Sentences with phrase «powerful metaphor of»

Danny Lyon wrote: «A powerful metaphor of America, Margaret Morton's The Tunnel shows the beauty of people we shun, and the light in a world we can not see.»

In this forum in which Jeff Duncan - Andrade draws from Tupac Shakur's powerful metaphor of the rose that grows from concrete, as well as research in fields such as public health, social epidemiology, and psychology.

Then Ryan Niemec, Educational Director, VIA Institute on Character, shared insights from his book, Positive Psychology at the Movies showing how films contain powerful metaphors of character strengths in action and inspire us to embrace our signature strengths.

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Indeed, the problem with the Holocaust as a memory and a metaphor today is precisely that it is too powerful, an ever «expanding black hole of consciousness that invariably swallows up everything in its path.

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.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to describe reality.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to...

«92 Grasping generates solution to immediate problem as well as universalization of the images» particularity.93 W. Berry notes with concern that «the most powerful and the most destructive change of modern times has been a change in language: the rise of the image, or metaphor, of the machine.

It's one of the most powerful metaphors in any language, and it is the substance by which we measure our humanity.

«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.»

And he is at his usual best here, casting fresh light on biblical truths, engaging readers with the compelling metaphor, turning the arresting phrase, and reminding all that the love of God is more powerful and sweeping than we can imagine.

The most powerful metaphors in the Judeo - Christian tradition are metaphors of the way, the journey, the exodus, the road, the highway.

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

To develop this procedure, Gregory commented upon a powerful metaphor from Ezekiel, who spoke of first digging at a wall until there appeared a door, through which he then went in where he beheld the «abominations,» the hoary characters, the fantasies of deceit.

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

Assessing the Client's Current Situation, Resources, Strengths, and Challenges Using Mindful Listening, Reflections, Powerful Questions, and Metaphor: Triad Coaching Practice of The Initial Coaching Session

In The Brood the metaphor is both on the surface — the emotionally damaged Nola (Samantha Eggar) transforms her most powerful emotional impulses into biological incarnations of her darkest desires — and underneath it.

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.

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.

Lethe, the river in Hades from which dead souls drink water to forget earthly life, is just one of the powerful metaphors flowing through the haunting journeys in Sixty Six.

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.

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.

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

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.

«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.»

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.

The soft power of architectural propaganda is a powerful tool of ideological enterprise, and here Novoa provokes an understanding of society's trajectory as a metaphor of history repeating itself.

Opie's oeuvre centers on a range of powerful metaphors drawn from an intense study of the environment.

Through symbol, metaphor, and mythic storytelling, Sahagun's works construct a viscerally powerful alternative vision of Chicago community history, through which we may ponder the minute alongside the infinite, the mundane in concert with the divine.

Experiencing Washington's work is a kind of visual excavation, as the intricate layers convey a subtle yet powerful metaphor.

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»

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.

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.

Knox continues his powerful use of metaphor applied to these paintings of Woman.

The Merchant House is pleased to announce our TMH Winter Group Show featuring Italian artist Pino Pinelli in dialogue with the two Dutch artists, Kees Visser and André de Jong, from the gallery program.The show highlights how, notwithstanding their powerful distinctive work, these artists share a number of artistic techniques and concepts: palpable texture and nonlinear, or curved, geometry, which implicitly connect to the ideas of metaphor, allegory, and figure.

Transforming light, fragile, often impermanent materials into powerful sculptures of commanding scale and presence, Black creates abstract works that resolutely eschew metaphor while simultaneously beckoning a complex series of associations.

Using imagery of mammies, pickninnies, sambos and other racial stereotypes, these silhouettes present a powerful metaphor which she describes as something that «says a lot with very little information».

«They allow people to see Africa in a new and different way that counters all of the negative stereotypes and preconceived notions, so that it is a very powerful metaphor at the beginning of the show.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

EcCT presents the couple with generative metaphors that serve as powerful images to anchor the journey of relational transformation.