Boyle is using the hunt as a metaphor for progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It makes me cringe a little, the way all the books we read in English class describe people’s skin color using food metaphors. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The religious overtones in Morton’s metaphor are well placed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I might wander freely through the house drinking pancake batter from a plastic bucket, but the moment one of my sisters overspilled her bikini, my father was right there to mix his metaphors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, that metaphor is prohibited on today’s flight,” she said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But it’s better to keep in mind the guiding metaphor of classic style: a writer, in conversation with a reader, directs the reader’s gaze to something in the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

This is the part where I’m supposed to use food metaphors to describe everyone’s respective complexions. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It was an even more obvious metaphor for Christians, as it was easy to think of God as a legislator imposing laws on nature and to personify nature as obeying him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It's really more of a metaphor’ And Mark is writing, 'Definitely pick up actual literal snakes and drink actual real poison like rotten grape juice or other Bible-y poison’” “Who knows exactly what he meant?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mrs. O’Toole’s maritime metaphor had given him an idea. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“No. You have to learn how to express your thoughts without any metaphors or flowery words,” she mumbles. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She is irritated and peeved and just plain over it, over every metaphor from storm clouds to raging rivers, and she used to love metaphors. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Thus shielded by madness and metaphor, I boldly told him that I knew of his crime: pouring poison into King Hamlet’s ears. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That supplies him with still other metaphors that can replace metadiscourse, such as moving together or cooperating on a project: The previous section analyzed the source of word sounds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The metaphor, the most common figure of speech, lets us use one image—any image we want!—to conjure up another. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The domesticity in this poem, these kitchens, gardens, ponds...is not a metaphor for the ludicrous war in the South Atlantic in this year?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In American Lit class once, we discussed America as a metaphor tying it into how the country is represented in books, movies, songs. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It is not really about the countryside at all; nature is there purely as a metaphor for feelings, as it was for Wordsworth and his daffodils, Shelley with his skylark and Keats with his nightingale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I can think of several creatures that seem designed for this function, if you will accept a microbestiary, and if you are looking for metaphors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Or is a metaphor a definite category beneath the heading of ‘figure of speech’?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect metaphor for their lives. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Like a metaphor rendered incomprehensible by its ubiquity, there was room enough in what she had left me for endless imaginings, for an infinite set of Margos. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When I visit the local branch of my bank, I don’t think of this vast business as a tree, but ‘branch’ here is a dead metaphor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s a metaphor for adolescence,” my mother piped up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Although she had been raised on Bible verses, she now spoke of God mostly in metaphor: “Spring spells God, and God is Love.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This was only the beginning of Billy’s miseries in the metaphor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A metaphor, or simply a figure of speech?” he says, also frowning. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the union hall the word ‘brother’ became a vague metaphor; with repetition a weak echo of the intimate sound. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Situated, as we were, on the bank of a huge river, the metaphor suggested the prison was a big body of water and we were all in it together. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are examples of metaphors I laughed my socks off. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Too many metaphors and stories wrapped in stories. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was, he said in an interview in 2008, wrong...in using a metaphor that virtually commits one to writing ideologically. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Plato, who believed that “all things are full of gods,” actually used the metaphor of slavery to connect his politics with his cosmology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy- two thousand pounds of explosives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nelson paused for a long time to wipe the ash from his face and puzzle over the metaphor of accessories and outfits. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a big believer in metaphor, Hazel Grace.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Neither man was completely convinced that heaven was anything more than a metaphor. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And I don’t mean “kill” as in “metaphor.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But unlike the early Christians, who had freed themselves to interpret parts of the Old Testament as metaphor, Maimonides was unwilling to Hellenize his religion completely. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Noting my disgust, she adds, “It’s a metaphor. All I’m saying is, he sounds perfect on paper. And he’s older, which is hot.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There beside the hulk of the ruined car, countless miles from anywhere, Pollard was standing in a metaphor for his own life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roughly: the more “rhetorical” it sounds—the more stuffed with extended metaphors, elaborate verbal patterning, and five-dollar words—the higher the style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The car alarm is not a metaphor, but just an unrehearsed annoyance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The metaphors used then may be obscure to us now. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Champollion resisted the idea of hieroglyphs as pictorial metaphors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which isn't really surprising, I suppose; this was also the age of ecclesiastical mazes - which may have served as metaphors for pilgrimages to Jerusalem - such as those at Chartres and Lucca Cathedrals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God, and for hope. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s called poetic license. Something allowed in a story that isn’t so in real life. Like a metaphor or a simile.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“You better,” Maya replied, “or I’ll run over you with a truck. Not a metaphor.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This metaphor leaves behind a single vivid picture. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So is it me or is that the perfect metaphor for race in America right there? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some people are so wild about metaphors that they can’t resist using them in pairs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Grammy likes her metaphors, and I think back to her saying “Joseph is my rock.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A century after Pythagoras’s death, Plato, writing in 380 BC, was captivated by this metaphor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We tell each other this, in fact, when we speak of living languages, and I think we mean something more than an abstract metaphor. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he bring back some metaphor thing he didn’t really understand? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her final humiliation and the triumph of the Aryan hero Parsifal were not very subtly concealed metaphors for what Wagner wanted to happen to German culture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s just some metaphor I’m not totally getting. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sure it’s all some kind of metaphor, but I’m too tired and hungry to figure out what for. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It is a metaphor for dealing with a problem when it is still small and before it grows into something LARGER, Ms. Hardwick says, looking dead at you. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was the hope Dr. Holden had talked about—the grass was a metaphor for his hope. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It has happened before, many times, before color was invented, and the hope of Heaven has always been a metaphor for the achievement of this particular state of grace. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

This seems rather enigmatic on the face of it, but actually I cannot think of a better metaphor for Julian’s personality. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Here, sweat is a metaphor for hard work, but seldom its consequence. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether or not a text is organized to fit into a hierarchical outline, the tree metaphor goes only so far. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The peculiar-looking man was of average height, but of an odd shape: Shadow had heard of men who were barrel-chested before, but had no image to accompany the metaphor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“That is a metaphor. By ‘light,’ Sandwich means ‘life.’ Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I’m filling page after page, making lists of people and foods and places I miss, describing them using metaphors like Mrs. Brown taught us. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The tree, of course, is only a metaphor. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If I measure the volume of a sphere, the language I am using is a dead metaphor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was literal minded, not a man who traded in metaphor or suggestion. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“You would. Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We have fried chicken in common? Do you realize how loaded fried chicken is as a metaphor here?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He might have stood there for a while, considering the cutaway road and the perfect metaphor it was, if a murder of black crows hadn’t shown up, cawing their stupid heads off. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Sun was a metaphor for God, around Whom all else revolves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain was taken with the beauty of the metaphor, and let his silence imply surrender. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The drafting and editing of the Farewell Address in effect became a metaphor for the kind of collective effort Washington was urging on the American people as a whole. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He continues, Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Like grass is a metaphor for God’s greatness or something. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

For someone like Kelsea, the black cloud is the right metaphor. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But as we shall see, coherent discourse also uses devices that differ from the branching of a tree, and our metaphors must expand accordingly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The examples are not so much metaphors or analogies as they are actual instances of the phenomena he is explaining, and they are instances that readers can see with their own eyes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s a metaphor for the whole boarding school experience,” Jerome said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe saying the king must die was like the metaphors Mrs. Brown was always talking about? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

For Lutheran Pietists like Bach, illuminating the Gospel was paramount, as were metaphors of light and transparency. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The clock metaphor is thus used by Descartes to make an epistemological argument about the limits of our understanding, rather than as an analogy as to how the universe actually works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What one is after when farfetching might be described as the intuitive perception of a moral entirety; and thus it tends to find expression not in rational symbols, but in metaphor. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We cannot take the metaphor of a footrace literally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Another is to use the guiding metaphor behind classic style, vision. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The second main reason is that people often talk using metaphors. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not poetry. It’s not metaphor. It’s instructions. We are supposed to go to Margo’s room and unscrew the lock from the door and unscrew the door itself from its jamb.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She rubbed my head, and she went, “You’re the only one of them that uses metaphor.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the metaphors Mrs. Brown was always talking about. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When he discussed the interconnectedness of the rich and poor parts of the world, the dam was his favorite metaphor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It is hardly surprising that a composer like Schubert should be attracted to poetic texts that placed emotions in the relative safety of natural metaphor. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Carrying my boat between bodies of water? I’m not so good with metaphors, dear,” Vivian says, “What’s it supposed to mean?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

So maybe the grass is a metaphor for our equality and our essential connectedness, as Dr. Holden had said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At that age, fairy tales were dark, simple things, their hidden metaphors worn down so that they fit comfortably in a child’s grasping hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

ZZZzzzzz In the hallway after class you see The Mac grinning like he’s just won the lottery, in a neon green T-shirt that says: Similes are like metaphors. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Crazy Cat becomes a metaphor for my situation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Lead them around by the nose; that is a metaphor. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some scholars had believed them to be a kind of picture code, rich in murky metaphor, mostly about eyeballs and wavy lines, beetles, bumblebees and birds—especially birds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s called mixing your metaphors, and there’s more about it at the end of this chapter. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can you think of any other example where color is used as a metaphor to express an idea? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always found this verse, which was a metaphor for the glory of God, to be deeply moving. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Littering brings a $300 fine, even if you use it as a metaphor for finding yourself. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he’s not nodding his head or pushing my hair behind my ear and his grandmother’s ring is sitting on Mother’s velvet sofa like some ridiculous metaphor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was Stephen King’s metaphor for the volcanic physical and emotional changes wrought by puberty in every kid, and how they can explode into crimson disaster. Chronicle: It's Carrie Plus X-Men, With Found Footage 2012-02-02T16:41:05Z

This is an apt metaphor for the activist’s voice. New York’s Sidewalk Prophets Are Heirs of the Artisans of France’s Lascaux Caves 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

"I spoke in metaphor and I shared two ways of looking at things — one was to be hopeful, and one was to feel anger and outrage, which I have personally felt." Singer Madonna defends 'blowing up the White House' remark 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Military metaphors may not be benign, the study found. 'War on cancer' metaphors may do harm, research shows 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Some take the terrible idea, as "You" did, of writing about an entirely different illness — in the case of "You," the measles — and making it all feel like one big metaphor. Are we having fun yet? “Party Down” addresses the pandemic the way few shows have 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Ms. Gustern, who died last month, had a gift for unusual metaphors that made her teachings stick. She Taught New York to Sing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

“It was not a very subtle metaphor on the stupidity of setting up a publishing house,” Testard, 37, recalled recently. How a Tiny British Publisher Became the Home of Nobel Laureates 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

The Worst: The one thing no one should forgive The Bachelor franchise for is their use of transportation and extreme sports as metaphors for relationships. RECAP The Bachelorette Watch: Connecticut Yankees In Andi's Court 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Yet timing and circumstances have rendered its directness, the outright obviousness of its metaphors and messaging, into its greatest strength. ‘The Platform’ Review: An Accidentally Timely Political Allegory 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

He also described the bacteria that are a crucial part of pickling as a metaphor for Slavs and Tatars’ conception of migrants or foreigners: “They’re outside of us, and yet they’re good for us.” These Artists Bring Pickles to the Party 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Thomas's poem can be read as an extended metaphor drawn from such ideas of receptivity. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z

The bone fire in question can be seen as a metaphor for the grief that burns in one's soul. 'Bone Fire': Frontier reliance and human connection 2010-03-19T22:27:00Z

Something is being said about conformism, and about gender roles, but the metaphors don’t get in the way of enjoying the eerie melodrama. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Zombeavers’ and Other Midnight Offerings at Tribeca Festival 2014-04-17T22:08:08Z

Her songs often carried messages of ethical uplift and social criticism, at times veiled in metaphor. Tshala Muana, Congolese Singer With Danceable Messages, Dies at 64 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

There’s an equally queasy undercurrent in “Shattered Glass,” which flogs a glass ceiling metaphor. New Releases From Brad Paisley and Ty Segall 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

“It is a metaphor of femininity but also the representation of a gradual lightening and a link with nature’s elements, filtered down through creativity and imagination.” Giorgio Armani pays tribute to nature at Milan Fashion Week show 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Slight spoiler: It's a decision that's more valuable than Carmy initially thought, and one that makes the viewer realize that those cans of tomatoes serve as a greater metaphor in the series. The real star of FX's "The Bear"? San Marzano tomatoes 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

On screen, karate became something of a metaphor for Japan's mysterious but devastating capabilities, enthralling audiences in films ranging from Showdown in Little Tokyo to the original Karate Kid. The Karate Kid betrays America's fear of China 2010-08-02T08:00:00Z

Ms. Lustig Cohen’s paintings, which blur the boundaries of art and design, serve as helpful metaphors for thinking about and consciously grappling with his legacy rather than ignoring it. Review: Elaine Lustig Cohen’s Paintings Move Into Philip Johnson’s Glass House 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

He still uses a lot of awkward phrases, such as how he wants to right “this U.S. ship of state of trust” — a classic Sestakian Navy-tinged mixed metaphor. Joe Sestak still wants to be senator — so he walked solo across Pennsylvania. 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Until now, I thought that the best metaphor for filmmaking that I’d ever seen in a movie was found in Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low”: throwing bags of money out of a speeding train. The Mesmerizing Chaos of “Uncut Gems” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

But that is a metaphor for this movie; that is what Mikey is all about. Simon Rex on playing a washed-up porn star in "Red Rocket": "He's an aging narcissist " 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

“I wanted to fly with symbols and metaphors and see trees in the shape of flying saucers.” Juan Felipe Herrera of California to Be Next Poet Laureate 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

For Dylan, God is a metaphor for “whatever your preference is for boundaries and guidance, and realization that this is just not about you or these immediate things you’re seeing — there’s a greater power.” Jakob Dylan has always been part cowboy-troubadour, part rabbi 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

When she’s ranting, riffing and soliloquizing, a torrent of metaphor, allusion and alliteration spills from her mouth. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

His trademark Dutch wax is, he says, a metaphor for interdependence and thus, perhaps, a metaphor for city life as well. God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z

In practice, however, that idealized metaphor loses its sparkle. Lana Del Rey, Courtney Love are ships in the night at the Bowl 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

He continued: “What keeps me going is that every new word and metaphor I create is a little muscle in the act of pushing the dictatorship away from our real and imaginative existence.” Chenjerai Hove, Chronicler of Zimbabwean Struggles, Dies at 59 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

“In fact, if you’re looking for a metaphor of modern American life, it doesn’t get more blatant than having your local river catch fire.” Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

King’s plays also make use of imaginative metaphors. The Screening Room: “The Kármán Line” 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Stone sings with Marley before a fantastically awkward Jagger emerges to drawl a litany of medical metaphors, including "no need for anaesthetics, I'm gonna check your chart". New music: SuperHeavy ? Miracle Worker 2011-08-12T14:31:26Z

The film's metaphors cannot communicate themselves to the audience, and when explained after the event, they seem more comical than instructive. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z

A tightrope walk also might be an apt metaphor, or perhaps a loose-wheeled wagon whipping around a winding mountain road with no guardrails. Chuck Berry rocks again following health scare 2011-01-20T14:04:00Z

The opener — a black man talking on a cellphone on an empty suburban street — briskly sets the tone, unsettles the mood and announces Mr. Peele’s way with metaphor. Review: In ‘Get Out,’ Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (Bad Idea!) 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

This is a true story, and that seemed to me a perfect metaphor for advertising’s ongoing tension between authenticity and artifice. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The End of Advertising’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

De Robertis’s prose is most moving when it’s direct and unembellished, but her metaphors can be heavy-handed, as in the overuse of water imagery — emotions, words, hearts, bodies always seem to be drowning, spilling, pouring. A Tale of Five Women 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

In six years of editing this column, I have received so many stories from the baffled and the frustrated that even tsunami metaphors can’t convey the volume. Modern Love: GPS on a Path to the Heart 2011-02-11T01:08:11Z

His metaphor for conducting—building a house to an architect’s plans—reflects his finely calibrated approach to Mozart’s intentions. From refugee to maestro 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

There are no bad metaphors to wince at in this book. 'Heft': longing to shatter the shell of loneliness 2012-02-08T22:16:07Z

This history feels strongly present in the novel's governing metaphors of tradition, transition and inter-generational tension. The Silent House by Orhan Pamuk – review 2012-10-12T21:55:06Z

Is the fictional author Ruth's discovery of the diary a metaphor for how a story is born? Ruth Ozeki: 'This book is about the character creating a novelist' 2013-03-07T09:00:01Z

But Peck is just as much the keeper of the flame of the precision postmodernists like William H. Gass, another Midwesterner who had a way with metaphor and a burning fury against politesse. Review | Even before Twitter, Dale Peck was stirring the pot. He’s at it again with a new book. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Homer's Odyssey, whose protagonist endures years of peril on his way home after the Trojan War, is seen as another metaphor for the ordeal of a nation in its fifth year of recession. Greek crisis: An odyssey seen through ancient myth 2012-06-24T11:41:12Z

That Petri’s metaphor requires no further explication is as meaningful a statement as any about our national predicament, and the funniest one in “Homebound,” a wholesome slice-of-life Web series created by Bethesda’s Round House Theatre. Review | Round House Theatre’s sweet and funny new Web series serves up covid-19-era life in 10-minute slices 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

In that context it, too, becomes a hopeful metaphor to helps the bitter pill of a larger moral go down more smoothly. The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

A black man is humiliated by a white thug: it was the perfect apartheid metaphor, it seemed to us. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z

Dense with resonant metaphors and alive with discomfiting ideas, “The Mirror and the Light” provides a fittingly Shakespearean resolution to Mantel’s magisterial work. Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

In order to lash us to his own sickness-induced metaphors, he writes in as demotic an American idiom as possible: “like” as a filler, “w/r/t.” David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z

But for Kossula, slavery and the Middle Passage are actual memories, rather than history or metaphor, and his pain is immediate and unrelenting. Review | Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, ‘Barracoon,’ finally sees the light of day 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

After a few days at the fair, the metaphor of the exhausted clown is all too apt. Art Basel Miami Beach, Post-Irma, Is Still Swinging 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Her latest work evolves around the subject of light as a metaphor for the emergence of knowledge in the modern era. The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis 2011-03-27T20:31:00Z

It's a typically mordant metaphor; as he makes his exit, he seems to be carrying his own funeral pyre. Der Fensterputzer; Bamboo Blues – review 2012-06-23T23:05:59Z

But these are less cacophonous provocations than metaphors for freedom; even at its strangest, the music has an effect that’s not otherworldly but profoundly human. Music Review: Venturing Into Noise in Search of Melody 2014-02-20T23:23:46Z

And underlying the whole is the metaphor of the seasons as representing human life, with the winter of old age and mortality bringing the piece to its pious conclusion. The Seasons 2010-06-29T21:20:00Z

For Mr Piano, this “transparency” serves the practical needs of a structure dedicated to seeing, and also as a metaphor of inclusion. Town and gown 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Mixed in with snippets of recorded voice are five short acts of dance, in which the gathering clouds of an emotional storm are registered through the metaphors of actual weather. Clod Ensemble: Zero – review 2013-06-05T17:40:43Z

But also, like, ‘God, what a message. What a what a metaphor,’” Bautista said. Zack Snyder blends social commentary into ‘Army of The Dead’ 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

That metaphor in terms of the process of developing a recipe or making change or getting someone elected really resonated for me. On a mission to make America bake again 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Conversation with him quickly soars into rare air: subjectivity and objectivity, metonymy and metaphor. On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

A good line, and one that could serve as a metaphor for the series, “River Cafe Table 4,” which debuts Tuesday on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts and other sites. Getting Intimate With the Celebrity Regulars of River Cafe 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

On the contrary, the metaphors that Olson peddles, like those of most politicians, are primitive equations. Theater Review: Kristoffer Diaz?s Body Slam to the American Dream 2010-05-21T03:52:00Z

Written and directed by Colette Burson, “Permanent” uses hair and hairstyles as a metaphor for self-worth. Review: ‘Permanent,’ About the Hairstyle, Falls Flat 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

This was on a January evening so far below zero each intake of breath felt like … well, similes and metaphors fail me. Whether can be a character outside a film too 2011-02-03T15:10:49Z

Combining reality and metaphor with a great gift for caricature, these works demonstrate unequivocally that America’s “curious institution” was degrading for all concerned. Art Review: ‘A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby’ at the Domino Plant 2014-05-11T20:41:02Z

Siskel: We started to get the visual metaphor of an archeological dig because there was this sense that you had to sift through literally everything, every business card, every note she kept, every receipt. Probing the Mysteries of a Photographer and Her Images 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

But for me, Harris’s metaphor for the ghostly afterlife of America’s peculiar institution remains as theatrically rich — and as hilarious and scalding, in a staging, once again, by Robert O’Hara — as any to date. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

For some bloggers, theatre itself provides a perfect metaphor for the electoral process. Noises off: Politics casts the die on theatre's fate 2010-04-22T16:53:00Z

The result is an apocalyptic metaphor, rich in religious, environmental and political undertones. Apocalyptic horror 'mother!' was conceived in five days, director says 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Those who saw the punch Ray Rice delivered knew it was not a metaphor or a symptom. Ray Rice video shows where we draw line on violence 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

But they’re stuck in other ways, too, and their troubles that evening read like a metaphor for their relationship. One Indelible Scene: When a Woman Takes the Wheel in ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Did anyone miss the morbidly funny metaphor when the Gestapo round up the workers at Otto's factory and the poor guys continue to pile up coffins while waiting to hear from them? Reading group: Is Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin too crude for comfort? 2013-03-20T09:22:00Z

But it also makes a pretty good metaphor for the series itself. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The line arrives in the service of seduction, but functions as an overarching metaphor. New Music by Florence and the Machine and Meshell Ndegeocello 2011-11-07T22:33:38Z

The Mystery Crank is a metaphor for endurance in “Kimmy Schmidt,” and one I’ve heard referred to by a number of its fans. We all have a Mystery Crank: “Kimmy Schmidt” Season 3 and feminism 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

The popularity of this particular metaphor continues to grow beyond the wildest dreams of horror enthusiasts. Americans love zombies because they remind us of the Wild West 2013-02-11T14:15:00Z

Over time, he became something of a black belt, to mix dark-art metaphors. Possessed: Alejandro Jodorowsky and His Tarot de Marseille 2011-11-11T23:31:31Z

But “Big Love” encourages the mixing of cultural references and metaphors. Review: In ‘Big Love,’ Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Is the plot a metaphor for the plight of these comedy stalwarts, neither of whom has starred iu a mainstream hit in four or five years? Richard Corliss Previews the Movies of Summer 2013 2013-05-17T09:45:41Z

This material was brought to life with astonishing physical skill and enchanting theatrical magic, but the sophistication was undermined by simplistic metaphors and pat resolutions. Review: Capturing Childhood’s Wonder in Dance and Mime 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Having spent a lifetime imbuing small things with life-and-death significance, I wasn't surprised that Jeffrey's death quickly festered into a metaphor for both my personal failures and the destruction of America under Donald Trump. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

A wave seemed like a good seaside metaphor for the sudden cresting of galleries here. Eastward, Ho! Even Art Is Leaving for the Hamptons 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t the only time Peck, City Ballet’s resident choreographer, spoke in metaphors while preparing “Copland Dance Episodes,” which premieres on Thursday at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Justin Peck’s New Americana, Set to Copland’s Old 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

There is an obvious metaphor here, but the movie is blind to it, and to everything else that is interesting or true in the story it tries to tell. Movie Review: ?Dr. Seuss? The Lorax,? With Ed Helms and Danny DeVito 2012-03-01T17:57:47Z

With each new season the character development wanes further, and metaphors lose more of their creative veiling. Assimilate us, "Westworld": With humanity this horrible – onscreen and off – just let the robots win 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

“All that stuff is so good for metaphors for life,” she said. Pop: Fiona Apple’s New Album, ‘The Idler Wheel’ 2012-05-30T12:00:00Z

And the lyrics were crafted as carefully as the soundscapes, using space travel and science fiction as metaphors for drug dependency and feeling out-of-step with the world. At last, Failure a success | Concert preview 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

“Narrow Way” rides a nagging blues riff and a galloping beat until the breaking point – a road story that works as sexual metaphor and political commentary. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z

Even if it mixes its metaphors along the way, those metaphors give the movie a welcome bump to the second level of meaning, since, for most of the film, there isn’t even a first. A Quasi-American “Star Trek Beyond” 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

“The Speaker’s Progress,” an elegantly staged satire written and directed by a Kuwaiti playwright, Sulayman al-Bassam, begins with this Orwellian metaphor about the restrictions on free speech in the Arab world. | 'The Speaker?s Progress': ?The Speaker?s Progress? in Brooklyn - Review 2011-10-08T00:55:17Z

Ben E King – The Hermit of Misty Mountain As much about aphorism and metaphor as wild-eyed fantasy but still, there are flying carpets a-plenty. Readers recommend: songs with special guests 2010-10-14T23:01:00Z

City metaphors crept in, too: “Your mouth is a taxi cab,” she would say, “and your molars are the back doors of the taxi cab. And they’re opening, both of them.” She Taught New York to Sing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The literal truth of this triumphant scene is debatable, but as metaphor it is dead on. Perspective | What Meryl Streep and ‘The Post’ can teach us about the power of being a female boss 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

That’s the optimistic idea, at any rate, as well as the bold, obvious metaphor that shapes this seemingly impossible, seductively heartfelt male melodrama. ‘The Mustang’ Review: Where the Wild Things Roam. And Sometimes Break Out. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

It is a good metaphor for how this unruly city is trying to adjust to its slick new clothing. Marseille's £6bn Capital of Culture rebirth 2013-04-01T16:59:40Z

Within the country lilt of On the Ropes, meanwhile, are an individual character's tribulations, veiled autobiography and a heartfelt metaphor for the struggle to survive. Eels: Wonderful, Glorious – review 2013-01-31T21:00:04Z

The buzz surrounding videos like Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” a Vatican-condemned commentary on race and religion, and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” viewed as a metaphor for sexual awakening, reminded viewers to head out and buy albums. How the end of the MTV era led to a music video renaissance 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Authors often weave immigrant narratives into tapestries of symbolic prose, metaphors for long lost homes and the strangeness of new cultures. Can India Be Her Homeland, Even if She’s Never Been There? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

O'Reilly historically doesn't have the openest of minds or the subtlest grip on metaphors. O'Reilly's gay comment: Defamatory or just dumb? 2010-06-04T16:30:00Z

