Sentences with phrase «than a metaphor»

For her, sight is more than a metaphor.

The similarity, scientists now say, is more than metaphor: Techniques developed for predicting earthquakes may someday be used to warn patients that a brain seizure is on the way.

I think some of the Bible is early science rather than metaphor - with hypotheses (plural) as to beginnings.

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

In this view, the depiction of the congregation is more appropriately Paul's image of the household than his metaphor of an earthen vessel holding separate treasure.

While ordinary theologians can not conceive that ontological truth would be accessible in forms other than metaphor, myth and symbol, scientist - theologians tend to be dissatisfied with anything less than relatively straightforward concepts that can claim truth.

The result is less science fiction than a metaphor drawn from it: a peculiar family portrait whose characters, though all lost in their own space, never stray far from their immediate earthbound environs (except in flights of fancy).

At its best, «There Will Be Blood» is nothing less than a metaphor for the birth of modern America: marred by conflict, colored by religious fervor, and written by self - made tycoons.

Archaeology has become less a discipline than a metaphor.

The existence of Heaven and Hell is nothing more than a Metaphor.

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

This reverend is touching on something very important, but doesn't quite define it fully, perhaps neglecting to realize himself that what he speaks of is more than a metaphor.

In fact, the description of Greek and Latin as «dead» languages was sometimes felt as more than metaphor.

Carving and penciling are but metaphors, and more than metaphors are necessary to show why the suppression of conscience is more violent and explosive than its mere weakening would be.

Two millennia later, Plato's cave may be more than a metaphor.

And research shows that this characterization is more than a metaphor: open people literally see things differently in terms of basic visual perception.

«Weighed down by guilt: Research shows it's more than a metaphor.»

«In Leon's Guido Brunetti mysteries, Venice becomes more than setting, more than metaphor.

This is something more than metaphor.

It is more than a metaphor to say the light of the historical past is with us now; we live in a time when we eagerly discuss starlight that has reached us, just today, from billions of years ago.

To be sure, a guarantee that in the final analysis rests on little more than a metaphor is not the most solid basis to erect a doctrine upon....

Self - control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: Willpower is more than a metaphor.