Sentences with phrase «with metaphors for»

If it has more to do with metaphors for spiritual crises, that, too, seems contemporary.

As filmmakers go he's more Dumas than Joyce; not looking to redefine paradigms of perception so much as spruce up classic frameworks with his own brand of polish, much like I've just done with metaphors for glossy, mainstream filmmaking with this sentence.

He was not impressed with my metaphor for the converted life.

The results obtained in the joint project have added to our understanding of the effect, so that even when it comes to short light pulses — and to stay with the metaphor for the moment — no captain will be taken by surprise by unexpected waves in future.

Quinlan starts with a metaphor for deception or anxiety and makes it her subject matter.

However, when you say «feel that» or «feel like,» unless you're following it up with a metaphor for your emotional state («I feel like a leaf in the wind»), what you're really saying is a thought or an opinion and conveying to your partner that this something that can not be negated because you're wrapping it in a «feeling» rather than a thought.

Not exact matches

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.»

Since my keynote program had been about creating a Menu for Your Life, with many metaphors around cooking, I started thinking about what her sales management recipe should be.

Also, with used car salespeople gone, we'll need a new metaphor for dishonesty.

It's a metaphor for what Kia, a company associated with affordability, is trying to do to consumers» perception of the brand as it expands into the luxury market.

It's a show of incorruptibility — a metaphor for being orderly and transparent with attention to detail.

While common football metaphors like «Don't sit on the sideline» can be useful, your best bet is to focus conversations around your excitement for the annual «Super Bowl Squares,» a betting pool operated by the Super Bowl Square Manager, wherein an employee with the least amount of football knowledge wins the most money.

Stating that sports «are a terrible metaphor for business,» the author concluded that referencing team sports in a corporate leadership context doesn't actually correlate with high performance, team dynamics, talent or success.

Hard to believe a big company would toy with such grim imagery — but apparently it's all a metaphor for Mozilla's battle with Microsoft (MSFT) Internet Explorer, referred to throughout as «Mammon.»

That's the premise of the Jurassic Park movies, of course, but it's also a metaphor for what Comcast - owned (CMCSA) Universal Pictures just did with its dino - franchise.

Despite his penchant for flowery prose and, at times, odd metaphors in his popular monthly investment outlooks, Gross seems to have taken to the new media communication tool, posting a number of tweets in recent months that have even played into rap mogul - style feuds with well - known academics.

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The conventional image of the railway as a national project owes much to the appeal of Pierre Berton's books, which drew on its construction — with all the blood, sweat and scandal that went into it — as a metaphor for nation building, a physical extension of Confederation into western Canada.

Also: Remember a couple weeks back when Wired magazine put Zuckerberg on the cover, with a bandage on his bruised and scratched face — a metaphor for the beating he's been taking over Facebook's missteps?

This picture — snapped of a bald eagle, America's favorite bird, who swooped in on fisherman Bruce Huntley's catch and stole away with it before he could reel it in — is probably some sort of metaphor for American ingenuity or opportunism or something.

Yet that metaphor of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty of primary natural units, each of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a process of mutual actualization and eventual replacement.

the reality is this «solid rock» statue was really cheap foam with some plaster of paris smeared over it... is that a metaphor for the church?

The metaphor of a seed pregnant with possibilities for the growth and development of a new plant is not inappropriate for this provision of a guiding aim.

Later rabbis and theologians tried to deal with their embarrassment in working with this literature by the subterfuge of metaphor: the love in this poetry is «really» the love of God for Israel, or of Christ for the church.

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

(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).

The difference between a metaphor and a model can be expressed in a number of ways, but most simply, a model is a metaphor with «staying power,» that is, a model is a metaphor that has gained sufficient stability and scope so as to present a pattern for relatively comprehensive and coherent explanation.15 The metaphor of God the father is an excellent example of this.

With that sobering introduction, I am grateful to Janet Martin Soskice for her straight - forward, uncomplicated definition of metaphor: «Metaphor is a figure of speech in which one entity or state of affairs is spoken of in terms which are seen as being appropriate to another» (Soskimetaphor: «Metaphor is a figure of speech in which one entity or state of affairs is spoken of in terms which are seen as being appropriate to another» (SoskiMetaphor is a figure of speech in which one entity or state of affairs is spoken of in terms which are seen as being appropriate to another» (Soskice, 96).