This story was no longer going to be about metaphor. Steven Spielberg Gets Personal 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

And it happened in a way that makes me question Mad Men’s commitment to let its characters drive the story—I can’t resist a car metaphor either—rather than be driven by it. Mad Men Character Study: Cleopatra Joan 2012-05-30T13:07:06Z

Antithesis reaches its climax in the metaphor of the eighth line: "I was love's cradle once, now love's grave right." Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z

His films were politically conscientious, skewering consumerism, racial prejudice and bigotry with their zombie metaphors, and he never disappointed in terms of practising what he preached. Edgar Wright, Alice Lowe, John Landis and Ben Wheatley on zombie king George A Romero 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

Its best-known poems find metaphors for the Northern Irish conflict in acid-preserved Iron Age corpses unearthed from a Danish bog. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

That aloneness can be radical is also the theme of the German writer Ernst Jünger's 1954 pamphlet "The Retreat into the Forest", which uses forest-going as a metaphor for political and cultural dissidence. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z

Certain trips require a little deepening first — the capacity for abstraction and clunky poetic metaphors about existence. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

We are used to thinking about metaphors like “the biological clock” as if they were not metaphors at all, but simply neutral descriptions of facts about the human body. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The house begins to work like a metaphor both for the shaky foundations of their relationships as well as the mind of Edna. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

The nail image is a metaphor; the meat less so. ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Adapts Lawrence Block’s Novel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Me, I’m not taking it as metaphor—it seems possible, if not likely, that Phillips was conducting an actual orchestra of gentle, tolling breezes, corralling the wind in benevolent service. Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

On one level the novel was a homage to Dashiell Hammett, but its supple racial metaphors earned Whitehead comparisons with Ralph Ellison. Interview: Colson Whitehead 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

As Andy Bullock argued two weeks ago, all this lying is actually one big metaphor for the war in Iraq: like the war on drugs, it is a war that cannot be won. The Wire re-up: season five, episode six ? breaking the code 2010-03-23T00:15:00Z

Yet elsewhere the thinness of texture and the virtual eschewal of metaphor can bring the pursuit of the profound uncomfortably close to the rehearsal of the commonplace. Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z

“The note,” Mr. Adès said, “the range, the tessitura, is a metaphor for the ability to transcend these psychological and invisible boundaries that have grown up around them.” At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Former President Barack Obama lent his voice to the cause in a 2013 interview, in which he called the penny a metaphor for the government’s difficulty in getting rid of wasteful services. The penny may be worthless, but let’s keep it anyway 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

The city’s stone walls barely allow the park’s neon lights to peek out — Sadiq’s subtle metaphor for how society constrains the colorful shades of human desire. ‘Joyland’ Review: A Target of Gossip 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

Though the furniture changes, one hulking constant is a racetrack scoreboard that spans the back of the stage, limiting an already tight playing space with a too obvious metaphor. ‘This Space Between Us’ Review: A Do-Gooder Faces a Chorus of Resistance 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

The whole film becomes a metaphor for something very grounded on earth, so you don't need to be an astronaut to identify with that. 'Gravity' gets lift at Comic-Con as director Cuaron leaps into space 2013-07-21T00:05:03Z

There is a notable amount of talk in the book about metaphors; so much so that trips start to feel like textual events as much as physical ones. A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

It's a searing portrait of a world gone mad," says Miller, "with a murderous ruler, certainly a metaphor for Hitler. Music of Remembrance to stage Viktor Ullmann's 'Emperor of Atlantis' 2012-11-15T22:28:03Z

Note the image of the river: the journey across water was always a potent metaphor for Morris, as we'll be reminded in McQueen's setting of those wonderful lines "The Doomed Ship". Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

Cognitive linguists have shown that we make sense of our lives through metaphors: life is a journey; love is war; Syria’s use of chemical weapons is, in Obama’s words, “a game-changer.” CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Explain everything. Make it mean something. Use a lot of those fancy metaphors of yours. Put the whole thing in proper chronological order, not like this mishmash I’m making you.” Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Schmaltzy music and fuzzy pictures give a hard tug at the heartstrings, and footage of Perry missing shots on an empty court is frequently deployed as a superficial visual metaphor for hardship. ‘Aulcie’ Review: Love and Basketball, in Israel 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Her costume was made of glitter in a camo pattern: a neat metaphor for wanting both to be seen and to blend in. At SXSW, Stepping Back to Allow Hopeful Artists to Step Up 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

“The Line” turns a basketball metaphor into reflections for any moment of crisis: “You try to see your future from the line/And you’re clinging to the notion that you’ll be fine.” New Music by Phish, Popcaan and How to Dress Well 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

“His costumes are always metaphors for something,” Mac continued. Machine Dazzle: How Many Ways Can You Say Fabulous? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

The title of this bleak and poignant work refers to a metaphor for Russian life, of being caught between larger forces. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The first is an onstage elevator and the second yet another of the sliding, shape-shifting apertures of Bunny Christie’s set, itself a study in perspective, in keeping with the prevailing metaphor of sight. Review: ‘The Red Barn’ and ‘Blue Heart’ 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

I want to be in the ones that do because I like his story, and he’s good metaphor. Who connects Jewish cooking the world over? The whirlwind named Joan Nathan. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

The album’s snappiest song, “Wristband,” starts as a fictional anecdote and turns into a larger metaphor for privilege. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

“Sweetbitter” is a book that isn’t afraid of metaphor, or of a certain linguistic opulence: there are a number of lyric passages scattered throughout its pages. What it feels like to be a bestseller: Stephanie Danler and 'Sweetbitter' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Lloyd Parry is uncommonly sensitive to all such spirits, and in the tsunami he has found a horrifying metaphor for those subliminal forces that swirl underneath the manicured surfaces of Japan. Waves of Destruction, Physical and Spiritual, Buffet Japan 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

This messy argument comes with correspondingly messy metaphors. Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Le gives us one shot of a hot-air balloon that never meets the sky and another in which a rodent approaches a morsel then backs away: metaphors. ‘Taste’ Review: A Slow, Sensual Hallucination Set in Vietnam 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The meaning Koosil-ja substitutes is clearest in a later string of visual metaphors. Review: Koosil-ja Embraces Revolution in ‘I Am Capitalism’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

A huge number of her bits culminate in vivid metaphors. Jen Kirkman Finds Material in the Single Life in ‘I’m Gonna Die Alone’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

In the end I organized my account of the toad trip around those two metaphors: the rocket and the Big Bang. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

The metaphor shifts to "jades" – old horses urged to recover after a stumble and run on, as these desperate poets "run on", their sounds and syllables like the jingling reigns, their words "dull droppings". Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z

My experience isn’t just about being an older mother, it’s a metaphor for women at 50. The agony and ecstasy of becoming an older mother 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Like those artists, the shape-shifting nature of portraiture becomes a metaphor for changing or erroneous representations of people, and particularly women, from the African diaspora. At the Armory Show, Solo Exhibitions and Colossal Displays 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

It’s a legible, if forced, metaphor for the societal hazards of algorithms and automation. Chinese Artists Redraw Boundaries in ‘Tales of Our Time’ 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

As the skeleton of the ship emerges from the sand, it is a metaphor for the transience of human life, particularly poignant with war looming. "The Dig" on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal — according to an archaeologist 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

Moran’s book contains many such metaphors for the sentence, and at least one for figurative language itself: “Metaphor is how we nail the jelly of reality to the wall.” Want to Learn How to ‘Nail the Jelly of Reality to the Wall’? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

It may be an allegory or metaphor from the mind.” Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z

His tenor sings a convincing version of that frail chairman’s frail banter, bad jokes and opaque metaphors, all duly emulated by his American guests. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z

As a metaphor of the grand showman’s spaced-out antics, it was the perfect conclusion. Review | T.C. Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds. It’s about time he skewered Timothy Leary. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Zooey further seals this lesson with the metaphor of the Fat Lady. 5 life lessons from J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey” 2013-09-12T13:40:00Z

When these characters talk of cancer, it’s a metaphor for harmful, unchecked growth; their scorn for banks is rooted in reckless lending that ruined lives. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

The installation offers itself as a pointedly coercive metaphor about the eternally necessary tension between freedom and constraint. Two Critics Sample the Frieze Art Fair 2014-05-09T23:47:01Z

Watts brings welcome humor to the metaphor, as he mimes picking his way nervously through the clutter with a flashlight, recognizing unloved doodads and forgotten heirlooms. Review | Signature Theatre’s latest show is a ‘Jam’ to savor 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

The house was conceived as a visual metaphor for the old black-walnut trees that surround it. Familiar Ground 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

It's easy enough to find a "social distancing" metaphor here, or an articulation of your desire not to spend your holidays with your Trump-supporting relatives. "Home Alone" itself shows why a Disney+ reboot Is a bad idea 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

“I’m a witch,” Shirley proclaims, and it doesn’t seem like metaphor or hyperbole. ‘Shirley’ Review: A Writer as Scary as Her Stories 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Trailed by TV cameras, he himself went outside the Beacon Theatre during the program: Throwing open the doors felt like an apt metaphor. Critic’s Notebook: Miranda’s big night, and Corden’s larger truths 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

But what struck me was the obvious metaphor now, is this wasn't just an abattoir of animals — this was a sort of slaughterhouse of human dreams. "The original rage was intact": Bob Geldof on The Boomtown Rats' comeback, even during the pandemic 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Diana’s story, and the title’s metaphor, are real — by the mid-20th century, the Old South was greatly diminished. Review | Southern historical fiction gets the soap opera treatment in ‘The Dying of the Light’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

But even more, it’s because we remain conscious of the inadequacy of any simulation of the private lives of these dead, whether via clinical documentary style or airy visual metaphors. ‘Lippy,’ a Chilly Play From Ireland's Dead Centre 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

We don’t see the content of the dreams, only their color and shape, and they serve both as receptacles for the film’s gauzy sense of wide-eyed awe and metaphors for its aspirations. Review: In ‘The BFG,’ a Director and an Actor With Big Shoes 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Lovers’ Choir,” a chamber work in which two voices speaking in unison somehow become a potent metaphor for mutual devotion, followed. Tiago Rodrigues’s Theater of Compassion 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Despite that, I don't think I ever realised the chorus was a metaphor. Six Songs of Me: John Burns of Juan and Only 2012-08-24T08:55:00Z

So many of my memories are connected with moviegoing; some are of being alone in a theater full of people, which is a metaphor for my life, though also a metaphor for being alive. The Moviegoer: Our Critic Misses Sitting in the Dark With You 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

The members of his Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company whirled all around him in restless eddies of largely nonnarrative movement, creating a perfect visual metaphor for Mr. Jones’s creative empire of self. Dance Review: ?Story/Time? by Bill T. Jones at Montclair State - Review 2012-01-22T21:59:44Z

The metaphor of the biological clock sounded less florid than the metaphors that followed, but it evinced the same determinism. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Evening Standard editor Sarah Sands, who was also a judge at the annual awards, said the ceremony became a "metaphor for national hope." Olympic opening ceremony wins UK theatre award 2012-11-26T12:45:36Z

Add two days of heavy rain, and the clouds that hung over Austin began to feel like big, soggy metaphors. SXSW 2015: When a music festival feels like an after-party 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Now that was a filmmaker who knew how to handle his metaphors. For a monster, 'Godzilla' plays it a little too cool 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

It is deaf to irony, metaphor, satire, allegory, provocation, ambiguity, contrariness. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

But some Claremont-watchers take a darker view, saying the institute’s intellectual principles have been, to continue the aviation metaphor, left on the runway. ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

The "little light" seems full of possible metaphor, too. Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z

ON the phone, Mr. Cutler, who had previously compared the current staff of Vogue to an all-star baseball team, refined the metaphor further. Grace Coddington Is Always in Fashion 2012-11-17T11:00:00Z

"Andrew has this ability to toss you into another world, but in a world where you see the metaphors of what's happening today and right now," said Timberlake. Justin Timberlake goes rogue for "In Time" 2011-10-27T16:53:47Z

"Catch the Fair One," written and directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka, is a gripping thriller, and — to use its boxing metaphor — leaves viewers with the experience of having received some real body blows. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Emphasizing such cultural explanations is a bold move, one that goes directly against Susan Sontag’s old admonishments against illness as metaphor. In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

But it’s a metaphor for me in the same way “Pachinko” works as a metaphor, or what I think is a philosophy of life, for so many who have been oppressed, in an unfair society. ‘Pachinko’ author Min Jin Lee on wrapping up trilogy about Korean life 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

The seedy Kit Kat Club is the great escape — and a great metaphor. Putting Out the Broadway Welcome Mat in Song 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Like a metaphor or a marriage, linking two names unites two contexts, two social networks. Brush with the Bard is backdrop for story of powerful early modern woman 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

It's not quite an accurate visual metaphor for his performance but it's uncomfortably close. Frank Ocean – review 2013-07-10T18:34:00Z

If you paint in metaphors, will it have the same punch? Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

This is a film that announces its theme, but then develops it not in a linear way, but through visual poetry, allusion, and metaphor. Terrence Malick, divine director 2013-04-28T17:00:00Z

And in the realm of metaphor, anything can happen: A veteran’s wound may incessantly — and inexplicably — bleed for years, and a slain soldier’s daughter may have the ability to raise the dead. ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

But this was not generally a work that suggested metaphors or anything other than pretty shapes, prettily drawn by attractive dancers. Dance Review: David Parsons at Joyce Theater - Review 2012-01-12T23:40:07Z

At one point, Christle discovers that the Victorians did not actually collect their tears in glass vials, called lachrymatories; nonetheless, the image gives her a metaphor for her process. “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Yes, there probably is a political metaphor in that. ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 2: Dangerous Recount Liaisons 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

The absurd competition — and worry not, we don’t actually get up and play — proves to be a worthy metaphor. Review | You’ve never seen a play quite like Woolly Mammoth’s ‘Underground Railroad Game.’ 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vogt said that the original tweet was particularly apt in describing a type of viral fame in which a person becomes a “human metaphor” for a specific quality like innocence or cuteness. How a Joke Becomes a Meme: The Birth of ‘Milkshake Duck’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The actual story about a struggling soccer team is massively appealing by itself, but the larger metaphor about human potential is what gives the show its magic. Keep on believing in "Ted Lasso" because its second season is richer and sweeter than the first 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

And, based on what Moayed has heard from Iranian friends and family, also as the metaphor he perceived. Arian Moayed Plays Creepy Men for Thoughtful Reasons 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

Then last week, as Bristol boogied  to -- continued metaphor alert! The radical politics of "Dancing With the Stars" 2010-10-05T20:15:00Z

It was not a commodity, not a metaphor from which to extract a lesson about sweetness. Why do we cry – and what can we learn from our tears? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

It explores British-Asian belonging in the context of rising racism and xenophobia, using the metaphor of a breakup. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

There was a metaphor in there somewhere, a visitor felt, about Bushwick. Ambling Through Bushwick Open Studios 2013-06-05T22:28:21Z

And the fiction, or the story aspects of metaphor, they're an approximation of this very real thing that exists in our brains, and not the other way around. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Which does not represent indecisiveness, but a metaphor. Pantone Picks Two Colors of the Year for 2021 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

One song suggests that the splattering style he sometimes painted in was a metaphor for spilled blood. Noticed: Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Artist the Hip-Hop World Can Believe In 2011-08-31T22:48:38Z

I get the feeling that it’s a metaphor for something that will never be finished. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

It’s impossible to talk about smelling without resorting to analogies and metaphors, and “listening” is one that comes up a lot. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

In "catching the London train" – a metaphor for acting on your fantasies, fulfilling your potential – the northern iconoclast becomes uprooted from his family, class, community and city. Tony Harrison's poem V is a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration 2013-02-18T08:00:31Z

The South was her great metaphor, not for place but for the Fall of Man. Review: ‘The Complete Stories,’ by Flannery O’Connor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

I can’t help thinking of two related metaphors for memory, both of which involve the sense of touch: What of the world rubs off on us? Perspective | I had never seen Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper.’ A quick visit left a lasting impression. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

It is freshest when its paranormality flickers with metaphors for a real world haunted by prison systems and spotted with dying small towns and plagued by sensations of outsiderness. “Castle Rock,” Reviewed: A Grab Bag of Stephen King Tropes Is Freshest When It Confronts the Real World 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a great premise: zombies as a metaphor for immigrants or any other despised, ostracized, and endangered minority. “In The Flesh”: a suicidal, gay, post-zombie story 2013-06-06T19:11:00Z

On occasion ugly, often difficult, and utterly real, these quasi-autobiographies feel like high-wire storytelling without the safety net of metaphor or allegory – and with all the danger and immediacy of stakes the comparison implies. Facing facts: how memoir movies are finally showing the ugly truth 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The screenwriter has said in several interviews that the bull riding is meant to be a metaphor representing Woodruff struggling with his disease. The True Story of Dallas Buyers Club 2013-11-08T18:24:22Z

And then all of a sudden – well, the metaphor that comes to mind is a shark tank. Donna Tartt to publish first novel for 11 years 2013-02-13T16:34:51Z

The sideshow acts occasionally serve as their own pertinent metaphors. When a Stroke Felled Her Mother, This Author Ran Away to the Circus 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

On the morning of September 28, 2008, Musk went with his brother and their children to Disneyland, where they rode, in an apt metaphor, the Space Mountain roller coaster. What Makes Elon Musk Different 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

This was another metaphor, to be read in any number of ways, for the brutality and divisiveness that living under an authoritarian regime may induce, but more broadly a general comment on human behavior. Review: Nathan Lane, You’ve Got a Part (This Time) in ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

A producer of educational television and, subsequently, a writer about ancient civilisations, he used his vast store of knowledge to explain by metaphor, analogy and models. Paul Kriwaczek obituary 2011-03-17T19:00:53Z

The metaphor of the sewing-machine needle—unstoppable, up-and-down—takes your breath away, as does the woman’s forceful gesture of pressing her legs apart, so that Bernie can get a better look. Nazi Comb-Overs 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

On further consideration, it was also a metaphor for the novelty of global English culture today. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

Little did I realize when we sat down that this would be the perfect metaphor for the next 88 minutes of our lives. AP critic takes toddler to epic flop `Oogieloves' 2012-09-07T20:25:10Z

Nevertheless, he is clearly having a high old time in Miami, perhaps evidenced by the metaphor he choses to illustrate the difference between Americans celebrating success and British reserve. Dizzee Rascal: 'The music just got bigger and better' 2012-06-21T22:00:01Z

At several points in McGhee’s book, I was reminded of the old saw about “cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face,” though she prefers a less gruesome metaphor — the drained swimming pool. ‘The Sum of Us’ Tallies the Cost of Racism for Everyone 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

And rounding off the ensemble are Zoe Saldana's green-skinned no-nonsense warrior, and a bluish-grey muscleman whose failure to grasp metaphor is comic gold: "Nothing goes over my head; my reflexes are too fast." Guardians of the Galaxy first look review – a whip-smart space romp 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

A native Egyptian who lives and works in Sydney, Armanious is known for his methodically messy installations that game the eye as well as the mind with circular materialities and metaphors. | Hany Armanious 2010-12-06T16:55:00Z

And I think as we emerge into Season 3, that idea that evolves into a metaphor about empathy or sympathy for ourselves is further explored. Jeffrey Wright on ‘The Goldfinch,’ ‘Westworld’ and James Bond 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a horror show — and an apt, brutal metaphor for our offscreen world — with an abandoned nuclear power plant and a derelict amusement park. Review: Wes Anderson’s Bleakly Beautiful ‘Isle of Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

The joke was an inside one: a perverse metaphor for the miseries of genre writers who want to be taken seriously. ‘Big Driver,’ a Stephen King Story, Comes to Lifetime 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s a pep rally, for lack of a better metaphor, or a psychotropic drug,” Mr. Doerries said. In Brooklyn, Hercules’ Battles Inspire Talk on Gun Violence 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

But it also reenacts and reinterprets one of the foundational metaphors of Western rationality, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, in which shadows play a fundamental role. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us

Knowing of Koussevitzky’s keenness to champion American composers in wartime, Price then introduced the melting pot, not as an idealistic metaphor, but as her reality. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Their reds pop against the yellow wall, a striking metaphor for the mythological connection between the Rathores and Surya, the Sun God. ‘Peacock in the Desert’ Review: Courting Opulence in Northwest India 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

Aslan is skeptical of religion, which he sees as “little more than a ‘language’ made up of symbols and metaphors.” Reza Aslan’s ‘God: A Human History’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

They resist metaphor: that feather my sleeping father coughs up, the T-shirt slogan, my lettuce spinner. Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

The prose, lightly sparkling with argumentation and abundant with choice metaphors, is such that “Audience of One” reads like not just an essential American Studies text but as an epic disaster tale. A New Book Argues That Trump Is Television in Human Form 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

She views the border as a metaphor for “collisions, for things that aren’t meant to be together put together.” Between Tijuana and San Diego, an Art Ethos Thrives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Is the final fight scene a metaphor, telling us that the real enemy is always within, and that, to vanquish evil, one must first vanquish oneself? Two Comedy Writers Take “Face/Off” to a New Level of Weirdness 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Elegy” sees the “economics vs. culture” divide as a dead metaphor—a form of manipulation rather than explanation more likely to conceal the truth than to reveal it. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Which is a metaphor for something in fashion, if beholders care to think about it. Warhol & I 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

And if that's not enough, she chucks into this sugary-sounding pop song several expletives, a reference to selling coke and a few lines that turn brilliantly on an explicit sexual metaphor. Nicki Minaj's Super Bass and the year's best summer jams 2011-08-17T16:15:54Z

Maybe it’s a metaphor, too: There are stanchions, there are walls, but sometimes you can walk through them. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

The theatrical production shares the blunt title of the documentary — “Lombardi” — as if any title that stretched for metaphor or cleverness would have been an affront to its subject’s plainspoken oratory. | 'Lombardi': Leadership on the Field Made Him a Legend 2010-12-10T23:30:00Z

She told Entertainment Weekly: “It’s the ultimate metaphor: horrors of adolescence manifesting through these actual monsters. It’s the hardest time of life.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer to be remade 21 years after first episode 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

This thrilling sequence is an apt metaphor for the entire film series: at first a bit clumsy in transferring Rowling's vision into movies, then gaining strength, finding its wing power and soaring in later episodes. Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise 2011-07-10T05:45:00Z

Fusion is an effective visual metaphor for the health of relationships, identity, exploration, and consent. The extraordinary, validating power of "Steven Universe" 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

In keeping with the global warming metaphor, people will continue to ignore the threat of the White Walkers. 'Arya will kill Cersei wearing Jaime’s face': your Game of Thrones predictions 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

“This ice cream is a metaphor,” I said to him. Abortion, a love story 2012-08-25T01:00:00Z

Insanity is not just a metaphor in this case. America’s gun insanity is crazier than you think: Our delusional era of everyday mass shootings — and record low crime rates 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

I tell him that “Dumbo” is well timed for a Trump era, when the circus, clown and elephant-in-the-room metaphors are flying fast and thick. It’s Delightful, It’s Delicious, It’s DeVito 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t require a PhD in comparative literature to see the Newseum’s troubles as a metaphor for the besieged state of the American press. Perspective | The Newseum opened as the journalism industry tanked. No wonder it’s in deep trouble. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

It’s not just the meticulous choice of vocabulary, the metaphors, the memorable similes. Elena Ferrante: A writer’s talent is like a fishing net, catching daily experiences that can educate 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

A house is like a stage set, and every room is a metaphor for those who’ve lived there, filled with signs and messages from the past. Tessa Hadley on the Bonds of Childhood 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The ocean, the exhibition reminds us, became in Shakespeare’s plays both “a literal setting and metaphor for instability.” Exhibition Review: At the Folger, a 200-Year Survey of the Sea 2010-08-18T18:21:00Z

The plan was to make it a “whole John Wick metaphor,” Stahelski said in a phone interview, where the hero beats up people and then gets beaten up and has to start all over again. A John Wick Action Scene, Step by Step 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

My therapist often uses this metaphor: setting a place at the table for depression. Chasing Anthony Bourdain’s “perfect little things”: Kitchen work and what I hungered for 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

First impressions, as they say, are everything, and when attending a party full of writers it's especially important to be aware of the metaphors you're presenting. In defense of Natural Light, the unfairly maligned O.G. light brew 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

Home is even more a metaphor for me now than a real thing. How do you heal after losing a childhood home? In ‘The Yellow House,’ Sarah M. Broom wonders. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Brecht used this as a metaphor for a misguided society. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Put most simply, “All the Way” is a metaphor about democracy, each of us a political creature craving to be heard above the collective din. Bryan Cranston Is Playing Lyndon Johnson on Broadway 2014-02-05T20:10:11Z

For Albery, the gap is precisely the point: nature is a metaphor in Grimes, not the real thing. Peter Grimes on the Beach? Shiver me tenors! 2013-06-12T18:00:01Z

This is a recurring metaphor this season: the lines, whether opaque or completely clear, that separate the living from the undead. The Walking Dead 'Consumed' Recap: Sexual Tension 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

We are back into the potential of messiah metaphors. Dudamel abides 2010-09-16T21:00:00Z

And the artists have chosen to call it “Gloria,” a title that “works across all the different metaphors: religious, military, Olympic and aesthetic,” she said. Inside Art: Athletes to Bring Life to Venice Biennale 2011-03-03T17:52:13Z

But what if the audience infers an entirely different metaphor? My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead 2010-12-03T15:18:00Z

Platform spike heels become an obvious metaphor for relearning how to strut. ‘Strip Down, Rise Up’ Review: An Emotional Spin 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

“The chicken is such a strong metaphor,” said Mr. Vanmechelen, 51, who developed a rapport with the bird at 5, when his uncle gave him chicks and an incubator. Playing Chicken With the Art World 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

On a board of finite resources, it was impossible to succeed without working with your opponents; academics made it a metaphor for nuclear proliferation and then climate change. Perspective | In a world of Monopoly and Risk, the maker of Catan settled for more 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

In any case, doors are a handy metaphor for the mysteries of life and human nature. Theater Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ Full of Dual Natures and Hard Choices 2014-03-02T23:23:31Z

The government’s lack of preparedness was “embarrassing,” he said, before reaching for a metaphor right out of the more heroic story the nation tells about itself. Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

They are a metaphor for a garden bouncing back from major surgery, and for a spring in Washington that has been painfully slow to get going. The vaunted garden at Dumbarton Oaks reopens after some major surgery 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Sermons, hymns and verses of scripture share many techniques with poetry: anaphora, repetition, metaphor, imagery, music. Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

