Sentences with phrase «powerful metaphor for»

In this light, the puzzling view of filing cabinets seemingly forcing themselves into various incubators offers a powerful metaphor for how building identity through numerous dislocations may be experienced.

Intensely personal, yet elaborating universal themes, this work is a powerful metaphor for Bourgeois» life: a duplicitous father, a protective mother, and the artist, who variously reenacted her psychic torment in material form.

As the chemicals oxidize, the fabric combusts and forms a target pattern, a powerful metaphor for the volatile times in America's history.

The influence of a widening pond on the growth of its koi is a powerful metaphor for the positive impact of d.tech's annual fund on the development of our students.

Cobble's Knot is a powerful metaphor for the social problems that plague the fictional town of Two Mills.

So - called «destruction porn» is all about carnage on a grand scale, but Doctor Strange hinged on a scene in which Strange used the aforementioned Time Stone to literally rewind the scene unfolding before him and fight Kaecilius and Dormammu as the city of Hong Kong was rebuilt around him - a powerful metaphor for a character who is a brilliant surgeon.

Sure, it's about a guy who swaps a little DNA with a housefly and finds himself transforming into an inhuman monster — but it's also a powerful metaphor for humanity's fear of disease and a tragic love story at the same time.

It's a bold image and powerful metaphor for the blood on which this country is built on.

Understandably, this event has become a psychologically powerful metaphor for the frightening vision of a warmer future and our immediate need to prevent it.

«That's a very powerful metaphor for human interaction.»

I understand the story as a powerful metaphor for... the tenuous...

Anton Boisen's powerful metaphor for the existential subject of pastoral theology was the «living human document.»

This is a powerful metaphor for holding steady amid rising resistance.

If the cinema of the 1950s and 60s sublimated the fear of atomic catastrophe or communist attack into interplanetary drama, the more recent work collected here uses elements of that retro sci - fi world as powerful metaphors for our deep - seated fears of the Other, the foreigner — the increasingly frequently decried «invasion» of immigrants, or just the presence of people of different skin colors and beliefs.

Mike and Doug know there is no true structure to point to, but they have found their own powerful metaphors for the shape of thought in the light of the sun, capturing that light and transforming it into work that moves, glides, and reflects feeling and sophistication.

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.

Not exact matches

Our profound need for a powerful, attractive, imaginative picture of the way God is related to our world demands that we not only deconstruct but reconstruct our metaphors, letting the ones that seem promising try their chance.

«I think this kind of event with shoes offers a very powerful metaphor both for how we miss the victims who once filled those shoes and also for how we see ourselves wanting to walk in their place, seeking change, so that others don't have to walk this painful journey.»

Scored lightly by a series of Brian Eno compositions, The Jacket is an apocalyptic poem of love and loss that's unusually wise about its visual vocabulary — about ways of looking, the line between dreaming and reality, and how eyes on film can be a powerful and elastic metaphor for the audience engaged in a kind of liquid dreaming.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

In the opposite direction, Fabian Suarez's Caballos offers an intimate look at the intellectual elite of a different Havana, shot in black and white, in which the titular horses become metaphor for the powerful, fragile or prosaic nature of its inhabitants.

Sporting intentionally mannered dialogue and Cronenberg's patented icy remove, «Cosmopolis» is cold to the touch, offering an apt metaphor for a society in which wealth and technology have stripped the powerful of their humanity.

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.

We wanted them to think in metaphor and use powerful sections from the texts we studied as inspiration for their art.

«The powerful image of subterranean skullduggery tirelessly proceeding beneath the heart of the city, brilliantly exploited in several key scenes, supplies just the right metaphor for the Victorian muckraking Perry might as well have patented.»

Fire makes for a powerful metaphor.

The conflict of El Quimbo, however, is not only this; it is also a metaphor of the conflict that has been staining Colombia with blood for half a century: flexibility in favour of the powerful, inutility of legal and peaceful forms of opposition, a democracy deaf to the voices of its citizens, the necessity to protect one's own life project.

These powerful creatures in whimsical scenes are a metaphor for the human experience, demonstrating the balance between having fun and giving life purpose.

Transformed by his costume made of raw meat into a visual metaphor for the city itself — flayed but still enormously powerful — he engaged random pedestrians during a walk through the Upper East Side of Manhattan in a performative meditation on the fundamental social dynamic — an exchange between two people — and its role in promoting healing and social stability.Symposium «Flânerie and the Politics of Public Space»

An overhead glass ceiling — popular metaphor for the barrier on women's professional ambitions — reinforces the sense that the most powerful social controls are unseen and unacknowledged.

To the (once so powerful) Catholic patrons of the arts it was a metaphor for the Annunciation and a representation of the Garden of Eden.

Water, which can hide by covering up, reveal by erosion, or act as a medium for mixing disparate elements, has become a powerful metaphor in his present series, which suggests the interpenetration between urban social exchange and physical structures.

Forerunners in a major new artistic development, the sculptures in Unmonumental are powerful but patently un-heroic; assembled from bits of the world at large, they are sardonic metaphors for our time.

As a rule we don't, for example, use metaphor — a particularly powerful tool for communicating complicated concepts in a simple and accessible way — nearly enough.

(That's another thing I watch for BTW, the repeated and deliberate use of «SBW» and the avoidance of «CBR»... so «greenhouse», despite being a broken metaphor and «Superstorm Sandy» instead of «not quite a hurricane and less powerful than those in recorded history; plus, a midget compared to what's seen in the non-historical geologic record of the sand bars.»

The metaphor of a journey is a powerful and resonant one for laypeople encountering the legal system.

I'm grateful for the metaphors we came up with too — they're powerful and I'll always remember them!»