Sentences with phrase «rather than metaphors»

The Minimalist art movement originated in New York City in the 1960s and focuses on materials rather than metaphors, drama or emotion.

Not exact matches

(In a commonly used metaphor, they prefer investing in the jockey rather than the horse.)

Meanwhile, a wide array of scientists and experts have come to the same recommendation — intense work liberally sprinkled with breaks to increase output — through research rather than athletic metaphors.

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.

If one accepts that metaphors (and all language about God) are principally adverbial, having to do with how we relate to God rather than defining the nature of God, then no metaphors or models can be reified, petrified, or expanded so as to exclude all others.

Metaphor always has the character of is and is not: an assertion is made but as a likely account rather than a definition.»

Tell you what, you come find me when you use that Bible to actually make a testable prediction in advance, rather than waiting for other people to do all the hard work and then glumming onto it and trying to back - wedge it into your va gue metaphors.

Ricocur asserts that metaphors rather than being pictorial words are metaphorical statements.

I take it as established that, for Bergson, calculus is more than just a handy metaphor or analogy, but rather, he indeed aimed at framing an approach to the organicist world hypothesis that employs the calculus as its actual method of discovery (i.e., differentiation) and explanation (i.e., integration), and that every discovery is the inverse of an explanation and every explanation the derivative of a discovery.

The modern emphasis of metaphor, Westermann notes, is on a piece of text rather than on a single word.

But he says this symbolism is «adherent,, rather than being a true act of language (a true act of language being, for example, the metaphor, which is a free invention of speech).

In any case, we can see that his metaphors for God's active presence enlarged upon and enriched the biblical tradition, rather than being simply derivative.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

Since a developing tradition does not sharpen and isolate metaphors but rather mixes and blunts them, we may assume that these two sayings have given nse to the tradition of faith «moving mountains» in the Church rather than vice versa, and there is good reason to accept their authenticity.

And while some TV has been essential viewing for believers because a show finds a way to show a Christian as an actual character rather than a stereotype, TWD succeeds spiritually as an overall metaphor, rather than putting just one or two believable Christ followers on screen.

Here we see why an ontology based on the metaphor of habit rather than law or mechanical action and reaction is superior for describing the order in nature.

Given the aesthetic «root metaphor» of Whitehead's metaphysics, the main thrust of his position is teleological rather than deontological with respect to ethics.

So while it is all well and good to imagine that each of us has managers, exiles, and firefighters struggling to get along within ourselves, the transfer of those metaphors back again to the actual human population from which the metaphorical functions were borrowed in the first place only distorts reality rather than helping to explain it.

Metaphor, for example, consists of words that are clearly distinct, drawn from two different realms («the sun is a chariot»), rather than two words that can actually be equated («God is sacred»).

So, going forward, to use the metaphor of the body, we'll have a «brain'that is the core application, that listens and responds to the «organs» efficiently, rather than trying to manage all the needs of the body itself.

Zio I always appreciate your cogent and sceptical critiques - including the talent for metaphor - though it tends more to the pessimism of the intellect rather than the optimism of the will.

So these metaphors reinforce rather than heal the divides in the NHS.

Schneider recommends «three rules» of advocacy: explicitly stating when one's views reflect values rather than science; using colorful, easy - to - grasp metaphors; and producing a «hierarchy of products,» ranging from sound bites to op - eds to scholarly papers to lengthy books «where you can put in all the caveats.»

George and his co-authors propose moving toward different types of metaphors — those that encourage use of words like «slow» or «postpone» rather than «prevent» or «cure,» and emphasize building «resilience» to aging processes in the brain rather than aiming at «absolute victory» over a disease.

And, for that, it could be said to be a game better viewed as one to experience rather than to play, and the fact that it tries to encompass so many deep psychological metaphors in the videogame format is an ambition worth praising.

You see I want to talk about the film's structure, how its episodic and unfocused storyline actually points toward its origins as a manga, and how while having little in the way of actual plot the film uses metaphor and subplot as text rather than subtext.