With their complex narratives, poetic metaphors, references to times past, the Victorians appealed to a Postmodernist sensibility. Review: ‘Flaming June’ Arrives in New York, Preceded by Its Reputation 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The performers fall into each other as a metaphor for the ways black women hold each other up. A Performance Artist Testing the Limits of Her Own Endurance 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

It's a metaphor for the way that young people exaggerate. U.K. director Edgar Wright takes on "The World" 2010-08-16T03:19:00Z

It becomes a metaphor for the lives of all our characters, to say that, you know, life is not a straight line. From masculinity to race, Apple's basketball series "Swagger" addresses "so much more than sports" 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z

“You know,” I thought to myself during one of the many circumlocutory and not-particularly-funny sequences in Life After Beth, “this is probably some sort of metaphor about the universal desire to retain one’s youth.” Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

It’s worth pausing a moment over that metaphor to note how indebted it is to Melville and Dickinson and the other Transcendentalists, whose influence Robinson has long welcomed and acknowledged. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The detail that stuck with me from her essay about the inventive Italian chef Massimo Bottura wasn’t a dissection of one of his “dishes as metaphors.” The Cookbook Addict 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Although Mr. Joseph’s play is no polemic against the Iraq war, Tom’s determined pursuit of this glistening lucre resonates as a metaphor for the possibly murky motives behind the American invasion. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Rajiv Joseph?s Play at the Mark Taper Forum 2010-05-14T23:58:00Z

But he didn’t think the speaking-up metaphor of “Fiend,” or the rest of Mr. Schoonmaker’s lineup, was going to heal the city’s wounds tomorrow. In Prospect New Orleans, a Curator Guides 73 Artists Toward Higher Ground 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

To be free as a bird is an empty metaphor when even birds are losing their freedom. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

Descending half notes in the music became metaphors for the wanderer’s exhaustion, rendered like a brief weakening of the knees. Music Review: Gerald Finley and Julius Drake in the ‘Winterreise’ Cycle 2014-02-14T23:02:37Z

As fashion metaphors go, it’s hard to miss. Taylor Swift and the Sparkling Trap of Constant Reinvention 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Thomas Friedman used it as an outlandish, counter-intuitive metaphor in a book title. Save us, Neil DeGrasse Tyson!: The Flat Earth movement is back with a vengeance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

To switch metaphors, the collection carrot also came with a mighty stick. Plans for a new LACMA seem to be aligning, but first some questions 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

And it’s a perfect metaphor, him being this small mouse, this seemingly insignificant figure or individual within this big industry that he wants to break into.” Review: PBS’s ‘Walt Disney’ Explores a Complex Legacy 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

The roots of the Memorial for Peace and Justice lie in the post-utopian 1970s, in contemporary earth works and site-specific installations that combined Minimalist abstraction and scale with a Conceptualist capacity for political metaphor. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

I like the scope for metaphor it affords audiences. Drama in the wings: why theatre in prisons matters 2010-06-25T12:49:00Z

At its core, “Paradise, Nevada” is a moral inquiry into the profit motive, with poker a metaphor for the diminishing returns of a consolidated U.S. economy. Review | ‘Paradise, Nevada’ tries to capture our anxious American essence with a collision course through the gaming industry 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

“It’s a physical metaphor for an emotional condition,” Ms. Tharp said. dance: Tharp Is Back Where the Air Is Rarefied 2010-03-05T21:17:00Z

It uses design metaphors instead of labels, for example, even if this fails when the metaphors are unclear. Shtetl of honour 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

His European-design Theo eyeglasses and protective white plastic hard hat seemed an apt metaphor for the building — a combination of practicality and style. Historic firehouse to hot hotel: Repurposed buildings revel in their colorful pasts 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

I was watching this at start of the sexual-harassment-revelation rockslide, so a metaphor for mankind turned, for me, into a kinetic essay about the entitled persistence of men. The Acrobatic Artwork That Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

It’s a metaphor for consciousness, the art work, or any other ostensibly sealed box of illusory vistas. Kusama Takes On the Infinite With a Sly Wink 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

But the fatalistic protagonist and finned predators of “The Gulf Stream” also serve as a metaphor for the unrelieved obstacles and threats for Black people and especially for Black men, that remain crushingly pertinent today. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

“I just thought, ‘Wow, there is no greater metaphor for the chaos going on in nature,” she said on a video call. In the Wild Tale of ‘Cocaine Bear,’ an Apex Predator Is the True Star 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

And, most compellingly, a profusion of flowers: a lavish visual metaphor for the promise of spring. Spring Fashion, Hand Yourself Bouquets 2014-04-16T21:59:50Z

He warns against misleading metaphors: Selfish genes do not mean selfish individuals. Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Email your idea for a future Clip joint to Clocks – the ticking over of hands or the neon glow of shape-shifting digits – an obvious but surprisingly diverse metaphor. Clip joint: Timepieces 2012-07-18T12:31:00Z

Not so much the large-scale architectural gestures as the details — and what you might think of as the design’s guiding metaphors. Can 11th-hour updates save Renzo Piano's design for troubled Academy Museum? 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

This picture, when whole, is Rushdie’s metaphor for sanity, a thing which, in order to do the work of orienting us within the world, must be preserved in one piece. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z

In a review for the Los Angeles Times, staff writer Carolyn Kellogg praised the novel, which she called "an uber-story, defined by irony and metaphor .... Rarely does such a ruminative novel close with such momentum." Steve Martin joins 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' adaptation 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

This staged emptiness is such a glaring metaphor for the oxymoronic “compassionate conservatism” that a novelist would reject it as too obvious. Paul Ryan’s poverty tourism 2012-10-16T17:05:00Z

There are the physical details – a person growing inside you – which, at the beginning especially, are so unlikely they feel more akin to a metaphor or fable than science. Having kids increases global warming. But don’t blame the parents… 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

He’s a metaphor for England, its injurious colonialism and its dying irrelevance on the world stage. ‘Man on Fire’ review: Salvation through extreme record-breaking 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

One of several metaphors for literary recycling, the handmade pages are sourced from the effluent of hotels frequented by Soviet dignitaries. Why Did Some Cubans Inject Themselves With H.I.V.? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

So away he goes, down to America’s most potent metaphor, its 2,000-mile partisan fault line. A Different Perspective on the Border 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

For the versatile, sometimes inscrutable German sculptor Cosima von Bonin, too, the sea is a metaphor for our own lives, and she brings to our dry environment visitors from the deep. ‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The religious metaphors are abundant; you do not need a doctorate in theology to note the serpent and the tree of life. ‘Raised by Wolves’ Is TV’s Wildest Hallucination 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Perhaps that is a metaphor for Jil Sander’s place in fashion since Mr. Simons took over about five years ago. On the Runway Blog: Jil Sander: Thinking Positive 2011-09-24T17:37:41Z

And though I found the pileup of metaphors oppressive, I have to admit they were eye-opening. Review: In ‘sandblasted,’ Seizing the Day. Also the Nose. 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

That's the fascinating question that will drive this series long after the convoluted storylines and tortured metaphors spell its doom. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 3: Don’t Make Arnold’s Mistake 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

I see in his pictures a challenge to the metaphor of the bride as a dying flower: the layers of exquisite adornment will soon be removed; what is borrowed must be returned. The Beauty and Burden of Being a Nigerian Bride 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

But these inabilities do not exceed the corporeal: physical growth is not a metaphor for emotional growth. Three Billboards' portrayal of dwarfism is reductive and ableist, and I would know | Eva Squire 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Even as the music was pounding and grinding, Mr. Bey was floating — it felt like a metaphor for how to survive traumatic, unpredictable times. For Yasiin Bey, Once Known as Mos Def, a Comeback With the Finish Line in Mind 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

The novel contains teachable comparisons to "Graduation" in its use of the flashing-lights metaphor for hope and desire for wealth and class. Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

The clean prose of chapters such as "Tanks", "Bombs" and "Grozny" is choked by ponderous soliloquies where over-wrought metaphors are stretched beyond breaking point. I Am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev, translated by Anna?Gunin ? review 2011-01-15T00:07:01Z

It is the first of many apocalyptic metaphors. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

When I first passed it on the way in, its “compression” seemed a perfect metaphor for social tension, for the confinement of the past months, for the strained-to-breaking nerves of a society on edge. Perspective | Glenstone opened as a connoisseur’s delight. It’s reopening as an oasis for everyone. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

He told host Matt Lauer that he regrets claiming he had "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA," calling them jokes and metaphors that he never really believed. Charlie Sheen admits he was not "winning" but losing 2011-09-16T18:27:18Z

I think I was probably too young to see it as a metaphor for other things. “Writing about sex may have led me to writing about religion”: Tom Perrotta on theocracies, “The Leftovers” and why “The Scarlet Letter” is a coming-out story 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

How about surprising us and coming up with a brand new metaphor? Review: ‘What We’re Up Against,’ a Sexism Story More Timely Than Ever 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

And I remember it to this day, in part because I found it astonishing that here, at twenty-two or twenty-three, this poet friend of mine seemingly had found, of all things, images … metaphors … her voice. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The framing of these characters as concepts seems to imply a larger metaphor about Blackness that never comes to fruition. Review: ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ Preaches to the Choir 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Everything is revealed, yet somehow the buckling of time induced by subjectivity, madness and metaphor makes it all just as hard to see. Wreaking by James Scudamore – review 2013-07-26T09:00:01Z

When she mentions eggs, that is not just a metaphor. An appreciation of Björk's swan dress, 20 years later 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Now two years sober and married, he “used to think it was some deep metaphor for bar work,” he emailed me. Chartreuse liqueur’s popularity has soared. But how do you market the elixir without offending the monks who make it? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

"There's an easy metaphor of Las Vegas as a manifestation of greed," says Chavkin. The Team: a theatre company who specialise in bursting American bubbles 2013-06-04T18:30:02Z

It’s an apt metaphor for the Native American experience: To be part of a country — enough to fight its wars, as Hanzee has — but never achieve true citizenship. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 8: A Man Without a Country 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Eight hours before polls opened, what possible difference would it have made to hear Wonder’s political metaphors? For all their wattage, the biggest celebrities still couldn’t elect a president 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

THE unknown of what’s inside the Geneva Freeport makes it an ideal metaphor for the art market, much of which is shrouded in mystery. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z

Likewise, while institutions inevitably reflect the society that created and continues to shape them, they can also function as metaphors or microcosms of that society. There's no such thing as a state of the nation play 2011-03-22T16:40:44Z

“There are quite a few overarching metaphors — about things like seeing and invisibility, visions and corporeal being — lurking around the book,” Boris Fishman writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Now that most written English is informal and online, our collective metaphor is shifting to language as a network: fluid, collectively negotiated, constantly altered. Emojis Are Language Too: A Linguist Says Internet-Speak Isn’t Such a Bad Thing 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

“These drinks serve as a metaphor for Roosevelt Island itself,” she said. Views of 3 Boroughs, Complete With Cocktails 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

In sports, Americans have a set of analogies, images, tropes, and conceits, through which we understand ourselves, even when those metaphors, like Obama’s, woefully distort the reality we’re trying to describe. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

Dancing, we are told, was "a potent symbol of modern urban kinesthesia" and "a cultural metaphor for urban flux and syncopated movement". Nights Out by Judith R Walkowitz - review 2012-05-18T08:00:04Z

More generally, Brown Beard’s world-traveling adventures become a metaphor for the Batra ancestors’ crossing oceans to settle in America, pioneering their own trail through an alien and not always receptive environment. Review: A Voyage of Teachable Moments in ‘India Pale Ale’ 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Melville, who fluctuated violently between belief and unbelief, seems to have been terrified by the idea that if God cannot be reached by metaphor, then God is only a metaphor. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

Mr. Collins, another former poet laureate, agreed that Newark was a metaphor for where poetry is now. Urban Beat for Poetry Festival 2010-10-05T22:37:00Z

As the sinuous sentences unfold, aphorism following insight, metaphor converted into syllogism, we realize Proust is as rigorous a thinker as he is fabulist, heir to Descartes, companion to Freud. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z

He’s right, in a way, and in focusing on the origin story of a relationship, he found a resonant metaphor to illustrate and expand his point. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Little voice inside her” is not a metaphor, by the way; Ruth is committing these murders because her unborn baby insists upon it. Pregnant, alone and completely out of her mind: An unlikely serial killer and a pitch-black British comedy 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

There are no moody metaphors in "American Crime," no meandering monologues. ABC's 'American Crime,' USA's 'Dig' up the ante on Thursdays 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

He didn’t care for metaphors: “They replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.” The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Being on third base, and being picked off of third base, became a moral metaphor, based on the famous saying about those who were born there and think they hit a triple. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

At first, Shitemi told me, the architects imagined the building telescoping upward on three sides — “uplifting” was the metaphor, he said -— but the concept proved too costly and multiplied the awkward angles inside. In Harlem, a Playful New Youth Center Is an Instant Landmark 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

It is a nice metaphor for the episode: A bit of a kick and then a smooth warm glow. 'Justified' Series Finale Recap: We Are Gonna End This 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, her art always took a more poetic, expansive approach to questions of politics and society, and made heavy use of metaphor — above all, metaphors of eating and speaking, language and food. Weekend in Los Angeles: That Touch of Brazil 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

On “Perfume do Invisível” she plays with a metaphor of sneaky invisibility and a chord progression that briefly calls Radiohead to mind. Review: Layers in ‘Tropix,’ From Céu 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Nowhere is this metaphor more obvious than Tender, a recipe-finding app modeled on the infamous dating app Tinder, which — depending on whom you ask — is either the future of romance or the downfall of civilization. Tender is Tinder for recipes, but with similarly disappointing choices 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

You can’t move — a metaphor for being held back and not being able to freely engage in the economy. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z

Perhaps there is no better metaphor for growing up and becoming your truest self. Warwick Davis is the real hero of Gen X 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

Without pushing the metaphors too hard, Ms. Ruhl makes jokes both playful and profound about the dysfunctional family of the theater as a microcosm of the larger world. | 'Passion Play': Sarah Ruhl?s Play Within a Play at Irondale Center 2010-05-13T03:53:00Z

"We Bought a Zoo": The title of Cameron Crowe's new movie sounds like a metaphor, but it's not: It's based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, who with his family bought an ailing zoo. 34 movies to watch this season 2011-11-23T19:23:32Z

His struggle against his age was a beautiful contrast — it is a nice metaphor for trying to find something romantic in a world that is very realistic and tough. ArtsBeat: Tribeca: 'Wavumba' and a Legend's Last Shark Hunt 2012-04-24T18:17:12Z

Further mixing metaphors in a way that only Mac can, he added that in reading the “Dallas Buyers Club” script, he knew “we had good medicine” for audiences – a serious subject in an entertaining package. The Carpetbagger: At the Indie Spirits, Oscar Warm-Ups and Also-Ran Quips 2014-03-02T14:47:13Z

This dreamy little fable serves as an excellent metaphor for the cycles of modern art. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z

The shifts and overlays become redolent metaphors of home and displacement. 10 Galleries to Visit Now Around SoHo and TriBeCa 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

As with all of Gibbard's material, the building was used as a metaphor for matters of the heart. Ben Gibbard, solo, delivers magic at the top of the Smith Tower 2012-10-10T17:50:04Z

In a short feature about the "Alpine" on "All Things Considered" on Wednesday, Bychkov explained that he considers the mountain a metaphor for life and our spiritual growth. L.A. Phil and Semyon Bychkov achieve a musical summit with 'Alpine Symphony' 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The alligator handbag – grotesque, fascinating, meaningless, ugly – seemed like an apt metaphor for the entire experience. On the run with my dad 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

The actual plane crash functions as both a necessary plot point and a loose metaphor for the ways in which growing up as a woman can already feel like a catastrophe. ‘Yellowjackets’ Leans in to Savagery 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Sometimes he would force her to ride on his shoulders; he would lurch, terrifyingly, and they would both fall — an apt metaphor for the relationship. The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

The forsaken flora are a ready-made metaphor for the Moldova-born photographer’s own uprooted life. In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Take "The Matrix" series, the sci-fi saga which we now understand, on one level, as a metaphor for an experience of being trans. 2021 was an extraordinary year of making the nonbinary ordinary 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

For Kilomba, the need goes beyond activism to a deeper catharsis: “How can you live in a city where you don’t have symbols and metaphors to elaborate trauma?” Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

“So I went to walk in the mountains, and returned to my garden, a metaphor for a field of emotions and possibilities that had to be explored.” Allow Natalia Lafourcade to Reintroduce Herself 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a good metaphor for his challenge ahead. Trevor Noah, Next ‘Daily Show’ Host,’ Aggressively Sunny in Performance 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

The spectacles of our culture wars can certainly feel laborious, so Badu’s theory makes for an enticing metaphor. Erykah Badu Delivers 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

In many ways that’s a metaphor for community, for the call and response of African music. Finding Depth in Fela?s Women 2009-12-17T15:17:00Z

Rear of the year has become famous mostly for its trashy-fabulous photocalls, which are a sort of visual metaphor for why Britain no longer occupies a position of prestige on the international stage. Behind the times? The strange, sad story of rear of the year 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

The movie has long been recognized as a metaphor for filmmaking. Never Given a Close Look to Hitchcock? Start Here 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Though Limon is modest about his brainchild, he admits it is a metaphor of sorts. Shakespeare: Stratford. London. Gda?sk? 2011-04-04T20:46:01Z

Finding sporting metaphors in “Love’s Labor’s Lost” — in which talk of competitive games abounds — is a simpler task, and this version sometimes belabors the obvious. | 'Love?s Labor?s Lost': ?Love?s Labor?s Lost? at Public Theater - Review 2011-11-01T02:01:01Z

Still, to keep this metaphor going, if I wanted an Oreo, I would've bought a box of Oreos. "Loki" is an enjoyable, aesthetic romp that feels smaller than the God of Mischief deserves 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

K. has recently lost his wife to cancer, and the trauma of her death has stripped away his understanding of metaphor, his acceptance of imprecision, his tolerance for deception. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Come the encore of the dazzling rhythmic blowout Two Steps, Twice, he's clambering to the highest reaches of a speaker stack, in what could almost be a visual metaphor for Foals' determined career ascent. Foals – review 2013-03-06T18:11:08Z

Eventually, they return; as the video endlessly loops, it offers a haunting metaphor for the unknowable boundary between the quick and the dead. Art Review: At the Rubin Museum, ?Remember That You Will Die? 2010-05-06T20:57:00Z

But as suspended networks, spider webs are also metaphors for Mr. Saraceno’s broader body of work, which includes floating sculptures, interactive installations, community projects and even experiments with solar-powered human flight. With Spiders and Space Dust, Tomás Saraceno Takes Off 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

That’s a pretty good a metaphor for the blissful achievement of this show. ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

In a way, it’s a metaphor for disappearing or absence; as a physical exercise, it’s a nearly impossible feat. Coming Full Circle After a Pause 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

As if to present us with a knowing metaphor for this cover-up, SJP is carrying a shawl that billows disguisingly around the bodies of her colleagues, blurring their outlines. Sex and the City 2: poster secrets 2010-05-03T18:30:00Z

“Consumed” is a metaphor in this case, but sometimes it feels almost literal, as if our country and its public discourse had been eaten by alien invaders or a viral epidemic. Salon’s Trump-free Tuesday: For one day, we won’t publish his name or his picture 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

To know Candy Montgomery's case is to recognize the layers of obvious metaphor and subtler ones in this morality play. Review: Here's the true crime of Hulu's "Candy" 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

The language he used is venomously over-the-top and, like every Champion screed I’ve ever read, contorted with labored metaphors of bodily disgust and humiliation. “He didn’t care if he destroyed himself as long as he hurt you”: The sad, disturbing case of Ed Champion 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Both Epictetus, a former slave whose name means “owned,” and Seneca used the metaphor with an intent to startle. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

If I may pursue the culinary metaphor, and supplement it with a different comparison: “Allied,” while neither haute cuisine or haute couture, is like an expertly tailored suit or a properly cooked classic dish. Review: ‘Allied’ Uncorks a Favorite Vintage, and Infuses It 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

He makes other dancers behave pigeonishly, sustains pigeon behavior as a metaphor and turns comedy into deeply affecting pathos. Review: ‘The Two Pigeons,’ Frederick Ashton’s Look at Love 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Melding an intense music with the transformative power of metaphor, its incantatory poems delved deeper into death, despair, disappearance and dismal weather, with Baudelaire as their presiding spirit. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z

The litter on the streets as well as the dinginess and decay inside the buildings can be chalked up to an emphasis on realism as well as visual metaphor. The dirt on "The Deuce," David Simon's next great HBO drama 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

What do you think the songwriters intended the banana metaphor to represent? Conor Maynard: 'I wanted to prove I'm not Bieber 2.0' 2012-10-10T13:10:00Z

That said, there would appear to be some metaphor mixing going on. New band of the day – Zebra Katz (No 1,338) 2012-08-24T17:02:24Z

And the more they assert themselves, the more the house becomes a metaphor for the country, a battleground over right of ownership. Review | Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave the World Behind’ is a brilliant, suspenseful examination of race and class 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

“It was like going from zero to 100,” Mintz said, or, to mix religious metaphors, “like Athena springing from the head of Zeus.” Oldest Nearly Complete Hebrew Bible Heads to Auction 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

The writing is full of metaphors and soulful musings, but with the exception of a little repetition, it’s not indulgent. | 'White Woman Street': Sebastian Barry?s Play at Irish Repertory Theater 2010-05-31T22:33:00Z

The opening is a metaphor for the series, which is part tutorial, part autobiographical video essay. Review: ‘Painting With John’ Teaches the Art of Living 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

That's because edge, while an aesthetic and a genre and a correlative like noir, is also a metaphor for the world in which many Americans feel they live. A race to the finish in the age of edge 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

No, he stands like a statue, bloviating in verse about her suffering, piling up pretty metaphor upon classical allusion for what seems like an eternity. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z

The tilted bar at Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon on Oakland’s waterfront is the perfect metaphor for that unshakeable Oakland spirit. A guide to Oakland’s rich history and resilience, from a waterfront saloon to the shores of Lake Merritt 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

As the scholars Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang write, "decolonization is not a metaphor." Is it possible to decolonize the wine industry? 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

There's a weaponized virus of some sort that leaves gay men covered in sores and pustules that may or may not be a metaphor for AIDS. "AHS: NYC" has too many villains 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Although it lacks a big hungry fish, the guiding metaphor is also the stuff of science fiction. Review: ‘We Come as Friends’ Explores Potential Exploitation of South Sudan 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Hence the necessity for metaphor, for pungent, highly precise language: to jolt the reader into feeling herself. A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

And his response to Greek tragedy's Orestes story, The Flies, uses the hero's return to a plague-ridden Argos as a potent metaphor for France under German occupation. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z

A feeling is as likely to be described as enacted, and Ms. Mitchell develops her larger themes mostly through metaphor. Review: The Metamorphosis of ‘Hadestown,’ From Cool to Gorgeous 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

She was starting to say something about metaphors, metaphors being also real, which didn’t interest him. “An Evening with Joseph Conrad” 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Gene Roddenberry was trying to use science fiction as a metaphor for the issues of the day.” Spock: Half-Vulcan. Half-Human. All Outsider Role Model. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

She throws open a door, and water gushes forth—an apt metaphor for the flood of emotions that her question, and its implied answer, unleashes. “Grief sedated by orgasm, orgasm heightened by grief”: Beyoncé, “Lemonade” and the new reality of infidelity 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Since Aristotle, characters with disabilities have appeared in western drama and impairment has long been used in fiction as a metaphor for mortality, evil, pity – the human condition. Left out: the authors who know disability from inside 2013-07-11T10:55:47Z

The novel’s images are contorted, its metaphors removed from the physical world. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

A metaphor of maternal instincts drives Hickson’s plot, and Eaton’s forceful, fretful May is a kaleidoscope of survival instincts as the story hurtles across generations. Review | The British hit ‘Oil’ strikes a vein in its U.S. debut at Olney 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Or, same point, different metaphor: The Republicans are Lucy with the football; the Democrats are Charlie Brown. Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

More than 50 years after the play was first produced, it is a metaphor that still cuts deep. Backstage race issues in 'Trouble' still have bite 2011-02-16T22:53:58Z

I actually think that the shared journey of the characters—of the collective life they made on the island—is a metaphor for the show itself. The Existential Nature of 'Lost' 2010-05-24T19:32:00Z

Perhaps her shadow is a metaphor for the fate of that annoying Austro-Hungarian nobility — always tagging along, unwanted and uninvited. What the Shadow Knows: Picture Books on Runaway Reflections 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

A metaphor for Covid or just a sign of imaginative exhaustion? ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Review: Extinction Rebellion 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

There are a lot of very obvious metaphors in this section with Eastman, such as the cell, which has a door that was never really locked. The Walking Dead: season six, episode four – Here’s Not Here 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

And it’s my column, so I can mix whatever metaphors I want. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A host of problems for this immature couple 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

The song uses a series of culinary metaphors to describe what is on Perry’s menu. Katy Perry's Christian parents find her cherry pie hard to swallow 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

"Stranger Things" has always been the kids vs. adults, the darkest metaphor for childhood as children fight their demons alone and disbelieved. "Stranger Things 5" should go full "Jurassic" 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

In truth, Owen and Reeves were the leads, playing a brother and sister fatally attracted to each other, and whose messy relationship functions as a metaphor for the murky morals of late Thatcherite Britain. Alan Rickman: 10 key performances 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

You don’t get metaphors much more self-evident than that. My Family Celebrates All the Holidays 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

Two artists allude to personal disasters, perhaps as metaphors for humanity’s overreach and failure. Review | In the galleries: Two outdoor exhibits where sculptures take vegetal forms 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

As Ms. Ching’s taste in metaphor is not exactly subtle, they also care for a wounded bird. Review: ‘Nomad Motel,’ a Play With Vacancies 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

He’s often one of the first writers who awaken students to the enthralling possibilities of storytelling and the use of fantastical metaphors to describe everyday human life. An Appraisal: Ray Bradbury, Who Made Science Fiction Respectable 2012-06-07T02:58:01Z

His suspended state is a metaphor for the state of waiting that all Syrians share, whether inside the country or abroad and regardless of their political views, the director said. In Beirut, play about Syria's war gets as close to home as it can 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

So it's tempting to see Mrs. Hanson's situation not just as a reflection on the plight of female smokers in the 30's but as a metaphor for alcohol dependence. ArtsBeat: A ‘Fantastic’ Fitzgerald Story, Resurrected in The New Yorker 2012-07-31T20:35:58Z

