Sentences with phrase «style as a metaphor»

A teacher uses clothing style as a metaphor for language style to emphasize the importance of style - shifting.

Not exact matches

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

However a human could rationalise the faulty belief by reinterpreting the metaphor in a newspaper style as «the cure for the political turmoil that beset the inhabitants of thalassemia».

former punker + still learning «work appropriate» stylings + trying desperately to keep hold of her giant boots as self - aware metaphor for ephemeral youth + colorblocking

Rowling's prose style, for one, suffers from several basic problems, such as comma splices, mixed metaphors, pleonasms, repetition and stock phrases.

Gen's mentoring style is to teach the chessboard as a metaphor for a land protected, with the idea that a kid thinking many moves ahead in a game will do so in making a life.

It's tennis - playing - style as (obvious) metaphor for human relationships.

It was written with a strong metaphor, in more of a picture book / storytelling style, so that it is as valid as part of a literature class as it is for science.

Descriptive language can be characterized as structure independence, slow manner of description, unexpected deviations from the topic, association, metaphors, rhetoric devices, possible variations of word - combinations — everything confirms to the style of writing descriptive essays.

Employing the postmodern technique of pastiche, where the close display of disparate images and styles tends to reduce everything to equivalent signs, Salle's paintings function as metaphors for the dizzying onslaught of media culture.

When the native Chinese rule was reinstated, during the time of Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), court artists, headed by Dai Lin, painted conservative images that reintroduced the Song metaphor for the country as the well - organized imperial garden, and literati painters focused on pursuing their self - expression, seen in the works of Yuan scholar - artists such as Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming, who dedicated their lives to the reinterpretation of Yuan scholar style.

These are some questions raised in Freedom as Form, a group exhibition that intends to direct our attention to the artists» different styles and ways to approach art as a metaphor for their freedom of expression.

Stine's descriptive style becomes a metaphor for natural diversity even as she negotiates the tension inherent to the combination of abstract and minutely detailed surfaces.

The rhinestones and glitter that have become signatures of Thomas's work — used to shade lips, hair and nails in a pointillist style — draw attention to themselves as decorative elements, but they are also symbols and signifiers of femininity, of glitz and glamour, that serve as metaphors for artifice.