Sentences with phrase «use of metaphor at»

One sign of a great philosopher is his effective use of metaphor at just the right moment.

Not exact matches

One is tempted to use laundry duty as a metaphor for the priestly task of cleansing the soiled soul, & c, & c.but it is at the same time more mundane and more exalted than that.

(I apologize to those that dislike metaphors, but I almost can't communicate if I don't get to use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the language of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).

Catholicism stresses the «like» of any comparison (human passion is like divine passion), while Protestantism, when it is willing to use metaphors (and it must if it is to talk about God at all), stresses the unlike.»

And because in its origin the word had meant not simply man's breathing but God's wind, it became the verbal agent by which man could say that his best life is inbreathed by God — inspired, as we say, using the same metaphor Latinized — so that ruach at last meant the Spirit of God inspiring the spirit of man.

For those Christians who recognize that Jesus frequently used parables and metaphor, and therefore consider that at least some other parts of the bible are meant as parables or metaphorically as well, it's not necessarily a matter of picking and choosing.

It's clear that at least some of the bible is meant as metaphor and parable, since Jesus himself is quoted as using parables to teach.

To appeal to the Quine's metaphor from his famous essay «Two Dogmas of Empiricism» (TDE 42 - 46), if the synthetic and the analytic are not dichotomous, but rather the respective periphery and center of a web of knowledge and beliefs, then our casual use of the word mass lies at the periphery, while our technical meaning lies near the center.

The dominant metaphor Harris uses for Church is that of an army at war.

Not to use a common, coarse English metaphor, but it's the only one I can think of at the moment.

«They almost always use drug metaphors, like «higher than any high you can experience,» said Paul Williamson, a professor of psychology at Henderson State University in Arkansas who studies serpent handlers.

Goldstein's book is at its best when the conversations veer personal, and she gets to make use of clever metaphors from ordinary modern life.

Gove's more pugilistic side may have softened since his time as education secretary — you'll no longer find him using military metaphors and pledging to vanquish «the enemies of promise», in public, at least — but he clearly retains his impulse for confronting the inertia of the political establishment.

At the end of that book he famously used God as a metaphor for the laws of nature: «If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of reason — for then we should know the mind of God.»

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.

Well, that metaphor is only used to make you understand the kind of active and grander experience you get at Uberhorny with regards to adult dating.

He uses their experiences with a loud upstairs neighbor playing Bob Dylan's «Sara» at all hours of the night as a metaphor for international relations.

It's not at all surprising to hear it often suggested that the entire film is a metaphor for various sorts of drug use.

Establishing a sharp metaphor within a narrative that at once challenges and breaks down the sexual tropes of the genre, Mitchell uses a staggeringly original and timeless visual language to accentuate and confront relatable troubles and terrors of adolescence.

Duets is the first feature about karaoke I've seen, and Byrum uses it as a suggestive metaphor for the dreams of three sets of characters who've lost their way in terms of their personal and family identities: a karaoke hustler (Huey Lewis) who meets his daughter — a Vegas showgirl played by Paltrow — for the first time at the funeral of her mother; a traveling salesman (Paul Giamatti) who flips his lid after flying to Houston instead of Orlando and then going home to an indifferent wife and kids, and who eventually splits and hooks up with an ex-con (Andre Braugher); and a young cabdriver (Scott Speedman) who reluctantly agrees to drive a waitress and part - time hooker (Maria Bello) out west.

By its end, «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night» uses its tangible metaphor to reject that very sentiment and transcend the restrictions of its dark milieu.

Sanitized of all emotion, the camera perpetually closing in, eating away at the frame, Sacred Deer explores the fading power of the patriarch, using metaphors of pubescent maturation and the fears of one's offspring's lost innocence to tell a mysterious clash of medical science and mysticism.

In truth, that seems to be the very point of Brennan's intervention («the New Queer Television can count the generation of filmmakers identified by B. Ruby Rich as its foremost progenitor»); has queer only begat queer (and must we really use a reproductive metaphor to extoll queerness at all?).

To use another of his metaphors, their success at each stage will «contaminate» the neighborhood; if enough children receive the same positive messages about education, these messages will become normative, and self - improvement will become a realistic goal.

Here numbers and facts might be easy to dismiss, but faces, names and stories have power — great examples of this can be seen at the People Killed Since Newton and US Gun Deaths sites.Do MoreCreating good infographics is a challenging activity — here you have develop useful graphic metaphors, use appropriate fonts, maximize your whitespace and confront variety of other design considerations.

Following of from writing about the description of The Captain at the opening of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island this activity gets students to write their own description of a pirate encouraging the use of adjectives, similes, metaphors, and speech, with speech marks.