A phoropter, the device optometrists use to determine a patient’s prescription, hangs at eye level near the gallery entrance, at once a metaphor for art and art itself. Ablaze With Art: Thriving Galleries in Lower Manhattan 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

You might think of this unsettling and imaginative production as a sort of perversely animated mixtape — a metaphor confirmed by the presence of a giant reel-to-reel recorder on the back wall of the set. Review: Hungarians Bare Their Dark Side in ‘Our Secrets’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The doorknob, a conventional bit of domestic hardware, becomes a mysterious symbol of imaginative liberation — a metaphor for opening a door between interior and exterior worlds. 'Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective' downplays the painter's key early works 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The farm, which he cannot successfully manage, is a metaphor for an unruly inner life. Bertolucci’s ‘Me and You,’ About a Struggling Adolescent 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

In some cases, bloggers noted, the show reflected simmering tensions in the city’s young creative quarters, using locations as a metaphor. Noticed: ‘Girls’ Fans Interact With the Show’s Setting 2012-06-22T20:45:19Z

"The chains stand in as a sort of metaphor for attachment or connection — links," Weitz says. Julie Weitz's 'Touch Museum' tweaks time and space 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

May 12 Glamour on the French Riviera Cannes is a metaphor for glamour. Versace and Kane: An Odd Mix That Works 2010-05-21T02:08:00Z

Those brief glimpses into Sullivan’s world, at times seeking flashes of beauty in his struggle, dissipate into a mist of gripping metaphors that grow more resonant with each play. Sub Pop rapper Porter Ray breaks out of personal, creative lull with vivid new album 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Or maybe boxing is the wrong metaphor altogether. Review: In Republican Debate, CNN Throws Candidates Into Ring 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

So Rosie was really mad at her parents and ready to run away to go see the butterflies in California — that’s not a metaphor — but she wanted to say good-bye to Seattle before she did. “The Killing”: Who killed Rosie Larsen? We’ll finally learn 2012-06-14T15:25:00Z

With its insistent drumbeat of ideas and images, the staging proved both fascinating and overwhelming — a fitting metaphor for the deadline driven, round-the-clock digital clamor of modern society. Review: In ‘Refuse the Hour,’ Exploring Temporal Extremes 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

The Indians, cowboys, bears and buffalo are metaphors for psychological energies and possibilities that modern civilization must keep in check if people are to function properly in its market-based system. Art Review: ‘The American West in Bronze’ at the Met 2013-12-19T22:56:12Z

“Fargo” has supported a fancy metaphor for Gloria’s invisibility by having automatic doors, cellphones and bathroom censors not recognize her presence. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 9: ‘You Think the World Is Something’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

The postwar Germans were fond of animal metaphors. Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

Polish artists discovered the metaphor of hypermarket as church, consumption as religion. Poland's artists now speak to the world 2011-04-04T21:00:00Z

She also plays with metaphor as a literary construct, along with other tropes like transitions, dialogue and “economy of form.” Review | Zadie Smith’s debut short-story collection is a dazzling experiment in form and genre 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, it's entirely possible a person is just grasping clumsily for the right metaphor, and chokes. The NFL "slave" comment that won't go away 2011-03-16T15:30:00Z

The image presents a ham-handed metaphor, and it’s indicative of the lack of imagination that hampers the literal-minded drama. ‘Lorelei’ Review: A Rural Melodrama, Lost at Sea 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

“A metaphor,” explains Ward Farnsworth, “tries to create a little event in the mind of the reader — a mental picture, a surprise, a new idea, or all these at once.” What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Are the invading aliens a metaphor for the original settlers, who butchered the Native Americans and forced them off their land? Call for ammo: post your Cowboys and Aliens questions here 2011-08-10T13:16:30Z

The final products resemble kitschy, post-apocalyptic illustrations and serve as metaphors for environmental degradation and the near extinction of analog photography. Art Review: ‘What Is a Photograph?’ Opens at the I.C.P. 2014-01-30T23:57:35Z

What was originally the mayor’s office, on the ground floor, has a circular window, offering a metaphor for transparency and also, Mr. Moriyama joked, providing easy access to disgruntled citizens. Raymond Moriyama, Designer of Humane Public Spaces, Dies at 93 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

Holland, Holmes inaugurated the metaphor of the living Constitution. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

"My place doesn't look that great anymore. I'm so ashamed of my space. You're going to come and see my mess, and the mess is a metaphor." The author of "The Dinner Party Project" on the easy secrets of being a great host 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

While Sorescu’s language, in “On the Threshold of Winter,” was rich in metaphor, Ms. O’Reilly expressed her fears, hopes and frustrations with quotidian directness. Cancer Haunts a Composer’s Life and Work 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Adams read the dance as a metaphor: Sometimes you can’t see a path, he said. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

The images lay bare the frailty of the dollhouse she had built, and are a fitting metaphor for art’s inherent fragility. The many ways art goes missing 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

As she tries to defuse a lovers’ quarrel by recognizing differences — “You speak in numbers/I sing in metaphor” — she insists “I’m not trying to simplify you.” Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

One senses, here, some clever metaphors for the death of print and the slippery quality of its replacement. Art in Review: CARTER MULL: ?The Day?s Specific Dreams? 2011-05-12T21:00:18Z

The dichotomy of Herschel's forward momentum and Ben's stagnation works as a metaphor for the uneven pacing of much of the film. In the zany "American Pickle," Seth Rogen gives a strong dual performance to explore Jewish identity 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

In one respect the decaying house is a metaphor for urban America, for the ghettos of Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago: phantoms of the palatial African-American meccas they once were. ‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

About a year before, Dud sustained a snake bite on his right ankle—an injury that ended his surfing career, never quite healed, and now throbs like an inflamed metaphor. “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

This intellectual softness made the chrysalis metaphor itself seem overdone; the pains of rebirth are sacrificed for ease and popularity. Darwin Center at the Natural History of Museum: London Museum Boldly Spreads Its Wings 2010-04-07T22:49:00Z

Using an animal metaphor embraced by Breitbart to symbolize its relentlessness, Boyle added, “The honey badgers are on the loose again, and hungry.” Breitbart looks for a revival. It may come through war with White House advisers. 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Is that a metaphor for Tarantino's own shooting? Django Unchained – review 2013-01-17T15:29:01Z

If I like art, you’re going to work with me and use metaphors that are related to art. Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

“The idea that tree bark can be a metaphor for an experience of skin is one of the driving themes in the work,” said Alex Gartenfeld, artistic director of the ICA. Hugh Hayden, Surrealist Sculptor, Addresses the Education Debate 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bittman, if you want to promote everyday cooking, dispense with the fake physics metaphors. When Cooking, Invest Time. Or Work. Not Both. 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

That is a metaphor for the life that they had led. Walton Goggins on the Series Finale of Justified and the Fate of Boyd Crowder 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Films such as “Free Solo” work as fascinating visual metaphors because they speak to something universal about the crazy undeniability of desire that manifests in the human spirit. Smart Watch: Killer Mike and Kal Penn explain it all in In "Trigger Warning" and "This Giant Beast 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

“What you are experiencing is just a metaphor.” Review: In ‘Madeline’s Madeline,’ Hazy Boundaries Between Life and Art 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

In “Horse,” though, Lexington is ennobled by art and science, and roars back from obscurity to achieve the high status of metaphor. In ‘Horse,’ Geraldine Brooks Sets a Consideration of Race at the Track 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

The feline’s shift may contain a cultural metaphor: in Finland, Statovci told me, “cats are domesticated, whereas in Kosovo they are seen as dirty.” A Life Altered by War and Transmuted Into Fiction 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

In the third section, “The Bird Song,” Ms. Sarukkai translated into dance a poem about a bird, a metaphor for the spiritual journey of pilgrims in the sacred city of Benares. Dance Review: Malavika Sarukkai at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-11-18T23:04:26Z

Here, you may recall where you began: with abstractions by Still and Newman that read as metaphors of spiritual immanence. Art Review: ‘Re-View: Onnasch Collection’ Is a Postwar Journey 2014-02-20T23:25:13Z

“We use the metaphor of cloud-computing, to find the right resources for the job at a given moment,” Mr. Sorgatz said. Up Close: A New-Media Mogul and Social Butterfly 2010-07-14T18:45:00Z

The over-arching message: Gender is a mood, a metaphor, an anachronism. Spring 2016 is all about lacy shirts, floral prints, silky fabrics — for men. Hey, why not? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

"Bwowff!" soothes her thickset confidante, jowls swinging approvingly at her choice of metaphor. With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses 2011-03-05T00:07:26Z

This sounds more interesting than what transpires, partly because Abigail and her Asian friend’s own “forest” is filled with overburdened metaphors and quivering emotions, quirks and tics and even regulation Malick-like twirling. Movie Review: ‘Abigail Harm’ Stars Amanda Plummer as a Lonely Woman 2013-08-29T22:55:36Z

I feel as though there's some metaphor here, right? The one simple tip that made my homemade focaccia instantly better 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

His preferred metaphor for the condition of the poor is “the rooster coop.” ‘The White Tiger’ Review: Don’t Call Him a Slumdog 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

There’s a metaphor in there, if anyone cares to dig it up. Finally, the Fall 2018 Fashion Finale 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The result is an apocalyptic metaphor, rich in religious, environmental and political undertones. Apocalyptic horror 'mother!' was conceived in five days, director says 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

It can be interpreted as a crude metaphor for Western imperialism, but it is also a bit of a prank because neither the Roman letters nor the Chinese characters form real words. After Guggenheim removes animal-related pieces from 'Art and China,' what's left? More questions 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

The place never quite feels like home, and the unpredictability of island life becomes a metaphor for fault lines between husband, wife and the different worlds they belong to. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

And the horror genre is a particularly fruitful source of such metaphors. When bloody horror movies are actually about . . . politics 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

It requires a sense of style as well as a sense of metaphor, a sense of abstraction, of the conjuring of life and the realization of solid ground through perfectly chosen touches. In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Equally, the metaphor also describes the experience of the upwardly mobile who, very often, have the wind against them. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

But, for all that, he is brilliant at capturing the existential emotion for which the title of “The Kites” is an obvious metaphor — sky-bound yet tethered by that string. Underneath Romain Gary’s Many Masks 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Another one of these “perfect metaphors” first brought Greenfield into Marcos’s orbit and began the project that would expand in scope and ambition to become The Kingmaker. 'She's an unreliable narrator': Lauren Greenfield on her Imelda Marcos documentary 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

When Moonee introduces a new friend to her secret hideaway — an uprooted, yet still living, tree — Moonee describes it in a way that offers a metaphor for her own survival instincts: The 10 best lines from movies in 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

It’s beautiful and physically daring but there’s a metaphor, too. ‘If you hate heights, you won’t be comfortable watching’: Robert Zemeckis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on high-wire drama The Walk 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The film doesn’t have to rev too hard to get mileage out of the idea of the car as a metaphor for America. Wheel life: the strange power of films set inside cars 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

To extend the college metaphor, they’re the Cliff’s Notes of Community. TV Tonight: Community Is Back. Or Is It? 2013-02-07T13:00:15Z

“More attention,” was her unusually succinct reply, though she immediately fleshed it out with a metaphor. Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z

The renovation functions as a slightly obvious metaphor for the resurrection of difficult and complicated memories. The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna – review 2013-04-21T08:00:02Z

I think of the aptness of the fire hydrant as a metaphor for dousing our inflamed national discourse. The Sub-Gatsby Phantasmagoria of Anthony Scaramucci’s Book Party 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

But on July 22, I saw a metaphor in a video on Twitter, and it’s cheesy, but I took it as a sign. A Season of Grief and Release: 5 Months of the Virus in New York City 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

I put my parents through laborious conversations and countless clumsy metaphors, trying to get them to see what I saw so clearly. Jesus never gave Christmas porn 2013-12-23T01:00:00Z

Figures of speech and wordplay rarely survive translation, but Miranda encouraged the translators to come up with their own metaphors. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Antarctica was a metaphor for "an alternate and better world," in contrast to the Arctic, which she viewed with prejudice as "the complicated, life-infested North," she recalls in her new book. 'The Magnetic North': Sara Wheeler on the Arctic, a fragile, 'life-infested' landscape 2011-02-04T20:54:03Z

There was a time when that metaphor was treated as at least somewhat expendable; in deference to singers’ stamina, Wagner’s longest disquisition on the philosophical metaphor, in Act II, was traditionally cut. Review: A ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Plays Out in Shadows and Light 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

If you suspect that there will be a sex-as-buffet metaphor at some point, you will be right. Review: R. Kelly’s New Album, ‘The Buffet,’ Offers Sex and Sentiment 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it's also a metaphor about the fusion of body and mind – a central concern for Phillipson, and for contemporary philosophy. Poem of the week: Relational Epistemology by Heather Phillipson 2013-05-07T10:35:31Z

Jones dives slightly awkwardly into the strange otherworldliness of the original story, drawing extravagantly on metaphor to capture its fantastical spirit. See How They Run by Lloyd Jones – review 2012-11-20T14:08:01Z

This is a moment in which playwrights of color are shedding the curtain of metaphor and opening stages to plainer talk about America’s racial failures. Review | Don’t believe it if they claim ‘What to Send Up When It Goes Down’ isn’t for you. It is. 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

In many ways, the relationship at the center of “The Patient” is a metaphor for both the lengths Jews will go to extend empathy toward their oppressors and for the existential toll that takes. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

“The ships leaving the river,” he wrote, “would in hindsight become a metaphor for my own meandering life, once out in the world never to return.” Sting, the tireless troubadour

His words are impressionistic metaphors: “If that is how it is / I don’t want to be a star / Or a stone on the shore.” James Blake Seduces on Overgrown 2013-04-11T11:00:18Z

But the metaphor of democracy is false regarding culture. Nice Museum. Where’s the Art? 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

This is where Godzilla comes into play as a force for balance, as well as a metaphor for the damage we are causing our planet. "Godzilla: King of the Monsters": Awesome monsters in epic fights 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

This metaphor of an energy that is whole despite being spread across a gap or fissure is the essence of the work’s power. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Maybe an understanding that the metaphors are the same. Nathan Englander Channels his Inner John le Carré 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

The metaphor ignores the real predicament in segregated neighborhoods and dismisses residents as mere anonymous war casualties. We are not Chiraq: Yes, Chicago has too many murders, but labeling us with terms like “war zone,” “Chiraq” and “urban terrorism” doesn’t help 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

"My original story was a metaphor for how man's place in the world was diminishing," Matheson told the Hollywood Reporter. The Shrinking Man set for big-screen comeback in modern reboot 2013-02-14T15:41:31Z

The whole thing is a metaphor about the seeming futility of fighting industrial capitalism and impending environmental doom, but it is also: a hilarious romp! A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Its real value, like most art, is in the deeper meaning of its metaphors. Science fiction's five best guides to the present 2013-07-26T09:59:29Z

Again, no poetic language, no metaphor, just the unacceptable reality he has no choice but to accept. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Other lessons from this podcast The cow birth in season two can be seen as an agricultural metaphor for the military’s response to Bowe Bergdahl’s disappearance; it’s almost impossible to map a timeline via audio. There's a search for a fifth meat – and 19 other things podcasts taught us in 2016 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Whether this is an unfamiliar Spanish idiom or simply a metaphor that appeals to him I am not sure, but I think it translates as "I have a cold." A "Biutiful" chat with Javier Bardem 2010-12-30T00:01:00Z

The photos are in a corrupted state, aged and bleached, providing a visual metaphor for the passing of glory and the fading of pomp. Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard; The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – review 2013-03-25T11:00:01Z

In “Us,” Peele uses the metaphor of the divided self to explore what lies beneath contemporary America, its double consciousness, its identity, sins and terrors. ‘Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Creepy Latest Turns a Funhouse Mirror on Us 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s actually kind of a powerful cultural metaphor that people are tapping into.” Field Notes: Weddings Move Past Traditional, in Some Cases, to Science Fictional 2012-09-14T21:25:29Z

“Cake,” the disc’s opener, lands somewhere in the middle -- it’s an etymological inquiry wrapped in the most transparent of dessert-related metaphors. Trey Songz poised for a breakthrough with 'Trigga' 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The game with Miéville's fiction is to unpick the complex, many layered metaphors he twists from the fantasy he is creating. Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z

It’s too easy, however, to see every recent pop culture phenomenon as a metaphor for combating terrorism. The 9/11 Decade: Outdone by Reality 2011-09-01T16:55:45Z

“Shadow of the Vampire” is a gory and grandiose metaphor for the torments and sacrifices made, extracted, and endured in the name of art. What to Stream This Weekend: Willem Dafoe in “Shadow of the Vampire” 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Some experts championed shock therapy, others called for institutionalization; some psychotherapists saw madness as a metaphor and some doctors prescribed catatonia by tranquilizers. Good Looks Ran in the Family. So Did Schizophrenia. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

That gives the movie a shiver of political currency even if a greater, more sustaining pleasure of this particular haunted-house fantasy is how it works as a metaphor for moviegoing itself. Movie Review: ‘The Conjuring’ Puts Lili Taylor in a Haunted House 2013-07-18T21:46:43Z

The joy of writing a novel like this is being able to take something you could see as a metaphor and making it real. Neil Gaiman to adapt novel American Gods for HBO 2011-08-22T19:11:34Z

Snow as a metaphor for either purity or devastation, or both. The mother of all murder stories | Eva Wiseman 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

Underneath the metaphors, was In the Flesh more than a melodramatic lesson about tolerance and loving thy neighbour? With In The Flesh, BBC3 gave us huggable zombies 2013-04-01T09:45:07Z

It also becomes a metaphor for his life, his ancestors: “My race began as the sea began,/with no nouns, and with no horizon”. Beach bard 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

With its absent inhabitants and missing floorboards, the Vesper house is a powerful, and suitably eerie, metaphor for loss. Galleries: One view of how people of color are portrayed in pre-modern art 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

It is a wonderfully apt metaphor for how the anarchic imagination asserts itself in the humdrum of daily life. | 'Wild Grass': Alain Resnais?s Film of Anarchic Imagination 2010-06-24T23:40:00Z

In an author’s note, Hammond writes that she saw in the story of the real Sealand “a metaphor for the human predicament.” Review: In ‘Terra Firma,’ a Wee Wet Country on the Brink 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

It looks like a piece of modern sculpture and, indeed, was meant to serve as a metaphor for the art and sculpture it housed. Lee F. Mindel explores the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in D.C. 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

“And that’s a metaphor for the city, where art is hemmed in by political forces.” On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

As much as that sounds like mystical mumbo-jumbo, it becomes a guiding metaphor when the story of "The Double Hour" divides into two narrative strands that lead to very different destinations for Guido and Sonia. "The Double Hour": A knife-twisting Italian thriller 2011-04-16T01:30:00Z

Her way of thinking, with its word salads and trap-door metaphors, is dangerously infectious. Monkeying with Mozart: the striking art of Helen Marten 2012-11-25T20:00:05Z

Mr. Gloger, however, wanted to present the sea as a metaphor for the unrestrained influences in the world. Music Review: Bayreuth Festival Opens With ‘Der Fliegende Holländer’ 2013-07-26T21:43:31Z

He deploys plenty of metaphors, not to adorn the stakes but to clarify them. One Journalist’s Wary, Frustrating Relationship With Edward Snowden 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

When Marcos institutes martial law, no audience member “is getting tortured or anything,” Timbers said, “but there is a metaphor at play physically.” Everybody Dance Now! ‘Here Lies Love’ Dictates Your Moves. 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

The magazines were both a symptom of and a metaphor for everything that happened.” How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z

Seeing "Made For Love" as such a metaphor invites us to appreciate it as a clever twist on the "woman on the verge" narrative, and Milioti's appeal plays into this quite well. Dark comedy "Made for Love" is HBO Max's "Black Mirror"-lite tale of bad romance turned sociopathic 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

“It’s a metaphor of racism and the whole story of this kind of violence against black people,” he said. A Director Asks, Would Jesus Stand With Today’s Migrants? 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

These images—the jammed brakes, the blocked digestive tract—are striking and visceral, and for Carrington, at the time, they were not metaphors. Leonora Carrington Rewrote the Surrealist Narrative for Women 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Sexual metaphors about giving and receiving, tops and bottoms, active and passive roles, as applied to everyday relationships, abound in this quick-moving comedy. | 'Trust': Zach Braff Stars as a New Millionaire 2010-08-13T04:00:00Z

I wanted to find a metaphor for the way this illness affects not only the sufferers but also those around them. Dementia drama 2011-02-22T06:59:01Z

That autism explodes the conventional American nuclear family narrative makes it irresistible as a metaphor for the stresses of life under late-stage capitalism. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Better yet, filmmakers could deal with controversial subjects by way of metaphor or parable. Why Hollywood keeps whitewashing the past 2011-08-12T15:20:00Z

Charlotte, to use one of the play’s favorite metaphors, is the snake who slithers into George’s paradise. Theater Review: ‘Casa Valentina,’ a New Play by Harvey Fierstein 2014-04-24T02:00:16Z

“Document” also leaves room for mystery and metaphor, however. 1987’s “Document” feels especially applicable to America in 2017 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

But the beautiful surfaces in your films also serve as a metaphor for the masks that your characters wear. ‘Carol’ director talks about the roots and relevance of his latest film 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

It's not a bad metaphor for mid-century Los Angeles; the city's gimcrack glamour is both inspiration for and backdrop to The Drowned Man. How Punchdrunk breathed life into The Drowned Man 2013-06-05T17:00:00Z

A particular pet peeve, she said: rap lyrics that involve the curious metaphor “hitting” and “smashing” a part of a woman’s anatomy. A Raunchy Comedy Club Crawl With Whitney Cummings 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

“Part of that is the complexity of the underpainting and what she hides underneath the surface. I think that’s an interesting metaphor for women and the essence of who we are at our core.” Where the Sky Meets the Sea: Jennifer Guidi Leans Into Beauty 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

In this metaphor, the streamer is the steamer, which, Conrad writes, is lurching and pitching and going sideways in the gale “as if taking a header into the void.” Ted Sarandos Talks About That Stock Drop, Backing Dave Chappelle, and Hollywood Schadenfreude 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

We used to be able to use a little irony and metaphor and wordplay. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

But the men, who dealt with families on each side of the U.S.-Mexico border, also found that animation gave them freedom to employ visual metaphors and depict the world through their subjects’ eyes. Growing a Generation of Movie-Loving Global Citizens 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Yes, most of the metaphors and parables packed into this story — a grab bag of sci-fi tropes highlighting humanity’s hamster-wheel existence — are this heavy-handed. From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Despite the obsolescence of the technology, Holmes keeps faith with what practitioners called "aerostation" – or at least he continues to value it as a metaphor. Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes – review 2013-04-22T07:00:01Z

His exhibit, “Being Played,” looks at the effects of fashion and climate using figures from chess as a metaphor. ‘Queen’s Gambit’ Costumes Make Us Want to Toss Our Leggings 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

The staging doesn’t hit you over the head with implicit metaphors or sermonizing, which is just as well, since the script sometimes does. Bradley Cooper in 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

The title of the exhibition, "Resonance," applies a scientific metaphor to Davis' "in-between position," which is "much like standing waves," Wieczorek adds. Review: Scientist-artist Joe Davis' mind-bending works at UW gallery 2011-02-10T20:56:03Z

The abyss is human, not divine, a work in progress, whether made with a poet’s metaphor or with a vast prodigious bulk of Styrofoam. I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel 2013-06-03T15:32:00Z

“A more perfect unconscious metaphor for his American cockiness,” the critic and historian Joseph Horowitz writes of the moment, “could hardly be invented.” Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Throughout this entire book, your facility with metaphor is wonderful. "GLOW" star Betty Gilpin on battling "implanted patriarchy" and women "cycling through selves" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

Typically, it was a metaphor for the show itself, which had struggled to survive throughout the years; "Save Greendale!" was the fifth season's hashtaggy theme. 'Community' is back in session, this time on Yahoo Screen 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a gritty metaphor about the global flux of vulnerable populations by a Zimbabwean who lives in South Africa. What Not to Miss at the Armory Show at the Piers 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

For Netflix and Amazon, the similarity is purely coincidental; for FilmStruck, a cinephile site, it is, if not a selling point, at least a happy metaphor for the primacy of theatrical projection. The Fate of Cinephilia in the Age of Streaming 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

And this is where the metaphor of her weight really kicks in: Melissa McCarthy is big so that she can throw her weight around. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

And the lyrics, with elaborate syntax popular with poets when the words were drafted a century ago, fluster many with arcane metaphors such as that of a land "lying eternally in its splendid cradle." As protests simmer, Brazil's national anthem soars at World Cup 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

But to focus on his songwriting alone neglects the power of his energetic live performances, his commitment to connections with fans, and his conversation style, full of colorful metaphors. Josh Ritter preaches his “messianic oracular honky tonk”: “I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Is “Possessor,” a movie about bodies being infiltrated and forced to kill themselves, a metaphor for our democracy? Brandon Cronenberg Will Now Perform an Interview 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Just as their downriver journey looks like being a metaphor for sexual initiation … it becomes an actual sexual initiation. The African Queen ? review 2011-03-03T22:00:01Z

But it's all mixed together -- intriguingly -- so that one metaphor, one experience, seems to morph into another. "Big Love's" riveting final stretch 2011-03-07T17:15:00Z

Of course, because some of the most profound achievements of the book are deflections or metaphors or reflections of the human condition, or a peculiar aspect of an extreme experience. Benedict Cumberbatch on His Emmy Nod for Bringing Patrick Melrose to Life 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

To use the looking glass metaphor, she is a much happier person now because she is completely through to the other side of the looking glass. The raw horror of Alzheimer's 2010-06-01T20:00:00Z

Standing in a deserted hallway, Hill takes issue with Thomas’s metaphor, as the granddaughter of a man threatened with lynching. Does HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ favor Anita Hill? Kerry Washington and others say no way. 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

“The ball is a metaphor for the present moment and what we do with it,” Thomas said. Creator of Divisive King Monument Builds Sculpture for Super Bowl 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Think of the North Pole as a metaphor for heaven, the place to which we send our hopes and wishes. A guide to the secret meaning of holiday symbols 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

“The metaphors of the piece are in the engineering,” she said. Outside Prison Walls: Waiting, Spinning, Flying 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

In an interview with The Times shortly after his death, she described their relationship with vibrant metaphors. Billie Whitelaw, Longtime Beckett Muse, Dies at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

