Sentences with phrase «old metaphor»

I hoped I wasn't a big old metaphor for putting ministry first, but I was comforted by the knowledge that Joe would eat his body weight in sausage if I let him, and really, it's just what they like, and honestly, who cares?

Is David Gelernter right when he challenges us (in his manifesto) to stop using old metaphors such as the «filing cabinet» in the new computer medium (after all these new systems have affordances not possessed by those we are replacing)?

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

«With Quip we've sort of thrown out all the old metaphors,» he says.

You just need to educate yourself... It's like the old metaphor: You're walking late at night and you see a snake so you walk the other way.

It's the old metaphor isn't it — you can lead the horse to water but you can't make it drink,» Allardyce said.

I'm with the sniggerers on this one - your way seems to run on the presumption that, to recycle an old metaphor, lunatics should have the right to run the asylum - or at least sit on its board of governors.

It's online, and the whole phenomenon of online technology has shifted so much of what we (journalists) do and how we do it — manage information — that the old metaphors might not fit.

«The older metaphor clearly belongs to what is still the reigning paradigm, a mechanical, deterministic view based on Newtonian physics.

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.

Like the old metaphor regarding the many ripples the toss of a stone can generate, we too can impact many students in the future when we jump into the water with new teachers and help them learn how to navigate their own educational path.

The old metaphor of abstract art as jazz would only begin to describe Jessie T. Pettway's «Bars and String - Pieced Columns,» created in the 1950s.

The real problem was that LG, in the past three years, seemingly hadn't progressed much further than the old metaphor of throwing shit at a wall.