Best Title: Ed Cyzewski over at Emerging Mummy's Place with «Men's Ministry for Guys Who Don't Want to Kill Stuff» «Men's ministry lacks metaphors and activities for guys like me.

This is a markedly different basic understanding of the God - world relationship than in the monarch - realm metaphor, for it emphasizes God's willingness to suffer for and with the world, even to the point of personal risk.

The scholar metaphor is useful for worship and Bible study, but books like Andrew Murray's With Christ in the School of Prayer don't have much to say about faithfulness in the workplace.

For me to appear to you as a woman and suggest that you call me Papa is simply to mix metaphors, to help you keep from falling so easily back into your religious conditioning... To reveal myself to you as a very large, white grandfather figure with flowing beard, like Gandalf, would simply reinforce your religious stereotypes, and this weekend is not about reinforcing your religious stereotypes.»

If the characteristic mark of hermeneutical theology is its interpretive stance, especially in regard to texts — both the classic text of the Judeo - Christian tradition (the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament) and the exemplary theologies that build on the classic text — then heuristic theology is also interpretive, for it claims that its successful unconventional metaphors are not only in continuity with the paradigmatic events and their significance expressed in this classic text but are also appropriate expressions of these matters for the present time.

The recurring image of the caput mortuum, the death's head, that, for example, appears with such sarcasm and irony in the treatment of phrenology in the Phenomenology of Spirit, is Hegel's metaphor for the lifeless rigidity of subject - predicate thinking.

It's an imperfect metaphor of course, (and for those who will flood my inbox with emails about relativism, please note that I'm not saying that both the duck and rabbit are equally true; just saying that I see them both in the pattern).

I propose that one theological task is an experimental one with metaphors and models for the relationship between God and the world that will help bring about a theocentric, life - centered, cosmocentric sensibility in place of our anthropocentric one.

The suggestion, however, that God cares about the world as one cares about one's own body, that is, with a high degree of sympathetic concern, does not imply that all is well or the future assured, for with the body metaphor, God is at risk.

What Lynch is driving at with his insistence on the analogical imagination, which finds in the images of limitation «the path to whatever the self is seeking: to insight, or beauty, or, for that matter, to God,» is directly related to what I have called metaphor as method.

This image, radical as it may seem (in light of the dominant metaphor of a king to his realm) for imagining the relationship between God and the world, is a very old one with roots in Stoicism and elliptically in the Hebrew Scriptures.

When I think of the book of Hosea, it helps me to think of his wife being with other men and then him taking her back as a metaphor for God with Israel and how Israel had gone after other gods.

What I do get it the beauty of the vision you have had as you describe here and in your video of the waterfall with the metaphors of the river water fall and lake for Father Son and Spirit and the peace that has accompanied that surpassing understanding.

But we need to note that the images and metaphors that were used in the modern revival of concern for pastoral care, with which I am in deep sympathy, have only recently become concerned about shepherding, and for a time were quite different in character.

Thus, although some of these old soteriological symbols can seem confusing, it can be helpful to look at them once more with an eye to finding more relevant metaphors for ourselves and for communicating the Good News to others today.

Many since Kant have doubted whether God, who gave us language, actually uses language to communicate with uswhether, that is, God's «speaking» to people is a cognitive event for them as my speaking to you would be, or whether this «speaking» is a metaphor for some non-cognitive way in which we are made aware of his presence.

As we make our way through the Book of Hebrews with its glittering and sometimes confusing images of sacrifices and great high priests and its extended metaphor of Jesus as that priest who makes all other priests unnecessary, the following verses come to us with a remarkable clarity and freshness: «Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.»

That is why we are searching beyond them for a metaphor for ministry with such a vision.

What would it mean to go to the scriptures — for example, to the Pauline metaphor of the body and its members — with such contemporary experiences and questions fully present and articulated?

Best Metaphor: Jeff Clarke with «Embracing the Humanity of the Bible: Listening for the Divine through Human Words»

«I think this kind of event with shoes offers a very powerful metaphor both for how we miss the victims who once filled those shoes and also for how we see ourselves wanting to walk in their place, seeking change, so that others don't have to walk this painful journey.»

They are more like a metaphor than a simile, for a metaphor provides «an image with a certain shock to the imagination which directly conveys vision of what is signified.»