Jennifer Aniston delivers an Oscar - calibre performance in this rather over-worked drama, which tries to emphasise heavy - handed metaphors more than the characters themselves.

What I took away most from In the Heart of the Sea was more than just some mindless giant sperm whale wreaking havoc on the Essex, but rather a metaphor of nature exacting its revenge on global industry much like Godzilla destroying Tokyo for its irresponsibility with nuclear power.

This is both the broad metaphor at the heart of the president's own political career and a nice summation of what the film accomplishes - by holding these characters up to be judged as human beings rather than saints, it has pricked the balloon of myth that surrounds much of what transpired.

It's beside the point to reveal whether or not we actually see any aliens in Signs because their alleged existence stands as a metaphor for a different kind of alienation, just as the title refers to a religious manifestation rather than the crop circles.

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.

«Logan» is marred by the silly metaphor that effectively has Logan fighting himself, and by Mangold's inability to resist making the film's parallels to the classic Western «Shane» a part of the text rather than allowing viewers to notice them for themselves.

Kate Plays Christine movingly posits acting as a metaphor for the search for connection, through visceral texture rather than platitude.

Although the iron triangle metaphor has been invoked in condemnations of teacher unions, such criticism has often focused on the misguided actions of union bosses rather than on the views of the teachers that the unions claim to represent.

The editorial trivialized the got - to - go incident, saying the principal had «gone off the reservation» (now there's an offensive metaphor for you) rather than looking at it as symptomatic of a more systemic problem.

Rather than dumping information onto participants, organizers relied on metaphors of nature and nurture — allowing attendees to draw their own conclusions about the connection between a night walk through the woods and working in and with a high - needs school.

Occasionally, though, setting becomes something more — the architect replacing the decorator — and a metaphor emerges that enhances meaning and helps develop character rather than just prettifying plot.»

In this new role as a partner rather than a traditional publisher, however, I became more engaged with the lives of the businesses and organisations I've worked with, and over the course of the last year came a quiet revelation: to stretch the astronomical metaphor to its limits, the book is not a lone star but the centre of a solar system.

Much like other indie horror titles, Little Nightmares is about showing rather than telling, and every last metaphor in the narrative can be picked apart if you take the time the analyse its symbolism.

His treatment of his long - standing themes became a kind of metaphor of painting rather than an index of what he painted.

It is a certain kind of groundedness on the one hand, and on the other hand — I won't call it a romantic sensibility — but a willingness to evoke rather than to state, a willingness to use the variable memories of an audience to infuse a given artist's metaphor with content beyond its literal description.

A strategy of alignment rather than collage recalls Modernism's preference for the literal over metaphors.

Instead, the landscape is increasingly more mythical and epic, and metaphor is derived from nature rather than from culturally produced objects.

Al - Hadid frequently, including in an interview that appears in the museum's exhibition pamphlet, aligns her practice with the act of building rather than with metaphors of decay.

Rather than attempting heroism in his poetry, Creeley chose the domestic — he wrote about love, friendship, family, and things close to home in plain language, without metaphors.

Rather than a question of rupture such as collage technique offers, there may be an echo here of Surrealist interest in psychological metaphors of the subterranean — automatic writing is certainly a reference the artist has alluded to in the past.

Lutz and Mold's work extends the metaphor of crash to mash and mesh in their dealing with the internet's mashup culture driven by a «desire for a forward motion», whereby they rather aestheticise destruction than the clean and sleek over-tones of much of digital culture.

Rather than being viewed as a harmless game amongst comrades, the scene serves as a metaphor for the aggressive human urge for expansion.

British artist Sarah Lucas can be seen in Verhoeven's use of furniture and inanimate objects to symbolise the female form, breaking it down into parts rather than viewing as a whole — a metaphor for the male gaze.

It is a «debunking» of something so fundamental that it makes one's jaw drop — as I noted above, using paralysis rather than drooling as a metaphor.