When Fordham Institute and Education Next starting using ballistic metaphors at the time of the Boston Marathon I got exceedingly angry.

In this workshop we looked at different relationships between sound and image; how you can use moving images to stimulate poetry writing and performance; using digital cameras to explore metaphor; the process of planning a soundtrack; and using Final Cut Express semi-professional editing software to add movement and effects to still images.

In 2011 two psychologists at Stanford set out to understand how the use of metaphor affects the way people think about crime.

Her use of metaphor is fresh and surprising, whether she is describing the Shivalik Hills that would, «stand like they always stood against the morning sky, whipped and creamy like clotted ghee,» the desert beside the road to Mirpur Khas that, «seemed to unfold endlessly, and devouringly, like a bolt of cloth unfurling in all directions that the slightest wind raised and flapped like the sides of a tent,» or New York City where, «the yellow - lit restaurant, our tiny table at its center, the over-stuffed warmth of our wool sweaters, and even the bitterness of our coffees formed a supreme and cardinal quiet, like the very center of a storm.»

Using the MP3 metaphor from above, just as consumers are still listening to music like they did 20 years ago, it's just now at a fraction of the cost and in a more flexible format.

The term «The Law of the Jungle» is also used in a similar context, drawn from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894)-- though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos.

Like the working furniture of artisanal labourers, instructive metaphors may be constructed using the means at hand and informed by direct engagement with the context that presents itself.

To emphasize the dialectic between beauty and fear and the vastness of the Pacific, where day and night occur simultaneously at different geographic points, Chandra + Stewart use the metaphor of the negative, or inversion.

Looking at Cindy Sherman's recent photos, I thought, eventually, of what in the lit - crit practice of my college years used to be called «image clusters»: groups of related metaphors and other verbal figures that run through the works of some writers — Shakespeare, Dickens — embedding a mood and character in the language of each text.

For the show, Birte Kleemann, Director at The Pace Gallery, selected works that examine the treatment of Mercy as represented from devotional paintings to the use of the artist's body as a metaphor for the suffering of humankind in contemporary works.

This series uses digital technology to create a dynamic painting depicting vivid images of animals in countless flowers that constantly bloom and wither, at once expanding the expressive forms of color and making a metaphor for the connected, cyclical nature of natural life.

Like the press release of Schmoetzer's recent solo show, A rare bird in Estonia at Kunstihoone in Tallinn, the accompanying text for Bird of the Year 2022 points to his use of narrative and metaphor to weave together and describe small and ungraspable moments.

Whitney is, as should now be apparent, among the supreme colorists of contemporary painting, but what's amazed me in his drawings has been his mysterious ability to communicate the variable weights and densities of color, as he does in his paintings — without actually using color at all, instead relying on pure line to express, as if through metaphor, chromatic differentiae.

Very often left open for discussion, and through clever use of universal metaphors and delicate color symbolism, they provide a mixed view at both artist's intimate world and associations of shared experiences of everyday moments and recognizable human conditions.

Contemporary art from elsewhere gave me far more — the Kabakovs with their tremendous lament for a mother Russia that might have been, using the illusion of cinema as the purest of metaphors; the lissome visions of the Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair in painting and sculpture at Tate Modern — Islam meeting modernism.

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.

Bauman came out of the 2010 mess impatient to take another swing at the ball (a metaphor he uses frequently).

In a talk I heard yesterday at the Southern California Mediation Association annual conference, Lee Jay Berman used the metaphor of a funnel to describe how how the legal system squeezes the issues involved in conflicts to the shape of a dried - out hamburger patty, so that most of the concerns of the participants in the dispute get left out of the process.

The trial judge noted that the complainant only got angry after the alleged assault, and was far more upset when another person humiliated her that night (Crown factum, at para 65); for an excellent paper on the gendered nature of hysteria, see Jonnette Watson Hamilton, «The Use of Metaphor and Narrative to Construct Gendered Hysteria In the Courts» (2002) 1 Journal of Law 7 Equality 155.

Abella J accomplishes this new / old dichotomy through her deft use of metaphor directed at the majority decision.

You can convey my equal displeasure at the hackneyed and stilted language in this article, dead metaphors and the gratuitous use of junk science.

This workshop will initially introduce metaphors, symbolism, and storytelling in play therapy and then move in to looking at the practical side of making therapeutic stories with clients using expressive play modalities.

One of the tools counselors at Emily Cook Therapy often use during therapy sessions is metaphor.

Lowenfeld argues fairy tales are an effective way to access two worlds at the same time — a fantasy world and one's internal world through the use of metaphors.