are best understood in terms of an «ethics gap,» and here she draws upon and reinforces the important work of sociologist James Davison Hunter, whose writings have done so much to give empirical substance to the culture war metaphor.

Buchanan's 1996 campaign was no less crusade - like, and the war metaphors were even more prominent as partisans were advised to «lock and load» and «ride to the sound of the gunfire.»

If the intellectual life is like this, if struggle is its blood and bone, then one ought to expect those who think rightly about it to delight in and deploy the imagery and metaphors of battle and war to capture its flavor.

For instance, the bald and uninterpreted metaphor, «Lord of Hosts,» implicitly sanctions militarism, since the noun «hosts» is derived from a Hebrew verb that means «to make war.»

Such a shattering metaphor typifies the existentialist, expressionist mood in which the early Barth — and with him the preponderance of post-World War I theology — came to see Jesus.

The dominant metaphor Harris uses for Church is that of an army at war.

What had once been the liberal community was now split asunder; the metaphor of civil war would not be an entirely exaggerated one.

And he notes that there is a contradiction between those metaphors that speak of God's forgiveness and care for Israel and victims and those that tell of divine participation in war and punishment.

8 «The metaphor of a war of nature», Keith Ward writes, «here gives way to a different metaphor: that of a developing emergent whole, with increasingly complex and beautiful co-adaptedness among organic life - forms, and which pictures nature as expressing a continuous growth in harmonious complexity.»

Of course, the idea of a «War on Christmas» is terminally silly in a culture saturated with Christmas messaging (as I write this, the radio at the coffeeshop I'm in is tuned to a channel that'll play nothing BUT Christmas songs for the next couple of weeks), but what the heck — martial metaphors work quite well when you want to get folks fired uOf course, the idea of a «War on Christmas» is terminally silly in a culture saturated with Christmas messaging (as I write this, the radio at the coffeeshop I'm in is tuned to a channel that'll play nothing BUT Christmas songs for the next couple of weeks), but what the heck — martial metaphors work quite well when you want to get folks fired uof a «War on Christmas» is terminally silly in a culture saturated with Christmas messaging (as I write this, the radio at the coffeeshop I'm in is tuned to a channel that'll play nothing BUT Christmas songs for the next couple of weeks), but what the heck — martial metaphors work quite well when you want to get folks fired uof weeks), but what the heck — martial metaphors work quite well when you want to get folks fired up.

His apparently endless reservoir of Second World War and Rule Britannia - themed metaphors for Brexit have served to alienate both the EU he dislikes and the Commonwealth he loves.

Out of left wing, a Plaid Cymru MP says Harman was brave to say the Iraq war was a mistake, and tries to use it as a metaphor for government failure to not impose more market regulation before the current crisis hit.

Constant World War Two metaphors were used and even where they weren't, the language was so aggressive and self - interested that it hardened the backs of anyone tempted to give Britain a better deal.

The metaphors were clear and painful for Mayor Bill de Blasio's first budget war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a master of Albany's byzantine backrooms — Mr. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, had schooled the upstart Mr. de Blasio this year, securing new and unprecedented protections for charter schools, denying Mr. de Blasio a tax hike to fund his universal prekindergarten expansion and swatting away a demand for a municipal minimum wage increase barely after the words had left the mayor's mouth at his maiden State of the City address.

Replacing the «war on terror» metaphor with other ways of framing counterterrorism might help us curtail the violence more effectively

The metaphor certainly influences how we think about illness, which might mean we should dial back on the use of «medicine - as - war».

In this way, war metaphors in medicine can invite ways of thinking that may not be scientifically or socially productive.

«If applied in a careless manner, war metaphors can delude our sense of what's possible therapeutically, and give false hope to people and caregivers who are suffering,» George said.

So often we see metaphors of war used to explain strength.

In the metaphor, first prevalent in the aftermath of World War II, sexual activities are described as if they are actions in a game of baseball.

