Sentences with phrase «striking metaphor for»

In this exhibition, which is all about identity, migration, and survival, these impressive images can be seen as a striking metaphor for the continent's troubled history.

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In a striking example combining metaphor and humor, Koko made a joke about being a «sad elephant» because she was reduced to drinking water through a thick rubber straw as a solution to her constant nagging one morning for more drinks of juice (IULG 534).

Watching the latest, entirely hapless, efforts of Theresa May to seem like a normal human person by attempting to participate in that most regrettable of group activities, a Mexican wave, your columnist was struck by how apt a metaphor it was for the ineptitude shown by Liverpool FC in their transfer strategy so far this summer.

Similarly to the Rands, the president is stirred by Chauncey's turn of phrase, finding his mutterings about groundskeeping to be a deeply penetrative insight on the human condition encoded in a lush metaphor («Spring is the time for planting,» and other such banalities somehow strike the intelligentsia as freely profound).

I chased The Other Side Of Hope with a film whose existential metaphors and appreciation for the drudgery and social habits of working stiffs couldn't be more different from Kaurismäki's droll, Capra-esque humanism: Good Luck (Grade: B), a striking documentary mood - piece by the American experimental director Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness).

As the two disparate New Yorkers strike up an unlikely friendship, it sure sounds like «learning to drive» will be a metaphor for more than just, you know, learning to drive.

In addition to Doctorow's striking metaphor, his response also attacked the logic of DRM as effective protection for the publisher and author.

Raymond Pettibon's drawings, in which he combines picture and text, are striking for their almost incomprehensible depth of ideas, subject matters, associations, and metaphors.

A blown - glass sculpture in the form of a jar filled with puffballs of dandelion seeds was the silent still - point in the room, a stirring vision in white full of magic and mystery that struck me as the perfect, haunting metaphor for the Diaspora itself: people, dispersed, like so much blown dandelion fluff.

By casting jagged reflections on gallery walls, they create a striking visual metaphor for Santiago Muñoz's interest in breaking and transforming conventional images of the Caribbean — and specifically, her native Puerto Rico.

Whereas the theme and subject of color is often a formal and exhausted premise for a show, Pica uses color to its full advantage, as both a metaphor and categorical approach — looking so incredibly familiar and unassuming at first, but also striking a larger concern of how we communicate and process language.

At worst, torturing the sports metaphors still further, some judges might have an «expanded strike zone,» allowing for a liberal interpretation and others a more restrictive «narrow strike zone» but even in those cases, the judge / umpire equally applies that zone to both teams.

Apart from the creepiness of the «attorney in my pocket» metaphor, this referral program strikes me as blatantly unethical for lawyers.