It is the first of a series of physical metaphors for their interaction, here evoking Missen's blind trust that he is not walking alone. Company Chameleon 2010-04-16T22:00:00Z

The rigid delineations among tiers in loyalty programs are uncomfortably vivid metaphors for the way we live now, no matter how euphemistic the terms. 7 Hours of Travel, 2 Hours on the Ground: Worth It for the Rewards Points 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Hearing the tale now, it sounds rather like a metaphor for a writer struggling to keep it together. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

During a video interview one recent morning, Miller, who lives in Chicago, and Nasser, who lives in Los Angeles, were bursting with metaphors. ‘Don’t Break It!’ The New Hosts of ‘Radiolab’ Remodel a Landmark 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

It’s an arresting visual metaphor for existences reduced to ashes by people who can’t help destroying themselves. ‘Medea’ Review: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, Torched by Love 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

In theatre, prison lends itself to metaphor: we are meant to see our own society in the prisoners' narrow walls. Why prisons hold playwrights captive 2011-02-23T15:27:28Z

Once more, though, it seems churlish to complain when so many provocative ideas flow out of Asimov; when so much of the book is such an effective and prophetic metaphor for our times. Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z

“But they didn’t die — which in itself was an incredible metaphor.” William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

First of all, the opening image of "Swagger" is this hand-drawn maze that Jace's father gives to him, and "maze" becomes a metaphor for life. From masculinity to race, Apple's basketball series "Swagger" addresses "so much more than sports" 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z

The first show in the DS+R building, opening January 31, will be “Architecture of Life,” an exploration of “the ways that architecture—as concept, metaphor, and practice—illuminates various aspects of life experience.” Diller Scofidio + Renfro Unveils Its Design for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Our modern vampires are a metaphor for teenagers' wider anxieties about their bodies and their first stirrings of desire. University conference sinks its teeth into vampire fiction 2010-04-05T23:05:00Z

The work reflects the festival-goers: I often felt I was wandering through a global village of images, with the unevenness and lack of a guiding current, a metaphor for photography's ongoing identity crisis. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2011 ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:19Z

Conrad Tao tends to slip into celestial metaphors. Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Fluidity washes; power blurs as East meets West; metaphor piles onto metaphor. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

He showed that it can be transferred to the stage, and also transformed into metaphor. Review: Raphael Xavier, Breaking Out of Boxes, Barely 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

The song cycle is also a metaphor for the tidal nature of depression, and its five acts move through stages of hope and despair. Review: Titus Andronicus Releases a Punk Opera 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The original language is packed with American metaphors and idioms that just don’t translate. Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Despite the somewhat tortured metaphor, the super PAC insisted they weren't comparing Trump to Lord Voldemort: "Note: we are not calling Donald Trump evil. This is an analogy, not a direct comparison." Marco Rubio's super PAC casts Trump as Voldemort (and who is Harry Potter?) 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Her work is a poem itself, in which images and metaphors flow together in a dreamlike state. Review | Muddy bodies and dusty beauty in Deborah Colker’s ‘Dog Without Feathers’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

As a metaphor and a bid to be part of the power continuum, it doesn’t get much clearer than that. Dior and Saint Laurent Play Power Games in Paris 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

That maybe encyclopedias, so neatly alphabetized, are presented as complete knowledge of the world, yet end up being as useful as a metaphor. Pick Your Poison: The Sweet, Sometimes Lethal Sides of Your Produce 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Hope, spring, love — all the cheesy metaphors — float towards me this morning in March. Marriage in the time of coronavirus: Sheltering in place, together, in the U.S. outbreak epicenter 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

There’s something in our culture and in our common pop culture about songs about the railroad, in which the railroad becomes a metaphor for aspiration, for heartbreak, for death. Billy Bragg’s Railroad Songs 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The piece, “A Clown Show About Rain,” is a deceptively playful work of physical theater: As it wears on, it becomes apparent that the tempest at the play’s center is a metaphor for depression. At Edinburgh Fringe, a Spotlight on Mental Health 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

The photograph is like an abstract illustration and detail of development, with power lines perhaps serving as metaphors for people and policies. A Small Brazilian Photo Club That Reached for the Skyline 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The bottom of the cave isn’t a metaphor; it’s where metaphors come from. ‘Il Buco’ Review: Notes From Underground 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Submit to a swirl of clumsy metaphors and a been-there-done-that narrative and become one with "Drones," the cerebral new concept album by the British art rock band Muse. Concept album by Muse just drones on 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

It was a perfect metaphor for that political time: Each step forward, however gingerly taken, held with it the possibility of great destruction. With raw eggs and a roomful of clay, Anna Maria Maiolino makes unsentimental art about being a woman 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

But at the beginning of it, a man is a metaphor for the city of Paterson, and vice versa. Celebrating Two Centuries of Thoreau 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

“My ship passes,” the second one, introduces a metaphor that runs through the other poems Mr. Berger chose: of a rudderless ship passing “in oblivion through rough sea.” Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Listening to her, visual-art metaphors become tempting: These works are as complex and detail-driven as, say, a Mark Bradford canvas, and just as huge in scale. Satoko Fujii, a Pianist Who Finds Music Hidden in the Details of Life 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

The demolished results, with its splattered paint liberated through the violent act, were an apt metaphor for the French-American artist's feminist rage and trail-blazing imagination that was to propel her through four decades of work. Niki de Saint Phalle shoots to kill at Paris retrospective 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

I owe the following metaphor to my friend, the incisive novelist Andrew Altschul: The Republicans are playing ice hockey and the Democrats are playing badminton. Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The metaphor for the fast ending might be the string quartet as particle accelerator, shooting "Diabelli" particles into each other and seeing what new particles with dazzlingly strange properties might result. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Grid life seems all too easy a metaphor for a society stripped bare, exposed for what it has become. What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

A metaphor for this programme from Cousin Violet. Downton Abbey recap: series five, episode four – dangerously close to an actual plot 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

And in that way the film serves as a metaphor for its own aspirations. Review: ‘Batman v Superman,’ Dawn of a Franchise 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The scene has been interpreted as a metaphor for political pressure felt by the Church of England as well as the emotional turmoil the artist was feeling after the death of his wife. Constable masterpiece goes on show 2014-03-07T07:36:44Z

Almost all of this novel’s metaphors and similes emerge from the author’s experience of the Internet and his sense of the way it is colonizing consciousness. Books of The Times: ‘Taipei,’ by Tao Lin 2013-06-04T12:00:01Z

At the risk of mix-breeding metaphors, the movie racehorse is usually an underdog, one whose victories transcend the winner’s circle. Film: In ?Secretariat,? Dark Horse Is the Owner 2010-10-03T00:45:00Z

But Huston does something perhaps a little creepier by treating this acutely vulnerable human being more as a metaphor than a person. DVD: Marilyn Monroe, Lushly Rendered 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z

The characters are less blank largely because of Zahler’s writing, his eccentric metaphors and monologues. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

What a metaphor from a designer who knows so well how to manipulate emotion. Céline’s Scissor Sister 2014-03-02T20:20:24Z

Although the physical and emotional brutality on display is tough to take, it's hard to dismiss the film's pitch dark ironies, painful truths and incendiary metaphors. 'Maps to the Stars' a nightmarish tour of Hollywood narcissism 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then these photos were a near-perfect metaphor for Melania Trump’s time in “office.” Perspective | One year into Melania Trump’s Be Best program, she continues her miscalculation of the first lady role 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

The common charge against our online habits is that they are shallow; but, in keeping with the metaphor, rabbit holes deepen our world. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

I’ve been trying to think of a metaphor – an opera singer teaching nursery rhymes? In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the hardest thing for the more skeptical and less mystically inclined of us to accept is that mulling these metaphors often turns people into, in Pollan’s handy phrase, “fervent evangelists of the obvious.” A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Then again, maybe it is kind a metaphor. The joy of "Abbott Elementary" is in its lesson about working hard for a fulfilling purpose 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Bottom’s indescribable visions were a suddenly wrenching metaphor for the collective dreams we dream — artists, audience and all — when live theater, at its best, pulls us under its spell. Digital Theater Isn’t Theater. It’s a Way to Mourn Its Absence. 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

The only flaw in this unconventional but affecting novel is that its central metaphor — the girl’s disappearance — remains obscure. A Girl Vanishes. But in This Novel, Time Is the Real Mystery. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Dave Edmunds' 1979 rocker Queen of Hearts makes more use of wordplay, this time finding a metaphor for a heartbreaker in a playing card, which later gave a nickname to Princess Diana. Readers recommend: songs about queens 2012-06-07T15:28:41Z

Plot and character mattered less to him than the ripe bit of regional speech, the fraught incident, the startling metaphor, the ingeniously shaped sentence. Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 2010-03-03T16:39:00Z

Along with the evident nature metaphors, one of the recurring themes is cinnamon, which refers to Williams’s cozy home and inner world, a femininity of her own construction. How Hayley Williams Saved Herself (and, BTW, Paramore) 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

But I don’t know what that metaphor could be.” At 69, Charlotte Rampling Knows What ‘You Look Amazing’ Really Means 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

But its prevailing psychological metaphor is the brick wall he learns to build alongside his father, his Daddio. The Slap Wasn’t the Only Astonishing Thing About the Oscars 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Because what the vampire genre really needs is another heavy-handed, badly-thought-out metaphor. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter slaves away at a rotten metaphor 2012-06-27T13:15:49Z

For Yola, birds are a metaphor for her photography—for the ability to fly into freedom while remaining, at times, captured or tethered. How to Capture a Bird 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The obvious tension we hear is made more obvious by seeing the white dancer Karl Rogers hover over Mr. Kelly’s sinking Sly, but there’s a potent metaphor in the deceptive chitchat. Dance Review: David Dorfman?s ?Prophets of Funk? at the Joyce Theater 2012-01-25T23:51:50Z

This metaphor, alas, does not work so well with travel by ship or plane. ‘Summerwater’ Makes an Intimate Study of Social Class Out of a Long, Rainy Day 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

The metaphor that dominates the book is that of "enclosure". Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review 2013-04-28T08:00:18Z

In another writer, these fears might simply be a subtle way to portray the compulsive, sourceless guilt of the political exile, and hypnosis a metaphor for the difficulties of memory. Review: ‘The Dream of My Return,’ by Horacio Castellanos Moya 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Unpurged souls would be hiking through the topography of metaphor – bogs, sucking ponds, dark woods – for years without number. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z

That “field of stone,” after all, isn’t only a metaphor for the struggles awaiting romantic commitment—it’s a graveyard. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

In other words, cooking is a metaphor for life. Nigella Lawson: I'm very much a survivor. Everyone should be 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

As she slides into decline, Katherine travels to Bonn to research why Beethoven devoted so many years to his famous Diabelli Variations  — the subject of her monograph and the operative metaphor behind Kaufman’s play. Actors Co-op's fine revival of Moisés Kaufman’s '33 Variations' 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

But we expect great tragedy any day now, and there’s no better metaphor for the feelings of powerlessness than the zombie menace. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

In combination with his own writings, or using fragments of literature as inspiration, Sullivan approaches photographs not as documents of a place or person but as visual stories that serve as poetic representations or metaphors. Jordan Sullivan’s “The Young Earth and An Island in the Moon” 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

In contrast to the language of “stocks” and of “gifts” that we use to talk about sperm and egg donation, insurance is the metaphor that dominates discussions of egg freezing. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Ted Nugent doesn’t deserve to be in a metaphor with this drink. The born-in-Detroit cocktail that has spawned countless variations 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

In fact, he uses that exact metaphor at one point, after saying that he considered himself "trapped" by the material. James Franco says he didn't want to host Oscars 2011-07-21T22:26:48Z

But for some, the decentralized, ad hoc nature of the planning is a strength — or at least a useful metaphor. Will America Be Ready for Its 250th Birthday? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

But gambling is a powerfully adaptive metaphor, reconfiguring its meaning to each new age and place. MGM’s $1.4 billion casino is a cruise ship to nowhere 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

“That theme of love being messy, and romance and friendship being messy and embracing the messiness of it — the sandwich started to feel like a weird but effective metaphor for that.” What Kind of Sandwich Is Your Relationship? 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Let all of these food metaphors not conjure cheese; these are not empty calories. Review | At the Kennedy Center, songs you haven’t heard and cellphones you wish you hadn’t 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

And then, when she went without makeup or styling for an album portrait, she felt liberated, and the act became a metaphor. Alicia Keys and the ‘Tyranny of Makeup’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

In a story of that kind you can't be coarse, so I write very carefully, and metaphor comes in, but I do give quite a lot of detail … There's plenty of sex. Mills & Boon goes behind National Trust's bedroom doors for racy novels 2010-05-02T23:05:00Z

I use the metaphor of a foot slipping off the curb and jolting, that I often used to have in dreams. Alan Garner: a life in books 2012-08-17T21:45:03Z

The "winter boughs" call up no obtrusively eloquent metaphor, no effortful adjectives or verbs: they are simply "spidery" and "twitched in a breeze". Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z

Winningly poor extended metaphors, and the viewer almost starting to sweat as he keeps digging into them! World Cup; The Biology of Dads; Budget coverage 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

“The Red Thread,” Frank tells us, is a Chinese “metaphor for a binding tie that exists between people unknown to each other.” Review | Something to celebrate: Four literary gems that have survived the vagaries of publishing 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

“The miniatures just struck me as a potent metaphor for the family’s situation,” Aster said. The story behind ‘Hereditary,’ the Toni Collette horror movie that scared the bejesus out of Sundance 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a metaphor for literature, one that Farewell rejects. A Bolaño Novel About Young Poets in Mexico City, Hungry for Fame, Sex and Adventure. No, Not That One. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

The show uses teenage werewolfery as the usual metaphor — for puberty, rebellion, feeling like an outsider, being embarrassed by your family — but in a decidedly homespun way. ‘Wolfblood,’ From the BBC, Features Young Werewolves 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

But though he dives in with relish, Wayne mostly comes up empty-handed: metaphors are laboured, tired or just remarkably offputting. Lil' Wayne: I Am Not a Human Being II – review 2013-03-28T22:30:02Z

It is metaphor as the best of cinema can be. Benedict Cumberbatch Has Heard Your Confusion About ‘The Power of the Dog’ 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

The play was widely seen as a dramatic metaphor for the clashes between British forces and independence fighters in Northern Ireland. Brian Friel dies at 86; 'Irish Chekhov' won Tony for 'Dancing at Lughnasa' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

A fatal lack of fact, personal testimony and stories combined with a surfeit of words, an absence of strong images and metaphor, and poor use of video made the performance distinctly underwhelming. De Gabay – review 2013-03-04T12:41:12Z

Don’t expect music ripped from the headlines; Ms. Thorvaldsdottir is a composer who prefers metaphor to a heavy hand. The New York Philharmonic Channels the Chaos of the Cosmos 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

But how would you make it more accessible and still keep in mind “meter, rhyme, rhythm, metaphor” and more? Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

He called the material “a metaphor for my own hyphenated identity.” New Triennial Offers Artists the Canvas of Cleveland 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name,” from “Casino Royale,” contained neither word from the title, but it did rely on an extended gambling metaphor. Sam Smith’s Song Breaks the Bond Rules 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

In The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris – a novel in which the protagonist destroys himself and his family by his obsessive outings – walking is not only the subject and the theme, it is also the metaphor. Zbinden's Progress by Christoph Simon – review 2012-08-17T21:55:06Z

Drawing thematic rather than chronological connections among vignettes, his movies teem with rhymed moments and found metaphors. Need an Essential Chronicler of America? Try This Nonfiction Master 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Planting a flag on top of a mountain--that was a great metaphor. Neil Patrick Harris chats about his choose-your-own-adventure memoir 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Tedious metaphors, drawing comparisons between birds and humans, cages and countries, overwhelm sentences. His Nation in Turmoil, One Boy Finds Refuge and Adventure in Friendship 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Colson Whitehead’s well-built, stunningly daring novel turns the historical freedom network from metaphor to reality, complete with tracks, locomotives and platforms. Nine Great New Books for August 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

It seems like a metaphor for marriage, too. Marriage in the time of coronavirus: Sheltering in place, together, in the U.S. outbreak epicenter 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

In the first episode, a lone wolf — and that’s not a metaphor for a loner, but an actual sheep-eating wolf — gets a pair of cement shoes. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z

It’s a visual metaphor for psychic and physical oppression. Styles Q + A: Artist Eli Sudbrack’s Work Will Be on View in Soho This Week 2014-05-02T23:33:59Z

“We can follow that metaphor for a single beat further and say we are going to be the second marriage,” she said. Gabrielle Hamilton Plans to Partner With Ken Friedman to Run the Spotted Pig 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

The Most Metaphorical: As the date continues, so do the metaphors. ‘The Bachelorette’ Watch: Mad in Madeira 2013-07-09T14:57:56Z

United States, Holmes invented the metaphor of the marketplace of ideas, single-handedly laying the groundwork for the modern constitutional protection of freedom of speech. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

“I’m a monster,” Ruby exclaims after a destructive mishap on terra firma, sending the needle on the viewer’s gauge for puberty metaphors flying into the red. ‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ Review: Coming of Age is a Sea Change 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

He’s definitely a man still full of similes and metaphors — about women, the weather, the color of the skies in the dusty Mexican towns he visits. It’s 1988 and Philip Marlowe Is Retired. But Not for Long. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

A senior officer’s son who is full of questions about his father’s work plays with a set of toy soldiers, which become a metaphor for the overmatched military policemen. Review: An Empire Declines, Awash in Adultery and Gin and Tonics 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Falcons and other large birds of prey are usually harmless to humans, unless recklessly deployed as metaphors. Review: ‘Aloft’ Trains an Eagle Eye on Human Misery 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

It is also a suitable metaphor for Cunningham’s dances, which often appear to begin in the middle, without a foreseeable end. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

It can be taken both literally and as a metaphor — an occasion to think about the structure of power. Review | Zoe Leonard speaks straight to your soul 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Misrach added: “We’re not only bridging the notion of the two cultures but also our two mediums. It is a nice metaphor for what should be happening with the border.” Art Installation Shares Sights and Sounds of the Border 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

For all his determination to articulate his thoughts, Boulez has little use for metaphor, the absence of which can make reading him a grind. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Add to this St. Lucia’s remarkable natural beauty — pristine beaches, tropical forests and the dramatic twin Piton mountains — and Eden seemed like the perfect metaphor for St. Lucia. Going Local on the Island of St. Lucia 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

Her persistent efforts to put it back into place—tuck, tuck, tuck—felt like some grim metaphor. What Is Lost in Hedi Slimane’s Celine 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Both novels attempt to represent multifaceted reality, and there is sometimes an unbearable intensity as the metaphors sprout and writhe. The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z

And I do think this tip-of-the-iceberg metaphor is important, because if you can’t defend the most basic rights, it gets harder and harder to defend political rights, social rights, economic rights. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The box, he said, was “a metaphor for me being distracted.” At Sotheby’s, ASAP Rocky Breaks Out of the Box 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

In conversation, Marin often launches into celestial metaphors to describe “Black Imagination,” invoking the likes of stars and quantum entanglement to explain the power of Black artistry and experience. Seattle artist Natasha Marin’s ‘Black Imagination’ treats Black voices as boundless treasures 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

"Without going too specific, I think of it as the story of a relationship, being told through the metaphor of the hospital with two characters within it," Silberman says. The Antlers' kiss of death 2010-05-13T21:50:00Z

Though Merchant died before the book was published, The Hundred-Foot Journey hits theaters on Aug. 8, and it won’t be alone in claiming that a meal can be a metaphor. Meals as Metaphors: Two New Movies Provide Food for Thought 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

How about something with a playful metaphor that will pair well with that all-white outfit? The Prince song too hot for the strip club: Why the Purple One is always a go-go bar DJ’s go-to jam 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Like metaphor, the subject of Geary’s previous book “I Is an Other,” wit often yokes together dissimilar entities to achieve a sudden illumination. Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

As film professor and author of Contemporary Black American Cinema Mia Mask tells me: “African American cinema is a metaphor for black experience because it is a history of the struggle for inclusion.” The slow rise of black cinema 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

A metaphor, nevertheless, is picked up from the previous poem: that of the shipwreck. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z

Felled by the weapon, Stroud’s own experience is a metaphor for the troubling tale of how tasers became standard equipment for cops. The Author Who Tased Himself to Reveal the Failures of High-Tech Policing 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Even in the section of the show called “American Nightmare,” which is almost entirely about violence, a balance between document and metaphor holds. Art Review: ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-03-21T01:34:12Z

Acting, then, may have terrified Marilyn because it could expose her as the hollow shell—her mind “a desert,” a metaphor that recalls California—she suspected herself to be. America’s original California girl 2012-08-06T20:33:00Z

Drax is an immensely enjoyable character who pulls a disproportionate number of this movie’s laughs, a fierce warrior with a thesaurus-scale vocabulary who is incapable of understanding metaphor. “Guardians of the Galaxy”: Marvel’s goofy, exhausting and faintly fascist new franchise 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

While in the libretto, the dwarf Alberich briefly turns himself into a lowly toad, that is here just a metaphor; it’s mentioned in the text, but nothing happens. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Noah went with a somewhat different metaphor. Donald Trump Jr.’s Choice of a Lawyer Raises Eyebrows on Late Night 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

As in the Melrose novels, lusty descriptions of drug use pepper insights on the lives of the rich, the satire spiced with characteristically zestful metaphor. This Is Your Brain on Edward St. Aubyn 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

That’s partly because Ms. Jung, a writer of industrious imagination, has a poet’s gift for sustaining and interlinking motifs and metaphor. Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

And Now for a Word From Our Therapist Matthew Perry’s character in the new NBC comedy “Go On” would certainly know the metaphor: You’re unlikely to win unless you’re comfortable in the transition game. Television Review: ‘Go On,’ With Matthew Perry, on NBC 2012-09-10T21:51:57Z

Etro used the bovine motif as "a metaphor for mountain and central European culture." Menswear on the European runways 2011-01-24T19:08:53Z

Using bamboo, wire and rattan, Mr. Pich “weaves” his pieces into a web or grid, a technique that is deceptively simple and, he says, rich in metaphor. Cambodian Art Emerges From Horrors of a Murderous Past 2010-12-29T15:30:02Z

The lighting and environment create a metaphor for going from the darkness to the light. Seattle artist Preston Singletary gets solo show at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

It was a metaphor of liberty, a symbol of gratitude never forgotten. The Legacy De Gaulle Left in London 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

But for all these literary correlations, Mr. O’Rowe’s language is distinct — in its ribaldry, its understatement, its metaphors and, especially, its exuberant, muscular descriptions of impossible battles. ‘Howie the Rookie,’ in BAM’s Next Wave Festival 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Every word is explicit: Robinson does not hide his anger under a metaphor. Your most inspiring political songs 2012-08-03T17:22:06Z

Lapotin talks in terms of "finding ways to stay somewhere in the dead zone between really aestheticised genres" and describes Returnal as "an allegory or metaphor for cyclical things that happen in nature". New band of the day ? No 886: Oneohtrix Point Never 2010-10-13T16:44:00Z

“But it was the perfect metaphor for how we felt.” Whit Stillman and the Song of the Preppy 2012-03-18T05:30:57Z

It's a play that hurts to watch, particularly presented up close, as it is here in Ria Parry's revival, in which the confining space of the Finborough becomes a metaphor for spirits cramped by capitalism. Fen ? review 2011-03-09T19:01:00Z

Extending the metaphor, he says it’s like when a grown child gets married. George Lucas: To feel the true force of ‘Star Wars,’ he had to learn to let it go 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Freud used the city of Rome as a metaphor for the human mind, an accumulation of material from all ages still in some sense accessible if we just refocus our gaze. ‘Rome: A History in Seven Sackings’ Review: The City That Survived 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

He introduces the metaphors of the box, the auction and the boxing ring. Review: Raphael Xavier, Breaking Out of Boxes, Barely 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Millsaps said Birkins were a “cultural symbol of rarefied wealth and status,” ripe for artists to explore as metaphors of consumerism. Hermès Wins MetaBirkins Lawsuit, With Jurors Deciding NFTs Aren’t Art 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

The last two paragraphs of the book amount to one of the most excruciating extended metaphors — yes, the ship of state! The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

I can’t think of a better metaphor for Minimalism and Reich’s early music. Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

There was supposed to be a metaphor behind that George O’Keeffe quote about painting one’s own landscape. The Female Gaze of Petra Collins 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

In “Fanciulla” he used their roomy intervals not simply as markers for exoticism but also as aural metaphors for the wide-open spaces of the West. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z

In the most tense and thrilling live-reported moment of the evening, Blitzer opened a window, or perhaps a metaphor, into the bleak heart of the problem. ‘Oh! So frustrating indeed!’: Not even Wolf Blitzer could take the agony of waiting for Iowa 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

And her body, like all fat women’s bodies, is a living metaphor. I will wear a swimsuit one day: Manifesto of a righteous fat-ass 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Alice and her family live in a so-called smart house that comes with a talking computer that turns on appliances, greets the family and serves as a strained metaphor for what ails this brood. Movie Review: ‘Parental Guidance,’ With Billy Crystal and Bette Midler 2012-12-24T22:52:20Z

First staged in 1934, the play was revived in 1952, when it rivalled Miller's The Crucible as a dramatic metaphor for the hounding of Communist sympathisers. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:05Z

“It struck me as a great metaphor for how narrative works,” she said. Ali Smith on Her New Book, ‘How to be both’ 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Then he and his diverse team of advisers—from progressive environmentalists to conservative business lobbyists—would synthesize centrist solutions that were unveiled at press conferences heavy on body-building metaphors. Professor Schwarzenegger 2012-08-31T23:30:00Z

She became interested in how seeds travel on the water, an appealing metaphor in her own life. Veronica Ryan’s Uncanny Objects 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

“Indeed, there is very nearly the opposite, delivered by a writer with a full command of the English sentence and an electric talent for metaphor.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

A neat metaphor for the destructive march of progress if ever there was one. Deadwood is the best drama HBO has ever made – it must be revived 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

In that sense, it’s the perfect metaphor for creation itself.” Crafts Are Celebrated at Peekskill Clay Studios 2011-10-23T00:48:55Z

Doran's myopia in this regard made me uncomfortable, particularly in the final scene when she resorts to naked metaphors to sum up her unwieldy and increasingly contrived drama. 'Parenthood's' Mae Whitman explores 'The Mystery of Love & Sex' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Given the extraordinary team he assembled—a cast of thousands, as it were, fit for a Cecil B. DeMille showstopper—the metaphor is perfectly apt. Tour Director Michael Bay's Modern Three-Story Stunner 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

