Sentences with phrase «war metaphors in»

In this way, war metaphors in medicine can invite ways of thinking that may not be scientifically or socially productive.

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This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurWar I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurwar), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

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.

The two cultures, she proposes, are best understood in terms of an «ethics gap,» and here she draws upon and reinforces the important work of sociologist James Davison Hunter, whose writings have done so much to give empirical substance to the culture war metaphor.

If the intellectual life is like this, if struggle is its blood and bone, then one ought to expect those who think rightly about it to delight in and deploy the imagery and metaphors of battle and war to capture its flavor.

Such a shattering metaphor typifies the existentialist, expressionist mood in which the early Barth — and with him the preponderance of post-World War I theology — came to see Jesus.

Now it is time for the metaphor to be exercised in the drug war.

And he notes that there is a contradiction between those metaphors that speak of God's forgiveness and care for Israel and victims and those that tell of divine participation in war and punishment.

In considering the last metaphor, Brueggemann argues, not always convincingly, that for Israel war is conducted to defend and to give life.

8 «The metaphor of a war of nature», Keith Ward writes, «here gives way to a different metaphor: that of a developing emergent whole, with increasingly complex and beautiful co-adaptedness among organic life - forms, and which pictures nature as expressing a continuous growth in harmonious complexity.»

That deep love, that desire to protect and keep our children safe, can cause us to judge others either in response to criticisms, or (to keep with the war metaphor) so that we can «draw first blood.»

Of course, the idea of a «War on Christmas» is terminally silly in a culture saturated with Christmas messaging (as I write this, the radio at the coffeeshop I'm in is tuned to a channel that'll play nothing BUT Christmas songs for the next couple of weeks), but what the heck — martial metaphors work quite well when you want to get folks fired up.

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.

«If applied in a careless manner, war metaphors can delude our sense of what's possible therapeutically, and give false hope to people and caregivers who are suffering,» George said.

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The metaphor for terrorist attack is so front and center it hardly bears mentioning; War of the Worlds is pure popcorn escapism of the highest order if you want it to be, or more, but it's never less than thrilling, thanks in enormous part to the film's magnificent, sternum - rattling sound design, surely another of the film's Oscar - calibrated achievements.

As a thriller its quite nerve wracking and as a metaphor for how innocent Mexican citizens are used as pawns in the drug war between the various gangs and the DEA its effective.

Jolie for her part uses silence as a kind of metaphor for our collective speechlessness in the face of war's horrors.

The final scenes are a tour de force in which the bonfire - strewn streets fill with merrymakers and the exploding fireworks look as dangerous as a war, an apt metaphor for the everyday violence in the characters» lives.

But beyond that, it sounds like the film doesn't bring anything else potentially groundbreaking to the table, offering another metaphor for our society to deal with in relation to war with some decent performances and occasionally beautiful visuals scattered throughout.

The general problem with War is that its metaphors are empty and do not say anything about the characters in the picture.

War for the Planet of the Apes is a bludgeoning film of empty and meaningless metaphors wrapped up in the clothing of presumed depth.

But they also serve as metaphor: Naranjo uses his heroine as a symbolic stand - in for Mexico's citizens, blameless bystanders caught in the cross fire of a billion - dollar range war.

You'll pardon the embroidery metaphor, which comes straight from the movie itself, a darkly absorbing Southern gothic tale set in 1864, during the fraught final days of the Civil War.

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.

In addition to all the fall movies rich in metaphors for Trump, the multiplex is also offering numerous escapes, from the coming - of - age period piece Lady Bird to a new Star Wars to another movie about proud moments in British history, The Darkest Hour (if Dunkirk wasn't enough stiff upper lip for youIn addition to all the fall movies rich in metaphors for Trump, the multiplex is also offering numerous escapes, from the coming - of - age period piece Lady Bird to a new Star Wars to another movie about proud moments in British history, The Darkest Hour (if Dunkirk wasn't enough stiff upper lip for youin metaphors for Trump, the multiplex is also offering numerous escapes, from the coming - of - age period piece Lady Bird to a new Star Wars to another movie about proud moments in British history, The Darkest Hour (if Dunkirk wasn't enough stiff upper lip for youin British history, The Darkest Hour (if Dunkirk wasn't enough stiff upper lip for you).

While a number of approaches are available, they are typically described in contentious terms, with war metaphors pitting the whole language camp against the phonics supporters.

To extend the metaphor, they really only care about the survivors in a war of attrition.

Similarly to Pat Barker in her World War I novels, Magee's descriptions are stripped of metaphor and simile and her dialogue is crisp and vivid whether she is writing an argument between Katherina and her deluded parents or between Peter and his fellow soldiers freezing in the Russian snow.

In what way is the Hearts tournament a metaphor for the Vietnam War?

But the haunting metaphors are never forced, and the intensity of the simple words, on the baseball field and in the war zone, will make readers want to rush to the end and then return to the beginning again to make connections between past and present, friends and enemies.

First up in the metaphor - wars was Pan Macmillan's ebullient digital director Sara Lloyd who chaired the conference.

In which Riddles perfects the self - deprecating metaphor - From «Oh, Well... This is Embarrassing...» during God of War III Week

Juxtaposing images of the First World War memorial in the churchyard with the cranes and girders of contemporary urban development, Emin's personal heartache now becomes a metaphor for the lives fractured by the conflict, the passage of time and for the loss and eradication — as well as survival and perpetuation — of history and memory within the built environment.

Grand in scale, these labyrinthine yet surprisingly intimate works cover the entire wall space, rife with personal narrative, political metaphor, and a myth that emphasizes memory, loss, love, and exile in times of war and peace.

The pedestals, which remained mostly empty, serve as a metaphor, for the artist, of the country's inability for self - reflection during the violence of the Civil War which spanned from the start of Independence in 1975 to 2002.

Reeling in the destruction of war torn Europe, Jean Dubuffet's Volonté de Puissance is a socio - political metaphor of the mentality of Europe after WWII that...

He explained that the «Elegy» paintings, originally a tribute to the republic that died in the Spanish Civil War, were not meant to be political, but rather «general metaphors of the contrast between life and death and their interrelation.»

This example of shunga (a genre of erotic woodblock prints dating back to the 9th Century) is significant not only for its shocking metaphor of victory in war --- it makes plain the sexual dimension of conquest --- but also that it signaled Japan's own imperial desires.

The exhibition includes photographs from two of Griffin's early series» which employ potent metaphors; Copyright, 1978, a reproduction of the persecution of Jesus Christ in his own apartment and London By Night, 1983, which shows the aftermath of a fictitious nuclear attack on London, echoing the fear of the Cold War.

It also featured an entire series of work Lashai developed during the last years of her life, which incorporates animation, music, and narration into paintings, depicting through subtle metaphors chapters of Iran's turbulent history and delivering a foreboding message about a violent future in the region, through a painterly engagement with Goya's «The Disasters of War.»

In his own words, Paglen's artistic project is to create «new metaphors» for the «invisible war» — the weaponization of space, the militarization of the internet, mass surveillance, and counterintelligence efforts by U.S. and foreign governments over the past 15 years, most of which remain classified.

[Response: Jeffrey, you'll be pleased to hear that I use * both * of these metaphors in The Hockey Stick & the Climate Wars.

The first thing I will note is that every scientist in the room should object (and should have objected to) the metaphor of «War on Science».

As long - time readers know, I'm interested in the emergence of popular narratives and memes, everything from the Easter Island eco-cide metaphor to the climate wars and climate / conflict framing.