Sentences with phrase «thing as a metaphor»

I thought I was just writing a nice little homage to my friends and the way that they set me free in so many ways, using the bikini thing as a metaphor, but instead I set off a modesty debate in the comment section that left me shaking my head.

Or do we see the whole thing as a metaphor?

Imagine her now 16 years old, So, would you tell her that the authors of the Bible wrote the whole thing as a metaphor.

Not exact matches

Such little things can be telling, much as using the word «czar» to describe a presidential appointee who wields unaccountable power is a metaphor that may disguise a literal truth.

Without the use of personal, agential metaphors, however, including among others God as mother, father, healer, lover, friend, judge, and liberator, the metaphor of the world as God's body would be pantheistic, for the body would be all there were.25 Nonetheless, the model is most precisely designated as panentheistic; that is, it is a view of the God - world relationship in which all things have their origins in God and nothing exists outside God, though this does not mean that God is reduced to these things.26

This is going to be a shock — the men who actually wrote all the parts in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD in Rome — were not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!!!

The only thing guaranteed to be true about a person's interpretation of the bible is that the literal statements are considered metaphors and the metaphorical statements are always taken as fact.

«The whole spiritual world is an irrelevant kind of thing except as a metaphor for values.»

As if Oprah's favorite things were somehow in the neighborhood of the crucifixion and resurrection, the AP reports that the pastor says «the prizes are a metaphor for the Easter message of the ultimate giveaway.»

I pretty much dismissed the Adam and Eve story as metaphor but now that you present this evidence I may have to rethink things.

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines metaphor as «a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable... a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.»

Young as the human species is, it displays remarkable capacities: to think and reason and imagine; to ask questions and seek answers; to use language, metaphors and symbols; to ponder the mystery of origins; to locate oneself on maps of meaning; to project ideals and seek their realization; to ask how one fits into the most inclusive scheme of things.

If beauty — not a particular beauty, but any beautiful thing — is a metaphor of the sacred, then there is no such thing as a uniquely «religious» or ecclesiastical idiom in architecture or in the other arts.

Metaphors, I said, may momentarily encourage us to see patterns which we might not have noticed (the process which Black termed «construing as»), but models systematically suggest distinctive ways of looking at things (for which I proposed the term «interpreting as» in preference to Hick's phrase, «experiencing as»).

As usual, thinking makes me ponder Arsenal, and my outlook on things football is a kinda metaphor for my outlook on life.

Actually, it is time to talk about the things that Vince Cable was talking about after he joined the Cabinet and before metaphors such as Europe being stuck in a blazing house began to dominate statements by the coalition.

So if we're talking about war — the real thing, not a metaphor, as in the «war on drugs» — then cyberwar has never happened in the past, is not taking place at present, and seems unlikely in the future.

Discovered one night by troubled little Samuel (Noah Wiseman) and read to him by his mom, long - suffering palliative - care nurse Amelia (Essie Davis — stardom awaits), the book foretells the arrival of a Jack White - looking thing (Tim Purcell) that serves as an unfortunately obvious metaphor for repressed grief.

And so it is with DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, a stark portrayal of class warfare played out as an elegant game of chess, one of the films» many metaphors, where the pawns are people and their pain real.

The script he has written can be viewed in two ways, either as a metaphor for himself being weary of falling in love, or to make things more Freudian, an unflattering view of his mother.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is about to land in theaters after a highly - publicized and turbulent flight, and if you'll allow me to belabor the metaphor, it sounds as if director Ron Howard managed to pull this particular spaceship out of a potentially disastrous nosedive and smooth things out in a satisfying way.

(Oh, I get it, it's a metaphor for strange hair, jerking - off, and embarrassing hard - ons — no wonder I identify with these things again as I get older.)

Since Anderson serves as cinematographer, there is sense in which the movie could be read as metaphor: Reynolds, the tortured, haunted, demanding artist may function as a stand - in for his writer - director - cinematographer author, who like Reynolds makes things that are, whatever else one might say about them, undeniably beautiful.

«A dominant metaphor for young children's cognitive development is that the child is a scientist who does handson experiments, such as with things that float versus sink, and revises his or her ideas about the world like a scientist,» Harris says.

We will need to immerse students in language that, in 9th grader Kinsey's words, «I connect to, or that I think hold brilliance, such as metaphors, symbolic meanings or things that make me wish that I had come up with them.»

Things change all the time in terms of the Amazon algorithms and pricing opportunities and paid advertising sites go up and down... I think it's best to always think of play and enjoying the journey (as per the skiing metaphor!)

He also treats the background as abstract painting, whether to flatten things further or as a metaphor for the enigma of the jungle.

The Thing that Does Not Need to Come Up for Air Sixth Floor Project Space, 2PM — 6PM Mairead Delaney with Tamer Hassan A durational performance examining the ritual of the interrogation through gesture and metaphor, using the bell as both object of extracted information and clamoring voice.

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Just as in the song, «I'm settin» here wonderin» would a matchbox hold my clothes / I ain't got so many matches but I got so far to go,» it's the matchbox being the conscious metaphor to strip down to the bare essentials, leaving behind things that may have defined your place under previous conditions.

The layers in which he surrounds the body, both metaphorically and literally, such as the fattening - up or thinning - down of people and things, are sculptural metaphors for an existential insecurity about the boundaries of oneself.

But then he introduced a metaphor to Krystalnacht, even after knowing the pain such things cause to people to whom «more weight must be given... as their concerns were heartfelt and understandable.»

When he gets steamed he mixes metaphors like «jousting with jesters» not quite realizing that the old court jesters would be able to tell the king things (truths) no one else could, as Steve noted at the time.

Wright is very convincing on the fact that apocalyptic language of disaster — the sun and moon falling into the sea, all that kind of thing — was never intended to be about the end of the space - time universe (as has often been assumed by later generations) but is a metaphor for forthcoming socio - political change and tumult.

For people who've been having trouble understanding the radiation crisis in Japan, maybe an animated video that uses poop as a metaphor for radiation will help clear things up.

In fact, it can be incredibly helpful to use existing mental models as a metaphor for things we don't quite have our heads around just yet.