His great metaphor, which he keeps returning to, is that finding contentment is like digging for food in a crab leg: You take whatever you can claw out. Four Stand-Up Specials That Showcase Hard-Working Comics 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

In her travels, Kiki encounters all ages of womanhood, each of whose sexualities is hinted at through metaphors involving fire and flames. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z

The dualities of observation and abstraction, intimacy and distance, often led critics to discover poetry and metaphor in Havas' work. A tribute to Paul Havas, skilled NW landscape painter 2012-03-07T22:57:03Z

“She’s a metaphor for that which we as a culture reject — aging, death, dying, loss of ability,” she says. Why exactly did so many people like ‘Cats’ in the first place? 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

She described Pelosi’s swearing-in dress — which is really more fuchsia than red — as a metaphor for her complicated feelings about the House speaker. She may not acknowledge it, but Nancy Pelosi is a fashion icon 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Wilson's dramatic skill lies in finding visual metaphors to express his characters' need to explore their cultural roots while they are being assimilated into 20th-century America. Joe Turner's Come and Gone 2010-06-04T20:30:00Z

That care and feeding of those around you is not a metaphor in “Chef”; it’s the whole point. Jon Favreau Serves Up a Smaller Film, ‘Chef’ 2014-04-25T16:51:47Z

But to me, “Nevermind” is the soundtrack to all of Seattle, sometimes in metaphor, and sometimes in real life. That magic moment 30 years ago when Nirvana and ‘Nevermind’ forever changed Seattle 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

The metaphor of diversity in the differences from one log to the next was an aesthetic dividend. The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Kalamazoo 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

For me, the cat is like a central metaphor that describes the whole movie. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z

You use fire as a metaphor for sex, and for love, and for grief in remarkable ways. “A lifetime of fighting fires, drinking beer and eating red meat”: The author of “Wildfire” on what it takes for a woman to make it on a hotshot crew 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

If that suggests we read “Of Walking in Ice” as metaphor, it is both more and less than that. Werner Herzog's walking blues 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Holt’s lyric tells of a father’s warning about the vicissitudes of love, invoking the title as a metaphor: Will Holt, Who Wrote ‘Lemon Tree,’ Dies at 86 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Through this avian metaphor, the young mother condemns those women who prefer wandering to caring for their offspring. A Maternal Rite of Passage in Democratic Republic of Congo 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

People who had been dead for years came back to life, returning to a small Alpine town situated next to a vast dam, which seemed to serve as a bleak concrete metaphor for eternity. Rewind TV: The Returned; Confessions of an Alien Abductee; The Fall; Dates; Agnetha: Abba and After – review 2013-06-15T17:00:05Z

Hauser said war metaphors were so ingrained in cancer language that it would be difficult to do away with them. 'War on cancer' metaphors may do harm, research shows 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

All the metaphors in there could relate to what happened between me and the music industry. Danny Brown finds success by rapping about being broke 2012-03-28T00:18:00Z

College professor and music critic Josh Kun used the art of the crossfade, in which a hip-hop DJ merges two strands of music, as a metaphor for social integration. Future of Music Summit 2013: Dreams, modest and otherwise 2013-10-30T02:12:00Z

When I stand in front of my classroom and explain the magic of a Dickens metaphor, I conjure up the voice of my sixth-grade teacher, Mr. Akeley. Motherlode Blog: Farewell, Count von Count 2012-08-27T17:45:36Z

The metaphor there was almost too applicable; fortunately, the show was strong enough to withstand the hype. Perspective | The best TV of the decade? It’s a lot to sort out. 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

Or perhaps the more apt metaphor is this one: Like Victor Frankenstein, who created a monster, Kramer realized he ought to rein in some of the potentially damaging concepts he’d loosed on the world. Should We Still Listen to Prozac? Peter D. Kramer Jumps Back Into the Antidepressant Debate 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

It was populism applied to the exclusive — a handy metaphor for the Academy Awards themselves. The Carpetbagger: It?s Back to the Studio, as Oscar Season Ends 2011-03-02T23:27:13Z

But few take their metaphors both as seriously and as lightly as Moonlighter, which, this month, means moving the event to an office space in Manhattan, after hours. Secret Science Club, Nerd Nite and Other Barroom Education 2012-01-05T18:20:29Z

As he puts it on “The Joker and the Queen,” a music-box piano ditty on “=” that stretches a poker metaphor exhaustingly far, “When I fold, you see the best in me.” Ed Sheeran Sticks With a Familiar Formula on ‘=’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Weird metaphor, I know, but listen to it. This week's new singles 2011-08-12T23:07:56Z

The metaphor fits: This is cerebral, modern jazz that still has a convincing pulse, and a wide berth for fetching improvisations. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

But it is the Goldberg Variations that command center stage, both as music to master and as metaphor for Kennicott’s search for truth. Review | In ‘Counterpoint,’ a memoirist reflects on love, loss and Bach 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The robot rebellion is, inevitably, an imperfect metaphor for the quest for human equality; robots are, after all, the creations of humans, and destined to remain that way. How “Westworld” Failed the Western 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

In the 19th century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge attended public chemistry lectures to expand his “stock of metaphors.” The Mysteries of Friendship, Illuminated by Spooky Quantum Physics 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

For American writers even now, Christianity continues to provide a vast web of references, imagery and metaphor. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

It seemed an example of, or metaphor for, a kind, supportive community. Simone Forti’s Experiments Transcribing Bodies in Motion 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

This acclaimed poet discusses the use of metaphor as part of the Word Works Writers on Writing series. at 7 p.m. The week ahead: Norwegian Culture and Heritage Day, Major Jackson, and Shamrock Show 2014-03-12T22:00:55Z

But wait, there's more weaving metaphors going on with the introduction of color as well. Magic and mysteries woven into "The Wheel of Time" main titles 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

And though much of Pereira de Almeida’s prose reads like lyrical stream of consciousness, her use of Mila’s hair as a metaphor, the perfect stand-in for all her questions of identity, is universal. For Black and Mixed-Race Women, Hair and Identity Are Tangled Together 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

As he put it, “White is a metaphor for power and it is simply a way for describing Chase Manhattan Bank.” #WhiteHouseSoWhite: “I Am Not Your Negro” illuminates America’s ongoing race problem 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

“Birthday Candles” nearly suffocates in such grandiloquent pronouncements and existential metaphors. ‘Birthday Candles’ Review: Another Year, Another Cake, Another Profundity 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

A metaphor for the ups and downs of life, this brilliantly realised novel will leave readers grinning and thinking simultaneously. A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton - review 2012-11-17T09:00:00Z

And to writers: As a critic who is compelled to use metaphors to describe the intangible qualities of a performance, I also wonder about the assumptions I’m making when I use certain words. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

This seems to me to be the central metaphor of the film, about Katja becoming clear about what she’s about to do. Diane Kruger hopes you don’t forget her name when the awards buzz fades 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Is cancer, likewise, a metaphor for the incurable cruelty of being young? Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z

The title refers to the nearing storm that’s at once a narrative device and enveloping metaphor. Review: ‘October Gale’ Stars Patricia Clarkson 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

At least, that's the metaphor she currently uses to describe her impassioned, infuriated feelings about what's happening to our reproductive rights in America right now. "Daily Show" co-creator on how Trump isn't funny and comedy could help save abortion 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

There is, and will always be, a competitiveness to life, and a ready metaphor in how that competition plays out in sports. Running for Their Lives in Two Middle-Grade Novels About Track Teams 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

It is a way of making our metaphors concrete, and it shades into myth in one direction, allegory in another. Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

This is going to sound really pointy-headed, but I came to understand that metaphor, as we understand it in fiction, isn't something that lives in books. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The vampires of True Blood emerged from their coffins boasting violence, verve and sociological metaphors. When good TV goes bad: Why True Blood sucked the life out of the campy Vampire mystery 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Letts is clearly using the bugs as a metaphor for various governmental misdeeds. 'Bug' at Redtwist Theatre: Up-close production can't help but crawl under your skin 2011-06-02T13:06:50Z

And Westerns are what myths used to be — like you go back and you read your Iliad and your Odyssey — they’re an exaggeration to metaphor of what you deal with every day. Holy D.C. connection! A local comic book writer used to work for the CIA! 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

He titled all of these objects “Untitled,” and insisted they were devoid of metaphors, personal data or real-world references — all the lures, in other words, that art traditionally uses to draw us in. The Many Moods and Pleasures of Judd’s Objects 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

An iceberg is a huge metaphor, and Jones cleverly establishes the narrative long before its central subject appears, which allows its impending arrival to set off reverberations in advance. A Climate-Crisis Novel Offers True-to-Life Snapshots of Survival 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

The Song of Solomon The Old Testament's ecstatic lover finds a walled garden as the only adequate metaphor for his beloved. Ten of the best: walled gardens 2011-01-29T00:06:17Z

Was that idea of “claiming” yourself always meant to be a metaphor? Beautiful Creatures Authors: In Defense of Young Adult Paranormal Genre Fiction 2013-02-13T19:00:07Z

And yet, as a metaphor for our world today . Is ‘The Little Stranger’ a ghost story or an allegory about Donald Trump? 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

In the science fiction and speculative fiction genres there are two dimensions, metaphor and reality. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

Ultimately, he says, none of that is quite right: the flies are actually metaphors, “glosses,” a way of not merely looking at nature, but reading it as if it were a book. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

These are poets of big ideas, poets who used metaphor — often based in the natural world — to build a bridge or open a door. Perspective | Mary Oliver did something rare: She made poetry accessible. That’s not a bad thing. 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Most notably, American soldiers began to proclaim they were fighting for "mom and apple pie," an assertion that firmly established the dessert as a metaphor for the United States. Why apple pie isn’t so American after all 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, many of the details of “Year of Yes” are obscured beneath layers of extraneous, repetitive prose and unnecessary metaphor — the sort we’ve come to expect from Olivia Pope or Meredith Grey. In ‘Year of Yes,’ Shonda Rhimes shares tips from her own enlightenment 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

So I figure that's a metaphor for my experiences in the music industry. The return of Ant music 2011-02-23T08:29:32Z

But it's a prescient metaphor for many of the issues that Jace Clayton tackles in his book about modern encounters among music, culture and technology. In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

In some ways, Obama’s desires for a stable home and family are quite conventional, and she uses the conventionally feminine, domestic metaphor of knitting to describe them. Reading Michelle Obama's "Becoming" as a Motherhood Memoir 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

These women are tough, and not in a glamorous way: Their expectation of mistreatment is no pose and no metaphor. Review: In ‘queens,’ 11 Immigrant Women and What They Left Behind 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

Or maybe the right metaphor in the season of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” would be Quidditch? In a Slim Season, the Tonys Show Love to Brits, Classics and Sponges 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

In a way, that image is a nice metaphor for the spotlight newly trained on her. It’s a Good Time to Be Reba McEntire 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

To borrow the well-worn metaphor of another Briton, philosopher Isaiah Berlin, Brown was the fox and Wintour was the hedgehog in their slow march to the top. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Which might be a harsh but accurate metaphor for our current president, come to think of it. The offensive movie cliche that won't die 2010-09-14T13:01:00Z

To judge by their opposing interpretations of a metaphor borrowed from geometry — the asymptote, whose lines approach without ever intersecting — the answer to that might not be an easy yes. Playing a ‘Game’ to Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Race 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Poetry tries to make the unrelatable believable, tangible through metaphor, comparison and story. What’s with all the viral poems? Why we turn to verse in a time of war 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The national image is essentially a metaphor, and that metaphor operates differently in the United States than outside. After Senate’s report on CIA interrogation tactics, it’s time to see who we really are 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Alfred de Vigny’s “Death of the Wolf” becomes a metaphor for the life and stoic philosophy of a man resigned to being a silent loner. | 'Farewell': Emir Kusturica in Christian Carion?s Spy Film 2010-07-22T21:46:00Z

The external world is mined for metaphors to match the inner lives of the characters. ‘Close’ Review: This Boy’s Life 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Whether intentionally or not, the election material echoes the family drama, building a metaphor of America as a declining patriarchy founded by men who were flawed but at least kept their businesses running. Louis C.K.’s ‘Horace and Pete’: Mournful and Unshakable 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

Emotions are processed in nontraditional ways and metaphors confound him. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

The azulejos traditionally decorated churches, monasteries, and residences of the rich and powerful in Brazil and function in her work as a metaphor for a mixing of cultures, by force or by desire. Waves of Dark History Break on an Olympic Pool 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Fortunately, however, rather than simply being shoddy, unprofessional practice, my notes are in fact ... a metaphor. Edinburgh comedy notebook: It's official ? Dave loves Nick 2011-08-25T11:37:04Z

It also references musical metaphors of mixing and remixing that underscore the hip-hop culture articulated by many of his subjects. Bold, provocative art that looks like money 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

People were not interested in climbing them, reaching their peaks was not yet an expression of the primary metaphor up = good/down = bad. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z

Songwriters are keen on using inanimate objects as thinly veiled metaphors for emotion, not least because only dove, glove and .gov rhyme with love. Swim Deep, Gabrielle Aplin, Jai McDowall: this week's new tracks 2013-05-03T12:00:00Z

Wasted Opportunity: Sean and Emily take a helicopter ride to their own private island and not a single metaphor for a relationship being like a helicopter to ride to an island was made. The Bachelorette Watch: Blue (Ball) Curacao 2012-07-10T12:30:14Z

The play uses a documentary style and food metaphors to explore stories of torture and punishment from around the world. Belarus Free Theater Returns to New York With 'Trash Cuisine' 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

“The style is a metaphor for the subject,” explained the historian Bettany Hughes, who headed the Booker judging panel, “subtly resisting clichés of race, slavery and gender.” The First Arabic Novel to Win the International Booker Prize 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

For a moment, this curious underground world seemed the perfect metaphor for Slovenia itself. Slovenian Rhapsody 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z

But my metaphors are martial for a reason; this is a comedic combat zone. “I don’t strive to be offensive”: Trevor Noah tells Salon how his “Daily Show” will be different from — and similar to — Jon Stewart’s 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

"The old man is writing a brilliant Holocaust allegory where the animals are a metaphor for the Jews," Henry told his wife. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z

And what they're eager to get across is both the garment's and the character's unsuitability, the one a metaphor for the other. Bestselling writers know that image counts 2013-05-16T16:19:29Z

It’s like the Tinkerbell metaphor you give in the film, “If you believe . . .” “I reject the word ‘hoax'”: Laura Albert opens up about creating JT LeRoy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

What are the dangers of metaphor, both in the woman’s life and in fiction in general? Clare Sestanovich on Desire and the Dangers of Metaphor 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

DNA is often called the "blueprint" of life; that's a good metaphor. Rules for writing: block that metaphor! 2013-05-23T14:40:46Z

“Veep’s” writers found an apt metaphor in the season just ended for the shallowness of her concept of leadership. In Washington, the drama never ends

The way the cricket bat taps a ball, and makes it sail an improbable distance, becomes, in Stoppard’s hands, a metaphor for writing. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

“Explorers” is about something secretly profound, Hawke says, and “it’s a metaphor, I think, for how all of us think. ‘ Nearing 50, Ethan Hawke’s latest radical transformation — violent abolitionist John Brown — suits an explorer of ‘intense faith’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

One of his favorite headlines: "World's largest metaphor struck by iceberg." As God in 'An Act of God,' Sean Hayes has his OMG moment 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

But he added that these directors were translating the fear and paranoia that the drug war was generating into other genres, like horror movies and science fiction, using them as metaphors for the current situation. Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Reflects Mexican Drug War 2012-01-15T04:27:18Z

And it’s in the final moments that Mr. Jasperse reveals his most potent metaphor. Review: Dance That Playfully Brings Art History to Life 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

As metaphors for inspiration go, I prefer the lightbulb. Christmas cards allow us to say much less to a greater number of people 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

He loves Mailer as an artist, he says, because Mailer makes the most beautiful metaphors in the business, “as many as a dozen on a single page worth analyzing.” Review: ‘The Jeweler’s Eye,’ by William F. Buckley Jr. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But then there’s a lot of things about, say, Christianity, that I think many Christians, if pressed, would probably conclude were more resonant as metaphor than reality, like the virgin birth. Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

The digital era evolved another set of metaphors: “navigation,” from sailing, and “browsing,” from library reading, and introduced the once ubiquitous phrase “information superhighway.” Design That’s Got Users in Mind 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

They don’t get humans’ sophisticated use of irony and metaphor. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

“We need metaphors to deal with these new systems. We live our culture through stories.” Spot is the $74,500 robot dog of our dystopian dreams 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Up until this week’s episode of Mad Men, I assumed the man falling between skyscrapers in opening credits was strictly a metaphor. 'Mad Men' Recap: 'Lost Horizon' 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

In a wonderful use of metaphor, a researcher who helped pen the study said that reading to infants is as important as a polio vaccine. Read to babies every day, pediatricians now say 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

"I like the metaphor of death and rebirth." 'Made in L.A. 2014': Jennifer Moon continues phoenix rise at Hammer 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

“You get the general problem you’re dealing with and a unique metaphor and line them up,” he said. The direct line from ‘Taxi Driver’ to ‘The Card Counter’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

During years when crime and urban paranoia were spiking, the work might be seen as a creepy metaphor for vulnerability, but Mr. Acconci saw it essentially as an open-ended and in many ways optimistic narrative. Vito Acconci, an Artist as Influential as He Is Eccentric 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The not-quite-salad-niçoise is – to extend this rock group metaphor way past its breaking point – like a band’s classic first album. How to eat: tuna salad 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

As the show’s introductory panel-text eloquently puts it, Bravo’s work emphasized “a poetic sense of light, composition, and perspective that privileged mood and metaphor over documentation.” Photographers transcend in 2 new Frye shows 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Suhrkamp's illustrious authors are grappling for ever more exotic metaphors to attack one of the two, minority shareholder Hans Barlach, whom they describe as "a blunt automaton" and "an abyss of evil". Authors join tug-of-war at top German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag 2013-01-25T07:00:01Z

Pick your metaphor, but it was a weekend in which the holdovers kept going strong while the newcomers fizzled like damp fireworks. Box office: With 'Terminator Genisys' and 'Magic Mike XXL,' notes from an odd weekend 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Michelangelo muses on the nature of art in his verses: he uses sculpture as a metaphor. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z

“Illustrious Corpses” is based on the novel, “Equal Danger,” by Leonardo Sciascia, a Sicilian author who wrote often about the mafia, ultimately as metaphor. ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The sculptured grace of Shawn’s sentences and the invigorating slap of his metaphors ease some of the frustration inherent in a story that often seems to be chasing its own tail. Wallace Shawn's 'The Designated Mourner' gets new relevance in the Trump era 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Not to be undone Mr. Barkley interjected another metaphor that revealed little outside of a joke. Zaniness of 'Inside the N.B.A.' Doesn’t Depend on the Score 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

The bus a metaphor for the unpredictable journey of life. Monroe inmates drop defenses, act out journey of life 2013-05-03T03:52:42Z

"Maybe the garage sale is a metaphor for the mind," Rosler says. | A Garage Sale at MoMA 2012-10-26T21:00:52Z

Caitlin's voice is written as a narration from the future, but Vann gives her a sense of preteen naivete and filters her language and metaphors through the twinkling blue light of the aquarium. Novels focus on gritty realism, anger, loss, family dysfunction 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

“The metaphors in his work read true to humans. It’s not based upon languages. It’s based upon human reaction and response to his work.” Why Celebrities Are So Into the Artist Daniel Arsham 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

I would say the film is really a metaphor for a long-term relationship. Drake Doremus Narrates a Scene From ‘Equals’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The phrase means to lead a horse in a circle on the end of a long rein held by its trainer, and it certainly makes a neat poetic metaphor. Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2010-04-05T09:00:00Z

This novel turns the concept of the walking dead into a haunting and thoughtful metaphor for teens struggling to see their way to a brighter future. 7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Teens 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

And the show is likely to continue to use the metaphors of religious fervor and the end times to examine how we cope with loss. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Their impossible separation becomes a metaphor for human loneliness, but also for interconnectedness. The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z

All autoimmune diseases invoke the metaphor of suicide. Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth 2011-01-23T00:05:41Z

For Patrick Gleason, starring in a film about a professional wrestler who finds unlikely redemption at the end of his career was not just a new experience but a metaphor for his own life story. Chicago News Cooperative: From Behind Bars to Before a Camera 2011-06-19T06:48:06Z

But then there’s the other side of the coin, which Sheffield weaves into a metaphor for the series dangerous seductiveness: Why "Temptation Island" is back and "90 Day Fiancé" is having a moment 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

Their song Let Go, for example, might have been in danger of sounding like an updated Orinoco Flow were it not for the longing-as-heroin-addiction metaphor. New band of the day ? No 764: JJ 2010-04-12T14:37:00Z

Trash, seen in the foreground, becomes a visual metaphor for the worker as entirely expendable. Review | The American Worker: Exploited from the beginning 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

In “The Norm,” which came out in the early 1990s, Sorokin deployed a crude metaphor for state-spun propaganda: citizens are required to ingest packages of a foul-smelling brown fecal substance that the government distributes. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

I don’t know if that’s really what happened or if it’s a metaphor for how cinema works. Steven Spielberg Gets Personal 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

Such disintegrating glamour is a perfect metaphor for the desperate state of her career, but this is one of many things she chooses not to see. Review: ‘Music Hall,’ a Meditation in Stage Poetry by Jean-Luc Lagarce 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

One researcher says that describing his own mystical experience involved “metaphors or assumptions that I’m really uncomfortable with as a scientist.” A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Stromae’s video offerings are laced with metaphors and treated with deep — and sometimes even uncomfortable — imagery. Watch Belgian Superstar Stromae Decode His Most Eccentric Music Videos 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s simple enough to allude to the Arab Spring, but such an inspiring, frightening, still unsettled event demands a more surprising metaphor. Dance Review: ZviDance in ‘Dabke’ and ‘Coupling’ at New York Live Arts 2012-06-03T21:20:55Z

"Atlanta"'s dreamy cinematic style lends itself to finding an assortment of metaphors within each plot. This Juneteenth, "Atlanta" will give you all the insights you need on how America co-opts a holiday 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

I found that I couldn’t use any metaphors that I was used to, and I found myself constantly thinking of the character and saying, “How would she say it?” For Her Debut, Abi Daré Confronts ‘Dreams and Intelligence That We Kill’ 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

No. Fire is way too complicated to use as an apt metaphor. Sitting down with "Bellflower's" creator 2011-08-02T20:03:00Z

So their parents moved to North Star Road, a neat metaphor for the Biden ethos: Joe was the family’s north star, and everything pretty much revolved around him for the rest of his life. Analysis | Ten things we learned from the new Valerie Biden Owens book 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Still, Cronenberg got the last word when asked if a scene in which a film trophy is wielded as a weapon by one character serves as a metaphor for how award season brutalizes actors. Cannes: Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars, a (sort-of) Hollywood satire 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

“I began to see the buildings’ gradual collapse and, in many cases, disappearance altogether as metaphors for the passing of time and fading of a way of life,” Taylor writes. An artist captures the ‘ghost voices’ of abandoned houses 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

His comeback single contains plenty of food-as-sex metaphors with a brilliantly catchy backing track. Songs that are hungry and horny 2010-04-27T11:56:00Z

He always felt that musical instruments were a metaphor for the female body. SAM snagged a show that is big for art lovers, could be big boost for museum 2010-10-03T02:07:00Z

Vast, ungraspable and ever changing, oceans are powerful metaphors in Buddhism. Eric Ripert: the Buddhist Michelin star chef who changed my life 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

But I use a lot of metaphors, so they’re not exactly illustrations of what’s going on, but often my mood and my thinking does tend to be affected by what is happening around. Art as a Means of Fighting Prejudice 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The disjointed facade conjures Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1974 “Splitting,” in which he used a power saw to cut a suburban house in half — a metaphor for the generational divide of the time. Architecture Review: A Unified Home for Arts Education, With a Split Right Down the Middle 2011-03-09T23:05:21Z

In Edinburgh to introduce his book Is That a Fish in Your Ear, he joins Charlotte Higgins along with James Geary to muse on the particular challenges posed by metaphor. Guardian Edinburgh Books Festival podcast: Translation and Metaphor 2012-08-18T09:25:43Z

Like “Brown Sugar,” it was a metaphor, or a double entendre, if you will. D’Angelo and Bobby Seale on the Past and Future of Political Protest 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

I don’t mean books about autism, but, rather, novels that include characters who have autism or that use symptoms of the disorder as a metaphor or plot device, or to stylize language. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

"It's a metaphor for our lives," Mulligan says. A modern movie star is born 2011-01-22T00:04:10Z

But in Mr Domingos’s zeal to simplify he constantly invents metaphors that grate or confuse. Machines for thinking 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Amid it all was Michael Burke, the brand’s chief executive, alternately discussing the exhibit — “everything is on four wheels, which is a metaphor for the company” — and, when asked, the Greek situation. Versace, Dior and the Reality Gap 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Any script so rich in metaphor requires an approach that illuminates what’s between the lines. In ‘The Baltimore Waltz,’ whimsy, sadness are out of step 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Jazz artists never worried about recycling old tunes, so the metaphor of improvisation was also an argument about his painting. Stuart Davis=jazz: An equation that doesn’t explain this chilly modern master 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

On EBay you can buy boxes of stained glass remnants, so I thought it’d be interested to hang them as weeping willows — a metaphor of creating something new out of something broken. L.A. artist Marnie Weber reflects on why monsters hold such power for women 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

“The metaphor I use is iTunes and the idea that once people were able to buy the song versus the album, that was really a big change. People are interested in flexibility.” Can this man save the Pasadena Playhouse? 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a metaphor for his inaction, and a feeling of guilt where he neglected his family. Jordan Peele on a Truly Terrifying Monster: Racism 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The metaphor was potent, the boy on the beach spectral. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

So the underlying metaphor is unclear: Is it how nostalgia is linked to places, or is it an elegy for the actual structures and neighborhoods that have changed? ‘Drifting Home’ Review: A Sinking Development 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Remembering that your people had ways, they had a science, they had ways of talking about the creator, had other idioms and metaphors. And it’s in the words that the remembering comes.” Shabaka and the Ancestors Are Making Their Own Jazz History 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Though heavy with metaphors — most important, the comet signifying climate change — its message is clear and not open to interpretation: Wake up! Can Works Like ‘Don’t Look Up’ Get Us Out of Our Heads? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

