Sentences with phrase «use of the metaphor of»

This use of the metaphor of the family to designate the church gets support from theologians.

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Coles uses a doughnut as a «metaphor for your ex — warm, sweet, familiar, and loaded with trans fats that clog the arteries and eventually lead to a blockage of the heart.»

So, he started using more metaphors and analogies and sharing more of himself in status meetings and casual conversations.

Nope: Last week I made fun of the tendency of dealmakers to use romantic metaphors to describe M&A transactions.

Take George Orwell's advice: «Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech that you are used to seeing in print.»

He uses the metaphor of mountain climbing:

Hashimoto (CEO) and Dadgar (CTO) use the metaphor of the power grid to explain their tools: Think of an app as an electronic device, and HashiCorp services as the transmission lines that carry power to it.

Most books on the topic of sales use game or war metaphors.

Asked about the adequacy of the scale of any these initiatives, Barton's answers often start with variations on his favoured metaphor of the flywheel — the industrial - age image of a heavy wheel used to build power on a revolving shaft.

By being self - aware of your own thought processes, you can consciously edit out a tendency to think in battlefield metaphors and reframe situations using the ecosystem model.

Perhaps Dropbox founder Drew Houston described this quality best, using the metaphor of a tennis ball.

So let's use a metaphor for something they already like: Game of Thrones.

Or, to use Horowitz's more colorful metaphor: «Hiring senior people into a start - up is kind of like an athlete taking performance - enhancing drugs.

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Pulitzer Prize - winning American poet Robert Frost was famous for using rural country metaphors when examining important philosophical issues of the modern world...

Moneyball was used as a metaphor to illustrate the power of analytics in health care and targeted hospitals, health systems and large physician groups.

For example, Pinterest decided to use the vocabulary of pinning in boards to reinforce a physical metaphor.

Jesus is reported as using the same metaphor in John 11 in describing the condition of Lazarus (who had died unexpectedly) to his disciples.

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.

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

But the fact that Mailer would even try now to use a prose style so alien to his own famous mixture of fancy - footed pugnaciousness and bone - crunching metaphor suggests that he aims neither to titillate the infidels nor undo the faithful.

As it turns out, Jesus uses the metaphor of Father because in Oriental thought of that day the first born son was thought to inherit all, including character traits, from his father.

Because Jesus used metaphors that created mental pictures in the right brain of His listeners.

When Song of Songs, for instance, uses metaphors for body parts (stone pillars, fawns, flowers) it is using analogies that make sense that the time.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Moreover, we are unlikely win them back to a more correct understanding if we begin by accusing them of a kind of spiritual treason, or to use a more medical metaphor, if we begin by diagnosing them as suffering from some kind of ideological infection.

To use the metaphor of the seed, each seed produces after its own kind - apple seed make apple trees, which make apples.

Ramanuja used the body - soul metaphor to indicate the sense in which God is the inner director of all things.

This form of the cosmic conception was then related to God through the use of a body - soul metaphor and a unique substance - accident theory.

For example, pastors and the Bible often use the metaphor of a father in relation to God.

Roberts analyzes the destructive nature of anger that Paul warned about using metaphors from psychology and computer language to clarify anger's positive and negative qualities, and to present a Christian model of how to master its destructive potential.

(We do not have in our language a comparative for the adjective «past» — something like «paster» — thus our language again has to use a metaphor of spatial distance: «more remote in the past.»)

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.

Jesus used the mustard seed as a metaphor but did not actually refer to it as the smallest of seeds.

When Noll speaks of Equiano's «immersion» in Scripture, he is not using that metaphor casually, as an extract from the Narrative makes clear with its «fusillade of scriptural quotations and allusions.»

@ Carol... I agree my choice of metaphor used to describe Steve's robotic replies might read as a low blow, but there is a context that he, as well as others, shld be familiar with.

So, as it turns out, much of what I end up doing is using metaphors, analogies, word pictures — like comparing «epistemology» (who even knows what that is besides philosophers?)

(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).

Jesus used agricultural metaphors, Paul quoted Greek poets, and we too need to find ways of expressing... More

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, used the military metaphor with great effect; slum dwellers of nineteenth - century London found the discipline of a soldier to be strong armor against the pull of a former life.

Jesus used agricultural metaphors, Paul quoted Greek poets, and we too need to find ways of expressing gospel truths in the thought language of our audience...

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.

A metaphor is a word or phrase used inappropriately.12 It belongs in one context but is being used in another: the arm of the chair, war as a chess game, God the father.

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

In support of your own disbelief, Jesus himself used metaphors to speak to his flock (the parables).

I try to use the fruits of the spirit metaphor — and if the fruit is dry or maggoty, that's not a good sign.

Using your metaphor of the house burning brings up some interesting connections for me.

I'm also affiliated with the Jewish Renewal movement, and in Renewal, we frequently use Hasidic metaphors — which in turn draw on kabbalistic metaphors — of raising up the sparks of divinity in creation in order to heal creation's brokenness.

Jesus» use of metaphor, in the form of simile and analogy (the parables), is the best attested and surest documented feature of his teaching that we possess.