The metaphor for terrorist attack is so front and center it hardly bears mentioning; War of the Worlds is pure popcorn escapism of the highest order if you want it to be, or more, but it's never less than thrilling, thanks in enormous part to the film's magnificent, sternum - rattling sound design, surely another of the film's Oscar - calibrated achievements.

The commentary on war and metaphors of camouflage and «enemies on the other side of a wall» set it apart from dumb - down war pics.

Killmonger desires not only to turn the Kingdom into a metaphor for American military invasion through the export of war, but to do so via explicitly American-esque military and governmental methods: destabilizing a vulnerable state during a handover of power, employing foreign sleeper agents to enact political will.

Jolie for her part uses silence as a kind of metaphor for our collective speechlessness in the face of war's horrors.

Just a few days prior the so - called «doomsday clock,» a visual metaphor that symbolizes the real - world risk of nuclear war, was moved up 30 seconds.

War for the Planet of the Apes is a bludgeoning film of empty and meaningless metaphors wrapped up in the clothing of presumed depth.

Threat of nuclear war is not as prevalent today as the 1950s, thereby making Edwards» Godzilla a more diversionary spectacle rather than a contemporary social metaphor.

But they also serve as metaphor: Naranjo uses his heroine as a symbolic stand - in for Mexico's citizens, blameless bystanders caught in the cross fire of a billion - dollar range war.

The film's nihilism serves as a metaphor for the merciless death pit of Mexico's drug war, but not much else.

You'll pardon the embroidery metaphor, which comes straight from the movie itself, a darkly absorbing Southern gothic tale set in 1864, during the fraught final days of the Civil War.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is about to land in theaters after a highly - publicized and turbulent flight, and if you'll allow me to belabor the metaphor, it sounds as if director Ron Howard managed to pull this particular spaceship out of a potentially disastrous nosedive and smooth things out in a satisfying way.

The problem with the war metaphors (or war - movie metaphors) intrinsic to the film's sequences of competition is that they fail to illuminate the remainder of Drumline.

In addition to all the fall movies rich in metaphors for Trump, the multiplex is also offering numerous escapes, from the coming - of - age period piece Lady Bird to a new Star Wars to another movie about proud moments in British history, The Darkest Hour (if Dunkirk wasn't enough stiff upper lip for you).

It has a powerful resonance as a metaphor for wars of cultural animosity, hatred and mistrust, with human and ape both equating the worst actions of the other with the entire species.

While a number of approaches are available, they are typically described in contentious terms, with war metaphors pitting the whole language camp against the phonics supporters.

To extend the metaphor, they really only care about the survivors in a war of attrition.

Similarly to Pat Barker in her World War I novels, Magee's descriptions are stripped of metaphor and simile and her dialogue is crisp and vivid whether she is writing an argument between Katherina and her deluded parents or between Peter and his fellow soldiers freezing in the Russian snow.

But the haunting metaphors are never forced, and the intensity of the simple words, on the baseball field and in the war zone, will make readers want to rush to the end and then return to the beginning again to make connections between past and present, friends and enemies.

In which Riddles perfects the self - deprecating metaphor - From «Oh, Well... This is Embarrassing...» during God of War III Week

Juxtaposing images of the First World War memorial in the churchyard with the cranes and girders of contemporary urban development, Emin's personal heartache now becomes a metaphor for the lives fractured by the conflict, the passage of time and for the loss and eradication — as well as survival and perpetuation — of history and memory within the built environment.

From the Ashes: Rebirth of the Human Spirit, Group Exhibition 2014 Gallery for Good, The Community Foundation, Washington, DC Group Exhibition 2014 Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Delaware, Picture Landscape, Group Exhibition 2014 Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD, Invitation to a Metaphor, Solo Exhibition 2014 Thelma Harris Gallery, Oakland, California, Group Exhibition 2014 Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon, The Subject of War, Group Exhibition 2014 Charles Krouse Reporting Fine Art, Washington, DC, Beyond Red and Blue, Group Exhibition 2014 WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound, Group Exhibition 2014 Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburg, PA..