But many of Rich’s late poems seem to want to state their politics without grounding them in the life of the body, from which language learns its metaphors. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Clearly too much of a metaphor to maintain a material presence, he can only be seen when someone holds up a device in camera mode. ‘Come Play’ Review: Alexa, Find Me a Derivative Thriller 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

It felt like a startlingly on-the-nose metaphor for the strange act of going about routine tasks while the world dissembles. Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

One assignment to review spending time in a rowboat wound up with Forrest getting lost at sea, an apt metaphor for his overall journey. An unexamined life: “Review” returns for one last joke on its sadly hilarious host 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

In “Ode to the Beloved’s Hips,” she rockets through alliteration and other sonic devices as she plunders metaphor for rapturous praise: Poems of Love and Desire That Push Back Against Oppression 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

By now, however, the monster metaphor holds sway. We’re all trolls now, for better and for worse: How the Internet lost its prankster lulz and found its outrage 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z

There weren’t visual metaphors to adapt, save for a single roaring ocean at an emotionally tumultuous moment. Watch Movies in 4DX and You’ll Get an Education in Filmmaking 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The story, which takes on ancient Scandinavian myth as a metaphor for immigration and the sense of being an outsider, will be less mysterious once you actually sit down and watch the thing. The 10 biggest movie surprises of 2018, from Melissa McCarthy to ‘Mowgli’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Svensson has, quite stunningly, discovered in the natural and human history of the European eel a metaphor for his father’s life and a way to explore questions of knowledge, belief and faith. Review | Three audiobooks to listen to now 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

“The deep surprise of the ocean,” he replies sagely, providing a metaphor not only for life, but also for his father’s brand of filmmaking. Ross McElwee’s ‘Photographic Memory’ Captures His Life 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z

Alaska is an extreme metaphor for the idea of trying to live in balance with the world around us. ArtsBeat: A Father’s Wrath: Tom Kizzia Talks About ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’ 2013-07-24T18:12:36Z

And rather than using metaphors to keep such experiences hidden, Raye said it now feels “important to be honest about those things I kept in the darkness for so many years.” Raye, Tired of Music’s Waiting Game, Releases an Album at Last 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Instead, the album dropped, and we got a series of the most obvious sexual metaphors ever. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Katy Perry 2014-01-22T17:08:52Z

Hatched as part of marketing campaigns that cost millions of dollars, the catchphrases are heavy on the superlatives and metaphors, testing the boundaries between catchy and, well, contrived. Summertime … and the Sloganeering Is a Little Awkward 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

He was using the mailboxes as a metaphor of the easy, free exchange of ideas and information in an open society. Letters: Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships 2012-12-16T21:00:12Z

But the metaphor of the gateway should prompt caution, too, since one can go through a gate in two directions. The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

“The relationship that the audience has to someone like Marilyn and Scarlett in a lot of ways is a wonderful metaphor for Eddie’s perception of Catherine and his relationship to her.” 2010-01-06T08:21:00Z

What began as a genre exercise has morphed into a war cry, the metaphors making way for primal screams. Making America Gory Again: how the Purge films troll Trumpism 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

It's not really about cancer, though: the illness is a metaphor for bad love. The Antlers' kiss of death 2010-05-13T21:50:00Z

Nautical metaphors are inevitable in any large stage production, from its dramaturgy to its set construction, from talk of “getting on board for the journey” to the heavy workings of the stage machinery. Sting and Jimmy Nail on the Musical ‘The Last Ship’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

We swim in a stew of ready-made metaphors; the would-be poet need only skim the surface, rearrange a few bits, and the superficial reader will nod approvingly. ‘Here I Throw Down My Heart’: poems that force a fresh look 2012-12-07T00:49:04Z

It struck me while reading your book how rare it is to read truly original and startling metaphors. At home in exile: Vi Khi Nao on her experimental novel 'Fish in Exile' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

It has become a metaphor; but for some, it’s also a falsehood. Perspective | Washington has turned upside down and inside out in a time of protest 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

In his screenplay, Robert Towne develops two dominant metaphors; the first centres on water. Chinatown: No 1 2010-10-17T10:55:00Z

In this case, poetic metaphor loses too much in translation to the stage. Clash of poetry titans at Odd Duck Studio 2011-11-29T05:35:17Z

“For lack of a better metaphor, on a bright sunny day, the shadows get very clear.” A legendary show’s turbulent beginnings: How ‘Star Trek’ almost failed to launch 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Now, in the early 21st century, SF provides writers with a rich set of ideas and metaphors to explore the incredible complexity of the modern era. China Miéville was the star turn at the Edinburgh International Book festival 2012-08-24T14:52:58Z

It helps that Jell-O is such a potent metaphor. In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Protesters placed a giant sculpture of a toilet in front of the Bolshoi Theater and threw his books in it, a fecal metaphor that Sorokin said reminded him of “one of my own stories.” He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

Like all of the series’s best episodes, it functions as both fantastic tale and elegant metaphor, searching out the limits of language. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

“Idioms, puns, nuances, inferences, metaphors, allusions and sarcasm are lost” on children with autism, Nothbohm writes. 7 Things Every Kid with Autism Wishes You Knew 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

She rarely reaches for metaphor, simile, the bon mot or the mot juste. Review: Rebecca Makkai’s ‘Music for Wartime,’ Stories With Echoes of Loss 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Making things more modern, Rhys-Davies explains the events surrounding King James I's 1604 commissioning of the version of the Bible that would bear his name with lots of sports metaphors. The weird world of straight-to-DVD Christian film 2011-04-16T15:01:00Z

I’ve spoken of his skill with metaphor; here it’s displayed on every page, not just in grand conceits like the prison but in descriptions and turns of phrase tucked away in the humblest of places. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 3: Little Dorrit 2012-02-03T18:42:02Z

The funny thing about political cartooning is, yes, there are many tempting clichés, but sometimes those clichés are the best metaphors. When a cartoonist becomes a hero: Rob Rogers on losing his job for making fun of Donald Trump 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

The film undercuts its argument with an abundance of inflammatory language and cheesy graphics — lots of animated planes dropping bombs as a metaphor for the destruction of American jobs and such. Movie Review: ‘Death by China,’ Documentary Directed by Peter Navarro 2012-08-23T23:59:57Z

With Written In The Stars, Tinie Tempah successfully attached a hippy astrological metaphor to his own rise from the "ghetto" to the penthouse. This week's new singles 2011-03-12T00:07:30Z

The choice of this particular metaphor is a serious failure of imagination by Mr. Braff, who should know a cliché when he sees one. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

It also acts as the film’s central metaphor. Chronicles of the years of fire 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The central metaphor — that Black women are literally falling apart — is assiduously explored, but the issues that might give it heft are left, like Angela and Odessa, buried in the sand. Review: In ‘sandblasted,’ Seizing the Day. Also the Nose. 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

How it was it, in so many ways, a touchstone, a metaphor, for dancing and for dancers? How working in a strip club taught "Neon Girls" author lessons about unions and solidarity 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

The show is unrelentingly dark, both in story, theme and visuals, with many scenes so dim, it's difficult not to feel like it's all supposed to be a metaphor. "See" recap: Manure, rain and still no war 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

The city, as he saw it, was evolving into a sensitive organism — or, to use a mechanical metaphor, a highly sophisticated robot, capable of responding to human needs. William J. Mitchell, Architect and Urban Visionary, Dies at 65 2010-06-16T05:19:00Z

“America could be a metaphor, but it isn’t,” you write. Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Her most heartbreaking moment, and telling that Winehouse's chosen metaphor for love was a pastime that could be addictive and destructive. A losing game 2011-07-24T18:15:01Z

Basically, the whole thing's an extended metaphor for the civil rights movement, with a three-foot creature called Dobby standing in for Rosa Parks. The great Harry Potter viewing marathon 2011-07-08T23:11:05Z

“I hate piggy banks, and the problem begins with the metaphor itself. Pigs are dirty, and they eat a lot, so piggish behavior isn’t something to aspire to,” writes Lieber. 8 Simple Ways to Avoid Raising Spoiled Kids 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

She was talking about domestic violence, and yet it could have been a metaphor for the way that women like her are using social media daily to make their voices heard. Behold the Power of #Hashtag Feminism 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

But there's a serious subtext to the silliness, and the metaphors are brought back down to earth for a satisfying landing. I'm So Excited, The Eye Of The Storm, Gimme The Loot: what to see at the cinema this week 2013-05-04T05:00:12Z

Lately, that sausage metaphor has seemed particularly apt: the "ingredients" don't get much more unpalatable than the revelations surrounding the phone-hacking scandal. An Englishman in New York 2011-07-23T23:04:11Z

We’re mixing our metaphors, so let’s just go to the scene: This is what it feels like at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

But it’s also a metaphor for life itself: not an isolated event but an activity to be engaged in, through dry spells and misfires and, sometimes, moments that overwhelm you with their sheer magnificence. Review | It’s my last review as The Post’s classical music critic. Here are my parting thoughts on the NSO. 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

In the course of the 19th century, American still life painting transformed from a literal and provincial medium into a locus of visual metaphor and artistic experimentation. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

And the show’s writers seem to be turning the central premise into some sort of metaphor for the Trump era. ‘Designated Survivor’ Pivots From Thriller to Political Mirror 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

My notes on the toad did exhibit some of Michaux’s incoherence, though even in that initial attempt at fashioning an account I found myself reaching helplessly for metaphor. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

It’s a metaphor for the risks this season has taken, and not just because–get it?–Louie literally pushes a button. REVIEW: Louie Watch: Going All In 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

"I meant it more as a metaphor...my friends are his friends," she told BuzzFeed of her initially writing that her beau was "dating my friends." Man sparks Twitter debate after buying flowers for girlfriend's best friend 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

It might almost be a metaphor for the state of the Church of England. Lambeth Palace to exhibit 400 years of religious and royal treasures 2010-05-12T17:31:00Z

Now that I think of it, gumbo just might be my favorite metaphor for this project, and indeed for the influence of so many rich cultures upon American cuisine. One nation, in all its flavors, captured on these pages 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

“Jazz is both a metaphor and an actual fact,” said Ms. Coffin, who organized the show with Stephen Harrison of the Cleveland Museum, where it will travel in September. A Jazz Age Exhibition With a Syncopated Sweep 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

But I think it came about as a kind of metaphor for that which is most demonized and ostracized, that which is most feared and loathed. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z

One feat of that volume, from 2014, was to establish an analogy between the mechanics of empathy and those of metaphor. Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Woody Guthrie - Little Black Train – Love the metaphor, love the vituperative edge to the lyrics. Readers recommend: Songs about concerts 2010-05-20T23:01:00Z

The collages could easily be a metaphor for Soderbergh’s films, with their elegant angles, cool modernist surfaces and satisfying puzzle-solver’s click. Steven Soderbergh: 'Film-making is like sex. If I accidentally give someone else pleasure, that's fine' 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

In “Aftershocks,” Owusu’s reconstruction is fractured by design, with a guiding metaphor of seismic shifts; its sections are titled “First Earthquake,” “Foreshocks,” “Faults,” “Aftershocks” and so on; definitions of seismological terms appear between them. Review | Nadia Owusu’s ‘Aftershocks’ is a moving tale of identity, loss and finding home 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

In other words it's a metaphor for the film industry. Neeson is a real action star in suspenseful 'Unknown' 2011-02-17T12:31:00Z

Patterson adroitly zigzags in time, threading the women’s journeys with subtle detail and embellishing them with metaphors specific to each character. First Novels Tackle Sexism and Prejudice, Past and Present 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The corruption of innocent flesh — by hickeys and herpes and worse — might be a heavy-handed metaphor, but when it’s rendered this gorgeously, who can complain? Review: ‘Kill Me Please,’ a Summer of Murder and Teenage Kicks 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Acclaimed in 1990 for its accurate portrait of a Church of England in crisis, it now seems a perfect metaphor for British institutional life. Racing Demon ? review 2011-02-17T17:06:52Z

They’re usually the only two humans visible for miles, and their West isn’t a metaphor: It’s a workplace with open skies and rolling hills, and a cabin to bunk down in. ‘Bitterbrush’ Review: Alone on the Range 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

It's an ugly metaphor, but I always compare it to a dead baby: it looks perfectly fine, but it does not have one moment of life. Stephen Sondheim, composer – portrait of the artist 2012-11-27T19:30:01Z

Her looming presence in the living room is a visual metaphor for the internet's intrusion into his life. Wonderland – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-30T17:14:01Z

“One of the things that happened was, I started to think of the Rapture as an amazing metaphor for loss, and particularly sudden loss,” he said. ‘The Leftovers,’ About a Small Town’s Loss, Comes to HBO 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, perhaps the metaphor continues, and it's the spiritual possession of a divine presence that is alluded to. Poem of the week: Bird on a Briar by Anonymous 2013-03-25T10:53:30Z

And the word “rides” is neither an exaggeration nor a verb reliant on metaphor. Broadway review: Extraordinary puppets make heart of 'War Horse' beat 2011-04-15T00:43:39Z

Two wall pieces by Charles Harlan consist of found chunks of trees that have grown around bits of razor wire or chain-link fencing — vivid metaphors for acceptance. Art Exhibitions From Chelsea to the Lower East Side 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Is this a metaphor for an enslaved woman’s urge to liberation? Wenders' Pina: Dance Crazy 2011-12-29T09:58:22Z

Black women’s stories become useful metaphors for Ofglen and other white handmaids. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1, Episode 3: Gender Treachery 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The title "Hummingbird" refers to the surveillance drones used by armed forces and is a metaphor for observation and judgment throughout the film. Hard man actor Jason Statham hopes new film shows softer side 2013-06-18T12:58:38Z

As a harbinger of change and where things are going, there’s no better metaphor. It’s Telfar’s World. We’re Just Living in It. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

It is this mistaking of one thing for another that leads us to the world of metaphor, of dreams, of poetry. Mark Cousins: the kids stay in the picture 2013-05-20T18:00:02Z

Some of her best bits take the shape of an elaborate metaphor dragged out indulgently. Maria Bamford’s New Special Is a Kind of Inspired Gibberish 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Obermaier's technological, 21st century Rite is a metaphor for the new, the uncertain, the future: as such, it is truly in the spirit of the original. The Rite of Spring: still crazy after all these years 2011-02-03T22:30:01Z

Is that a metaphor for your experience of working in the film industry?The film world's not as harsh as that! Gemma Arterton: 'Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times' 2013-05-11T23:05:25Z

Missing from the list are more cerebral activities, like representing, imagining and symbolizing, as well as concepts associated with artistic creativity, like aesthetics, metaphor and transcendence. Art Review: ‘Richard Serra: Early Work,’ at David Zwirner 2013-04-18T21:06:14Z

“I hate that, when they discontinue something that’s really good,” she said, perhaps stumbling onto a metaphor for her own sporadic place in pop culture. The Power of Grace Jones 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The piece opens with a woman sitting on stage at a desk with a typewriter, facing a wall: a nice metaphor for those of us familiar with the blank page. Review | Talking to myself: Two ways of looking at Carrie Mae Weems’s new work 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

On the level of metaphor, it depicts Promethean Man in revolt against the Almighty. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z

“The metaphor often used is of a spellchecker on a computer: if you don’t have it, you might have a spelling error in your document. The limitation of that metaphor is, nobody dies.” ‘I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for mastectomies 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

And for years I've remembered the way that single biscuit looked, fresh from the oven, lightly steaming and golden brown, as a visual metaphor for isolation. Baking our way through survival 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

Indeed, there is very nearly the opposite, delivered by a writer with a full command of the English sentence and an electric talent for metaphor. A Poet Traces Her Personal Obsessions, in Prose 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

The veterans chorus put together for “The Falling and the Rising” serves as both a significant step and a metaphor for Path with Art and the participants. Seattle Opera’s new production tells the stories of soldiers — and features a chorus of local veterans 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

And he provides a wealth of revelatory yet practical statements on subjects as diverse as metaphor and symbolism, negative capability, and associative movement. Stop dissecting a poem as if it were a dead frog 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The love affair plays out in a set of variations, or, to use Mr. Payne’s metaphor, as an array of different possibilities occurring across parallel universes. After ‘The Affair,’ Ruth Wilson Hits Broadway in ‘Constellations’ 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

And this is abetted by the film, for Super 8 is not just the look of the past, it's the medium and metaphor of memory. Kutlug Ataman 2010-04-10T23:06:00Z

Laurent Pelly’s staging of Massenet’s opera originated at the Royal Opera in London, where, according to one quaintly mixed metaphor in the British press, it “triggered” a “shower of plaudits.” The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

By the season's end, this 10-episode ruse is less of a coming-out metaphor than one about loyalty in any long-term relationship, including one bound by a verbal contract between a gentleman and his vampire. The harder coming out stories on "What We Do in the Shadows" aren't what you think they'd be 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z

In his “Sanctuary,” a massive star-field of flickering orbs seems to float off into the vastness of space — clearly a metaphor for these lives cut short by AIDS. Fort Worth’s Modern Museum of Art hosts exhibit of ’80s New York art

For instance, in "Black Astronaut" – a 2021 Apple Music Exclusive – the rapper Saba continues the tradition of hip-hop artists who write about celestial matters as metaphors to describe limits placed on their earthly existence. Why Gil Scott-Heron’s "Whitey on the Moon" still feels relevant today 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Buffalo fans this Sunday suggested Hamlin’s recovery was a metaphor for the resilience of a city battered by storms, decline and crime. How Damar Hamlin’s Recovery Allowed Us to Breathe 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

“It’s a physical and mental metaphor, but also a spiritual one.” Marina Abramovic Comes Home, and Comes Clean 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

And I always approach design with those forces in mind—they are a metaphor for human aspiration. Steve Wynn 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z

Phife was as sharp as ever here, full of his slick sports metaphors, and also serious about structural social inequality, as on “Whateva Will Be”: A Tribe Called Quest Returns to a Changed World With Joy and Grief 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

On metaphors: “It strikes me that a shopping cart, in general, is an ‘easy’ icon to design in that it’s a concrete noun where you don’t need to reach for a metaphor to symbolize it.” Makers: Grocery Shopping on Speed 2011-12-17T03:36:14Z

The architect Will Bruder, chairman of the prize jury, said: “He plays with metaphor, poetry and an understanding of his native Riga. It’s heroic, allegorical, and contains a power and conviction about its space.” Gunnar Birkerts, Architect, Dies at 92; Gave Shape to the Unexpected 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

When you learn that the fences are on the Mexican border, the piece becomes a visceral metaphor for the experience of feeling, or being, trapped, that is now the fate of so many undocumented immigrants. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The baron is due back the next day, so there are meals to plan, boots to shine and other metaphors about one's relative status in life to polish. In 'Miss Julie,' Liv Ullmann is too faithful to Strindberg play 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Radical writing is often described as being at the intellectual barricades, but here at the protest, metaphor became reality. Books on the frontline of the student protests 2010-12-10T15:41:00Z

Nick thought she did “fiancée kinds of things” in the Fantasy Suite, which is not a metaphor I am willing to unpack. RECAP: The Bachelorette Watch: Andi Makes Her Choice 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

After a while, it becomes clear that the tightrope is also a metaphor, standing for the existential risk inherent in every serious instance of playing. Movie Review: ‘Peter Brook: The Tightrope’ Follows the Theater Director 2014-01-30T23:35:57Z

It does art a disservice to say it must work as a metaphor. A Separation can't be divorced from Iranian politics 2011-07-05T12:13:51Z

Its presence, like the looming solar eclipse, warns us of heavy-handed metaphors but not of the intoxicating beauty with which they will be expressed. 'The Afterlight': loss and alienation in farm country 2011-09-01T19:17:08Z

He has a metaphor in the meteor shower but hasn’t yet found a dramatic reason for it to exist.   Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Well, let me explain this by using a really sophisticated cinematic metaphor that originated in “The Devil Wears Prada.” The Return of the Cannes Film Festival 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Circus metaphors have been turning up often in opera productions of late. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

She keeps returning to her chosen metaphor, looking for the fault lines, closing in on the epicenter. In ‘Aftershocks,’ a Search for Home in a Life Around the World 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Sometimes he seems interested in using the relationship between spy and author as a metaphor for the intricate dance of concealment and trust that goes on between a reader and a writer. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – review 2012-08-23T07:00:02Z

Choreographer Sarosi Nay maintains a clever balance between the joy of physical virtuosity and the harrowing metaphors it's asked to carry. Rouge – review 2012-07-26T11:38:09Z

I took it to mean that the stiffness of the concrete was a metaphor for political resistance to Trumpism. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

But — to stay with a culinary metaphor — this sampling of our arts photography offers a taste. In the Moment: Photographs From 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Q: Both "Room" and "The Little Stranger" use architecture in intriguing ways: as an existential presence, to use your phrase, as metaphor and to enhance a mood of claustrophobia. Is ‘The Little Stranger’ a ghost story or an allegory about Donald Trump? 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Wolf makes better use of the technical language of his craft, finding in it metaphors for the rest of us. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

“Friday Night Lights,” explicitly in its gridiron metaphors and implicitly in its characters’ destinies, is an instruction in the dangers of refusing to barrel through one’s limitations. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

There were so many beautiful metaphors I couldn't use, because I realised Patrick Bateman would never use them in a million years. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z

Wong uses it as a metaphor for the urban jungle, where people live cheek by jowl but are still lonely and isolated; the beautifully blurred time-lapse photography does the job, too. Top 10 films set in Hong Kong 2012-07-04T11:00:00Z

This mood of stasis makes “The Leftovers” an especially apt extended metaphor for the economic recession of 2008—a kind of cultural apocalypse that produced conflicting, ambivalent results. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Onstage he is mute, methodically enacting visual metaphors. Review: Ali Moini’s ‘Lives’ Tracks an Artist’s Personal History 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

This sequence can be seen as metaphor for the transformative effect that the “Dark Knight” comics, created by the artist and writer Frank Miller, have had on the 76-year-old Batman superhero. ‘Dark Knight III: The Master Race’ Comic Book Prompts Reflection and a Look Ahead 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

The Mystery Show Case #3: Belt Buckle This turns out to be a fitting metaphor for what Blumberg is seeking to do with Gimlet Media. Alex Blumberg's podcast revolution is just beginning. NPR: this is your warning 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

The lingua franca of stand-up is rife with mortal metaphors: “I died out there,” “I slayed ’em.” Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z

“Bull Durham,” a musical making its premiere at the Alliance Theater here, adapted from the 1988 movie written and directed by Ron Shelton, hits a solid double, to work that sports metaphor again. ‘Bull Durham,’ a Musical Adaptation of the 1988 Movie 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Before she became a comedian, Michelle Wolf was a high school track star whose experience as a high jumper taught her a lasting metaphor about life. Michelle Wolf’s Next Gig Is Hard Work: Making Washington Laugh 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

As Jamie Andrews points out in his introduction to the published edition, it is not difficult to see the play as a metaphor for the persecution of homosexuals in 1950s Britain. Personal Enemy 2010-06-29T22:20:00Z

It's a metaphor, I thought, for the new Marjorie, still finding its groove. Well-prepared, inventive fare showcased at the new Marjorie on Capitol Hill 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z

But the overarching metaphor actually posits the newcomers as the interlopers bringing chaos to a stable environment. ‘Ozark’ on Netflix: This Lake Has Hidden Depths 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beachby Jean Sprackland So-called "nature writing" is the Olympics of metaphor production, requiring technical agility and testing the writer's stamina for simile. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z

Among the abundant talents possessed by Les 7 Doigts de la Main — the philosophizing acrobats whose delightful new show “Séquence 8” runs through Sunday at City Center — is a gift for subverting metaphors. Review: In ‘Séquence 8’ Acrobats Defy Gravity and Constrictive Words 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

For so long, so much about Michael Jackson won our awe, our pity, our bewilderment, our identification, our belief that he was a metaphor, an allegory, a beacon, a caveat — for, of, about America. Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

“It is a clever choice,” Kathryn Schulz wrote last month in The New Yorker, “reminding us that a metaphor never got anyone to freedom.” The National Book Awards Longlist: Fiction 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

But the accoutrement also functions as a handy metaphor for both the Penguin’s unparalleled ability to shield himself from trouble and the broad shadow the little man is casting across Gotham City. 'Gotham' Recap: All Hail the Penguin 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Lee points to “Advanced Falconry,” and its distinctly idiosyncratic metaphor for relationships, as the album’s creative breakthrough. | A Baroque-Folk Troubadour Takes Flight 2013-12-09T17:07:04Z

It’s a scenic backdrop ripe for theatrical metaphor. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

This plot point is essential to any substantial discussion of the film, because it’s also the movie’s central metaphor, a phantasmagorical image of the idea on which it runs: the notion of identity. Bruno Dumont’s Vision of a Confused, Far-Right, Alienated France 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

The crawl, slow and culminating in a dazzling shock, was a metaphor for the character’s arc as well as for the season of “Twin Peaks: The Return.” The power of David Lynch’s name: a long leash, a different kind of viewing 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

He’s strapped to a rotating board while knives are thrown at him, a metaphor that any young author can appreciate. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Bored to Death' 2011-10-10T11:00:29Z

And thus we have a pretty good metaphor for this episode, which, after 10 “Better Call Saul”-free months, is distressingly anticlimatic. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Premiere: No Seriously, Call Saul 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Her lyrics also delve further: to thoughts of heritage and identity in “Green & Gold” and to elegant extended metaphors like the ones she sang in a hushed ballad, “Wonderful”: Review: Lianne La Havas Sings of Love and Identity 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Sexual misconduct on “Survivor” is not a metaphor for sexual misconduct. How ‘Survivor’ Failed Its #MeToo Test 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

That void is a metaphor, it seems, for the control a refugee must relinquish. Review | Are you up for a 10-minute play in which your arm is inked? 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

“So there’s a beautiful metaphor to it being done with this particular set of actors.” 'Spring Awakening' Is to Return to Broadway in Deaf West Production 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

The metaphor is glaring: Though rings may prove a tree is old, they don’t reveal its whole story. For 115 years, one restaurant has fed the elite in Berlin and now Madrid. Nazis included. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

In an interview, the perfect metaphor comes to you but you don't want to use it because it'll give the wrong impression. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

"The Great Northwest" is an apt metaphor for this kind of exhibition, which surveys and constructs a narrative about a particular place and time. TAM's 10th Biennial captures art of our time, place 2012-02-02T21:16:20Z

We are lucky enough to enjoy freedom of speech, but when that becomes impossible, metaphor – in the form of art, be it visual or dramatic or literary – becomes the only way. Olivia Williams on Hollywood inequality: 'Nobody, until now, gave a damn' 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

And sports — or fitness/health/wellness, however you want to describe it — became a metaphor for independence and excellence. How Nike Won the Cultural Marathon 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Her sudden death last summer put an end to their hopes of working together on a road movie, intended as a metaphor that would draw the viewer into Bausch's world. 3D dance takes a great leap forward 2010-09-28T21:15:00Z

Cancer filled the void, but with darker metaphors of shame, external disfigurement, war. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

That doesn’t mean they won’t continue to rely on it for a ready store of metaphors. Apple and Amazon take two paths to the same conclusion: The tech companies owe nothing to the American city 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

It starts with jolly jazz in a Chicago speakeasy and ends by showing how protection rackets become a metaphor for political evil. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – review 2012-07-12T11:13:26Z

Oh no, she says, “You’ve got it back to front,” adding, after a vivid but unpublishable metaphor, “and your up side is definitely down.” Review: A Mythic Force Rages in the Welsh ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

The game of skill becomes a metaphor for the game of balance and comprehension implicit in many of Celmins’s other paintings and drawings. Review | Why is this genius artist only now getting a show worthy of her art? 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Michael Douglas' character, financier Gordon Gekko, returns to the high-finance morality tale, 23 years after his proclamation that "greed ... is good" became a metaphor for the downside of the financial boom of the 1980s. "Wall Street" sequel tops North America box office 2010-09-26T16:36:00Z

Well, there was also the part about how he should be in the cemetery with the rest of his family, which fit into the whole metaphor of how dying was making him more human. 'True Blood' Recap: Finale Says Farewell to Bad Things 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Part of the fun of "Racing" is seeing certain events interpreted and transformed through Enzo's imagination, filtered through mashed-up metaphors gleaned from diverse sources. 'The Art of Racing In the Rain' at Book-It: an amazing dog wagging his tale 2012-04-25T18:30:29Z

Morris’s concluding metaphors of fire suggest that he’s aware of Bannon’s catastrophically egotistical vision, but he doesn’t quite draw it into cinematic focus. “American Dharma,” Reviewed: Errol Morris Lets Steve Bannon Off the Hook 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

It is a winning metaphor, coming as it does in the midst of a terrible tumble, and is typical of a book chock-full of such moments of psychological acuity, physical action and natural beauty. A Trek Across Florida, Braving Deadly Swamps and Bounty Hunters 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

The purple purse, she explains, is a metaphor. Kerry Washington Carries a Purple Purse to Call Attention to Domestic Violence 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

It also gave her a metaphor for learning to accept oneself, lumps and all — or “building a muscle of acceptance and finding compassion for the sloppier, more complicated parts of ourselves.” Rose B. Simpson Thinks in Clay 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

The glue cooking in the rock, four sturgeons’ worth, may be an apt metaphor for the deep cultural connections shared by longtime campers. Traditions Revived at a Tribal Culture Camp 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

The light in the cave isn't much more than a metaphor for what the philosopher Adam Smith referred to as "the spark of humanity," the boundless potential that exists in every mind. 'Lost'-How Will It End? 2010-05-20T19:41:00Z

Finally, he borrows a metaphor from Homer to highlight what's wrong with our current ecosystem. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z

In hindsight I’m glad I chose it, though it wasn’t a metaphor for my family. An Oscar-Nominated Transgender Director on His ‘Authentic Self’ 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Still, it was preferable to the somber meditation on male body issues from Laura Brienza, “War Zones,” that employed metaphors of combat to explore anorexia. Theater: A Fringe Too Tame? Too Bad 2010-08-23T22:21:00Z

Further, the union of two bodies was a powerful metaphor for the chemical and spiritual bonding that led to the transmutations so eagerly sought through alchemy. Bartholomeus Spranger’s wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met

The acclaimed 2009 work “32 Rue Vandenbranden” is set among trailer homes in an icy, isolated mountain landscape — a metaphor for the lonely people who inhabit it. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

That’s a word we like to use when we talk about the rasp in someone’s voice, but few singers lived up to the metaphor’s paradox like Kenny Rogers. Perspective | Kenny Rogers made life’s rough edges feel smooth 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

In reading his portrait as a political metaphor, she had, indeed, connected it directly to life. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Somehow, the animal has become trapped in a deep watering hole, which, given the rain outside the theater and dankness inside, made it feel like a Cannes-specific metaphor. Critic’s Notebook: At Cannes Film Festival, Ducking Rain and Competition 2013-05-16T22:03:37Z

Neurologist Vilayanur Ramachandran theorizes that "the gene that produces synesthesia confers a propensity towards metaphor" and suggests that associations—murkily present for everyone—may "become more explicitly manifest" for people with synesthesia. Confessions of a synesthete: What it's like experiencing the alphabet in full color 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

Placed prominently at the entrance to the exhibition, its depiction of European traders as odd, strangely attired creatures reveals both fascination and befuddlement—an apt metaphor for such exchanges. East meets West 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps there is no better metaphor for growing up and becoming your truest self. Warwick Davis is the real hero of Gen X 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

The boxes function as metaphors too: for the need to look deeply, for the evil that can lurk beneath an innocuous surface, even for the notion that good things come in small packages. Spare Times for Children for June 7-13 2013-06-06T22:33:23Z

Weren't all psychiatrists in and of themselves mental pathologies, an umbrella metaphor for war, with Miss Dearth just another of his casualties It's Death. Digested read: Umbrella by Will Self 2012-08-19T15:00:00Z

At times the walls and ceiling close in, an eerie metaphor to show how these peoples are constricted by their fears and enmity. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z

That is what genre is, at its best: It’s the metaphor on top of the real emotions we all experience. Living While Black in ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

They use the topic as a metaphor, a scale on which to weigh and measure the assets and liabilities of humanity itself. Review: ‘Marjorie Prime’ and Jon Hamm: Ceaselessly Into the Past 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

You could say that such works represent a convergence of opposite kinds of consciousness: one that thinks rationalistically in the most abstract terms possible and one that cogitates by means of visual and poetic metaphors. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z

It is unclear, however, how deliberate this metaphor is and whether we are meant to embrace it or conclude that the narrator is projecting his psychology outward. Two Début Novels Explore How to Be Good 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

She added that Mr. Corden’s use of Asian foods on the segment defines which foods are considered mainstream, delicious or disgusting; food is a metaphor for what is considered normal. Funny or Racist? A Food Bit on James Corden’s Late Show Draws Ire. 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

The metaphor of a dumpster fire for the state of things seemed to lose its appeal as the Earth was, in fact, on fire. The Salzburg Festival Opens in Search of Elusive Peace 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z

Or to go back to Jonathan Adler’s metaphor, conservatives may be won the battle of the commerce clause, but lost the war for limited government. Closing the Window, Opening the Barn Door 2012-06-29T20:35:15Z

Of course, Harry goes nuts by the end, and destroys his entire apartment in the search for bugging devices – although Trump may see this not as cautionary but as a metaphor for “draining the swamp”. Six surveillance films to make Trump paranoid 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

With Gregory translating, I asked our new friends if they thought my cowboy metaphor made sense. Explorer: Along the Trail of Korea’s Mountain Spirits 2012-11-30T18:43:12Z

The perennial blooms not with flowers, but with metaphors. Review | In the galleries: Six artists go deep into the weeds 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

“On one side was the Kenyan state that harassed and ransomed the refugees with impunity,” Mr. Rawlence writes, when he finally indulges the metaphor in full. Review: In ‘City of Thorns,’ Ben Rawlence Tells a Refugee Camp’s Story 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Still running — deadline Monday, Aug. 31: our contest for a metaphor or meme to describe 2020. Style Invitational Week 1399: The lie-zy days of summer 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

We grasp for metaphors or analogues, such as history and memory, or growth and decay or revolution and retrenchment. Review | At the Whitney, the monumental works of Julie Mehretu begin to stack up 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

I was especially drawn to how Witmer takes a monster metaphor in unexpected directions as he explores what it means to grow up, and never leave, a small town. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

The scene also serves as a sly metaphor for what happens when an aging dancer is confronted with a younger, fresher version of herself. Luca Guadagnino Unleashes the Witchy Power of Modern Dance 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cuomo Cole added that she saw Newtown as a “metaphor” for all of America, given the number of towns and cities affected by mass shootings. The Sundance Film Festival Trains Its Sights on the Gun Debate 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Underneath the platform, the elephant’s back is blistered and raw — apt metaphors for the dark underbelly of Thailand’s elephant rides. Thai tourism fuels elephant trafficking 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

I acknowledge the unfortunate use of tropes and metaphors that are connected to misogyny. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

In a sense, those fight scenes, skillfully choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping, are but a metaphor in service to a parable of freedom and love. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The biblical allusion to the story of Moses is plain to see, only in this context the untethered basket is a visual metaphor for a people . . . but also, for escape. "Black Is King" continues Beyonce's immortalizing of the Black American experience through art 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Some plot developments are too random, and sometimes Callaghan pushes a dirty joke, or a metaphor, so far beyond plausibility that the impact is weakened. 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad': A playwright's raucous riff on sexism and body shame 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

If Brienne isn't a metaphor for modern women working in a man's world, I don't know what is. "Game of Thrones" recap: It's the last night in the world 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

While many of Mr. Stanford’s metaphors come from swimming, hunting, driving and fishing, his sensibility isn’t macho. Review: ‘What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford’ 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Yet no one quoted in the book can compete with Williams' astonishing gift for silky phrases and extravagant metaphor. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Lines two and three reinforce the metaphor: translated, they read "Blissful bird, take pity on me/ Or dig, love, dig thou for me my grave." Poem of the week: Bird on a Briar by Anonymous 2013-03-25T10:53:30Z

But a deeper and more troubling metaphor may be the house itself, which represents the limitations of an insular, exclusive and increasingly self-cannibalizing comic imagination. Movie Review: ‘This Is the End,’ With Seth Rogen and James Franco 2013-06-11T18:01:14Z

Vestiges of the “refrigerator mother” metaphor continue in literature. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

The apt metaphor is the bricklayer, with Jocelyn building her case little by little as a solitary worker. 'Broadchurch' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: It Takes Two 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

"Life and death, fathers and sons, community and faith... and the road being a metaphor for life." Estevez and Sheen find "The Way" after failed project 2010-09-16T18:50:00Z

Probably every baseball metaphor ever has already been extended in describing “Moneyball,” so the Bagger will just say it is doing well among viewers at home, where its DVD sales and downloads are high. The Carpetbagger: It's 'Moneyball,' Not Baseball 2012-01-19T19:30:03Z

But what is so remarkable is that these volcanoes remain so monumentally themselves no matter how theatrical the metaphor. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

It is a metaphor in cloth for the growing narrative of a Russian Goliath and Ukrainian David, of hubris and heroism, that is being played out in blood and arms. The Man in the Olive Green Tee 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

It shouldn’t work — none of it — not the metaphor, not the wild horse, not what it all means for the wild man at the center. ‘The Mustang’ Review: Where the Wild Things Roam. And Sometimes Break Out. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

With a heavy heart and an even more heavy-handed metaphor, I, Saleem, went to work in a pickle factory. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z

No doubt this helps keep the wood fire from wilting the customers like basil leaves, but it’s hard not to see it as a metaphor for the restaurant. A New Kind of Pie Fight: This Pizzeria Is at War With Itself 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

The surprise election result turns the series’ premise into an unintended metaphor. Review: On ‘The Good Fight,’ a Lawyer Claws Her Way Back to Normal 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

As I get older," says one tweet, "I'm less inclined to view litter on the breeze as a romantic metaphor for modern genderfluid love. Suede: 'Who says you can only do great stuff if you're damaged?' 2013-03-05T19:00:02Z

And ever since Trump started to dominate the electoral landscape, several productions have used “Julius Caesar” as a metaphor for the debilitating illness that pervades our body politic. Of Caesar, guns and trolls: The evil that men do 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, the suit was more than an outfit; it was a three-piece metaphor for a high-powered career path. Feminism’s next big step 2012-08-23T13:28:00Z

While this musical pivot 75 minutes into “Nemesis,” sounds odd for the first few scenes, it works as a metaphor. ‘Nemesis’ Review: A Philip Roth Adaptation Resonates 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

Is life in a block of flats with worn-out gods, who desperately look to find their own place in the world, a metaphor for our presence in the European Union? What they're reading in Poland 2011-04-04T07:00:02Z

It must be said that the director melds the past and the future together, mixing eras and metaphors in ways both hard-core fans and the completely uninitiated can enjoy and understand. 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' revives mutants' fighting spirit 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The book’s central metaphor is a description of Harold’s thought process as a room with one window and a riot of birds flying around. Steven Wright, Master of the One-Liner, Tries His Hand at a Novel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to make those jump-out-of-your-seat scares stretch for the series’ 10 hours, and there are times when you might wish that a ghost is just a ghost, not a metaphor for lingering childhood trauma. 10 Recent Netflix Originals Worth Your Time 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Instead, Favreau wrote Chef, a charming metaphor of a movie about a culinary whiz who gets bored cooking dishes he dreamed up years ago for a restaurant owner who won’t let him innovate. Jon Favreau’s Meals on Wheels 0002-11-30T00:00:00Z

It was a metaphor for not centering oneself when you are unaffected. Brandi Carlile opens up about overcoming insecurities, her latest Grammy win and her new memoir 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

The classical author Seneca used bees as a metaphor for writing poetry using imitatio. How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of "imitatio" to craft some of the most original songs 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

The exterior of Hadid's building is "tough" but "we talk about its blackness and hardness as a metaphor." Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z

Moving north, you pass a neighborhood where avenues named for U.S. states cross streets named for Native nations, the grid itself a metaphor for order and conquest. Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Has no one yet figured out that the piano roll is more than a metaphor for artificial intelligence? ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

“I think of myself as a person with a knack for metaphor. I think of myself as a person with the twist or the torque, that’s that little thing that some people have.” Patricia Lockwood likes to write in bed. 'Priestdaddy' is her memoir 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

It’s merely a stage, a metaphor for a relationship. If House Hunters Is Wrong, I Don’t Want to Be Right 2012-06-13T15:40:09Z

On Thursday he seemed most comfortable in songs that had a lot to say, that kept developing a thought or a metaphor; these were typically his own, and sung in Spanish. Rubén Blades at the Rose Theater 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

“Poetry is like a secret clouded in metaphor, but by transforming emotions into images, you make thoughts and feelings into an art form,” Brimhall said. Amelia Earhart’s long-hidden poems reveal an enigma’s inner thoughts 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

If the title also is a metaphor, it’s an especially apt one. Kristen Stewart: ‘I’m much more comfortable being uncomfortable.’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

And throughout that summer there was a serial killer whose brutality seemed a metaphor for what was happening to New York. That night the lights went out 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

He skillfully weaves scientific findings with stories of people, events, and the natural world, using clever analogies and metaphors. How Elastic Is Your Brain? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Its themes regarding nature, culture and consciousness may be heavy, but Mr. Robinson’s deft way with metaphor, which calls to mind the early Robert Gober, keeps things light and fresh. Art in Review: Nathaniel Robinson: ‘Outer Air’ 2013-01-17T22:50:00Z

This is a metaphor for writing poetry, I think. Orphic Paris, Part XVI 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Lawrence Hogan of Maryland, for example, was full of mixed metaphors. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

He stuck with the metaphor over the course of several hours on the Paramount lot, where "Glee" is taped on three soundstages. The nice guy who puts the mean into 'Glee' 2010-10-23T00:12:00Z

But then I took human anatomy and quickly learned that I was more interested in the heart as metaphor than as an actual body organ in my hands. This Week in Fiction: Sherman Alexie on the Strength of the Blue-Collar Worker 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

That Ezra suffers from glaucoma is a rather on-the-nose metaphor for his moral blindness. Bunkmates Turned Scam Artists Take Silicon Valley for a Ride 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Watching Hallmark in December this year feels like a metaphor for all of the good citizenship questions we’ve been asking ourselves: Must we watch yet more CNN guests debate the tax bill? We can’t take any more of 2017, so we’ve turned to the Hallmark Channel in desperation 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

His work — pictures that he transformed into metaphors — is featured in a group show, “Digital Darkroom,” at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. ArtsBeat Blog: Jerry Uelsmann's Analog Dreams 2011-12-12T20:15:28Z

White’s metaphor, I was going to take my trousers off, didn’t I have to be willing to accept all the consequences — the stares, the cackles, the indifference, the silence? Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z

The parallels between its story and recent political events are not lost on Hamilton, who admits the film "turned out to be a completely accidental metaphor". Connolly's 'joy' at being Outnumbered 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The New Zealand poet and essayist writes many sly ars poeticas in her collection — a lovely, profound debut that spins metaphors of its own creation and the segmented identity of the essayist, that self-regarding self. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The metaphor hits you over the brainstem five times harder than the beat. Perspective | Is Tiësto the Wayne Newton of the 21st century? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

What I wanted to do was to activate a metaphor, a way of saying: Give people the power to say what they want. Tania Bruguera on her art, her detentions and what happens next 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

And it works on the level of deeper metaphor. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z

That Frankensteinian image may be the best metaphor for the acquisition of power in “High Sparrow.” Recap: Game of Thrones Watch: The Royal Housewives of King's Landing 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Tshuma’s brilliant layering of competing images and metaphors is one of the many marvels of this wise and demanding novel. A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Lockwood’s internet novel, one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021, follows the life of a woman who becomes engrossed by “the portal,” a metaphor for our online social media world. New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘No One Is Talking About This’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

Riley uses tropes from sketch comedy and cartoons in order to turn extreme and antic metaphors into an apt representation of the grotesqueries that have come to pass as ordinary. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Ladislaw offers a metaphor that might well serve the present moment, in which English life is being reshaped to still indeterminate ends. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Although now, afterwards, you can make parallels to some of the metaphors in the movie and be like, "Oh my goodness, I guess that makes sense here as well." "Space Force" standout Ben Schwartz reflects on pandemic anxiety, career shifts, and Carrie Fisher 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

That conclusion would seem odd, as Kafka was a master at finding universal metaphors that have grown ever more powerful with time. Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis becomes Google doodle 2013-07-03T11:06:46Z

The operative metaphors in this case are the American Revolution and the colonial yeoman: Tom is an officer in a hastily formed militia that calls itself the Second Massachusetts, after the famous Continental Army regiment. Television Review: It?s Might Versus Right Versus Space Monster 2011-06-16T22:15:15Z

Noticing an extended metaphor looming, I suggest that maybe now she should be looking after the baby/album. Ethereal girl 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

Artaud’s piece presents this conflict between diametrically opposite cultural worlds as a metaphor of encounters among what he calls neuter, feminine and masculine dimensions. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

A metaphor lurks here: Donald Trump is a tornado, witlessly devastating the world that Michael Lewis has come to love and chronicle. Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

It helped to have Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiraling rotunda serving as an architectural metaphor for the path of life. When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends 2010-12-17T14:43:28Z

This rarely performed, folk-inspired choral piece – dealing with the transformation of a group of brothers into stags as a metaphor for their need to grow into independent adulthood – is memorably weighty for its 20-minute span. BBCSO/Robertson 2010-08-23T11:10:00Z

“This is the Hour of Lead—” she says, describing the hour with a metaphor of stasis, in which everything is frozen around her. A Plague of Snow 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Perhaps there hasn’t been enough time, and the coronavirus moves quickly and is now mutating, so its metaphors may change, too. Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Her songs, rich in metaphor and philosophical reflection, provide the substance of "Abbey Sings Abbey," an album released on Verve in 2007. Abbey Lincoln, 80, jazz singer, songwriter, actress dies 2010-08-15T04:14:00Z

It was metaphor he would return to again and again. Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-Born Artist of Immersive Installations, Dies at 89 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

The novel served up a deft metaphor for that abiding American question: Am I winning or losing? Home for the Holidays, for Better or Worse 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

“Our business is metaphors. Therefore our metabolism is different from the political world.” Museums Chart a Response to Political Upheaval 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

I hope it would: the story of an art forger, a metaphor for the lack of authenticity in all aspects of life, it rips along wonderfully in places. Has plot driven out other kinds of story? 2011-07-14T14:49:52Z

Is "White Christmas" a prophetic metaphor for climate change? From “White Christmas” to GoFundMe: The plucky American fantasy of only needing to put on a show 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

Ecology serves as a metaphor for the networked world—a world that’s too big to comprehend, too pervasive to evade, and too hypnotic to resist. The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Anderson takes a city almost universally overlooked and turns it into a metaphor for, well, everything. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

It is comical, but also a suitable metaphor for white power and white cowardice in the Jim Crow era. Art Review: Bill Traylor Finally Gets a Spotlight in New York 2013-07-04T23:46:01Z

Still, he notes there’s a deeper metaphor for his interest in vampires, which happens to align with zombies’ surge in popularity: “It’s about survival and thriving.” Why Popular Culture Is Still So Obsessed With Vampires 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

It all springs, as Keats once said of metaphor, like leaves from a tree. Sacred Carnality 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Many saw in these works a metaphor for 21st-century painting, though Ms. Schutz likes to talk about them as collapsing the distinction between artist and subject. Art Review: Dana Schutz at Neuberger Museum - Review 2011-10-06T23:56:06Z

“Liebesfrühling” turns the metaphor of spring inside out, locating in its verdancy memories that cause anguish, as Gerhaher’s voice rises to a pained pitch suffused with light. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

He didn’t set black shapes against white ones the way Barnett Newman did, conjuring a metaphor for the dynamic forces of darkness and light. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

These arachnids were called Maman, and though the spinning they represented was also a metaphor for the activity of art, Bourgeois made them in remote tribute to Joséphine, the put upon, patient, inventive, tireless mother. Louise Bourgeois obituary 2010-05-31T21:50:00Z

Michael Kors, with his usual quick thinking and colorful metaphors said, "Is that a giant Hershey Kiss?" "Project Runway" recap: What tools 2010-03-05T15:06:00Z

So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. Where Art Meets Trash And Transforms Life 2010-10-24T05:15:00Z

He throws curves, not that that is the right metaphor. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

In recounting his mescaline experiences, Michaux took the opposite tack, refusing the offer of metaphor to make sense of an experience he believed was beyond the power of words to convey. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

To extend the metaphor, I was not out of the nest just yet. Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

But underneath all the presentation, Young Thug has a gift for words and off-kilter metaphor. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z

The richness and diversity of dark tones enact the deep content of DeCarava’s art; they constantly flip between visual fact and a metaphor for difference of all kinds. The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

A third could consider artists’ use of light as material and metaphor. The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

What reads as a mundane mess is actually a metaphor. Jeff Colson, wizard of illusion, at Maloney Fine Art 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

The extended metaphor forces us to recognise how brutal the condition can be, and also how brutally institutions may handle it. Poem of the week: Rendition by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2013-01-28T13:02:28Z

Shepard's purpose is clear enough: to use fraternal division as a metaphor for unfulfilled American longings. Review 2010-05-19T00:01:00Z

This one is a good metaphor for my work process. Essential Arts & Culture: Reconsidering intermission, design per the NRA, L.A.'s last adult cinemas 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Helicopter parents are so determined to prevent their children from being possessed by vengeful ghosts, or ancient Babylonian deities, or whatever those things are metaphors for, that they micromanage their offspring’s childhoods out of existence. Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of 'kindergarten horror' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

“I win,” he said, using more sports metaphors. So Long, Medical Scrubs. Jesse Williams Is Ready to Play Ball. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Her voice-over imposes epiphanic plot points onto her journey that are reinforced by cheesy visual metaphors, as when she parachutes mysteriously into some scrubland or is shown diving into water in slow motion. ‘Born in Evin’ Review: No Place for a Baby, or Anyone Else 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

This novel’s ideas about shame, constraint, lust and abandon are as subtle as the sex is frank, conveyed through insinuation and metaphor. ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

As the main character says on the first page, as he searches for words to describe the wall of the title, “You look for metaphors.” Rising Seas, Migrants, War: A Timely Novel From John Lanchester 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

To change the metaphor, the film leads its characters and its viewers — pale-skinned critics very much included — down a path strewn with eggshells, some of which sit on top of land mines. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The old metaphor of canary in a coal mine, there's a reason why people say that. “They don't realize how deeply racial bias permeates”: Central Park birder on where liberals fail 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

The notion of superpowered beings as bearers of disease has been explored in films like “28 Days Later”; Mr. Roth himself demonstrated his penchant for illness as metaphor in “Cabin Fever.” Review: ‘Eli Roth Presents the Stranger,’ a Tale Steeped in Blood 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

To some extent this is a metaphor for Minter’s entire career. Marilyn Minter, an Artist Who Resonates and Repels 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

Because there's no room for metaphor or imagery or drama in poetry.  Why the right hates Common 2011-05-12T15:47:00Z

As a metaphor for a society under siege, Ms. Smith cunningly taps into the fear of the other that courses through so much of the public discourse these days. Review: ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Human Animals.’ 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Cameron replies, “I love how even the metaphors in this business are sexist.” Review: ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Time-Travels to Silicon Valley’s Dawn 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

The installation is a metaphor for the homeless and the city, children and hope and slavery. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

There's the way that Beyoncé always inevitably ends up using a financial metaphor to convey the depth of her love. Nicki Minaj's Super Bass and the year's best summer jams 2011-08-17T16:15:54Z

Only this time he could do taxidermy as a metaphor for history. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z

As the novel opens, this extended family has just moved to Vineland, N.J., into a collapsing house that serves as their precarious shelter and a very sturdy metaphor. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Dutch Masters” is a good, tidy play, in its structure and even in its metaphors. Review: In ‘Dutch Masters,’ Subway Seatmates, So Close and Yet So Far 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

But a rocket launch, they explain, might be better understood as a metaphor for Parsons himself. Science and sex cults: rocketeer Jack Parsons hits the small screen 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

As with 9/11, many New Yorkers reached for metaphors borrowed from movies and books to try to convey the surreal mood of the city. Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Imagine explaining “something big” without a Twinkie metaphor. Requiem for the Twinkie 2012-11-16T19:57:00Z

It is one in which the characters, even the bull, are subject not to the whims of gods and metaphors but to their own compulsions and machinations. ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ Review: Hit and Run, Sleight of Hand 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

As the show develops, these schemes emerge as helpful metaphors for bigger American issues, among them the bizarre marriage of new-age spiritual thinking with good old-fashioned commercialism. The Best New Social Thriller Is a Podcast 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Why they've titled their debut single after a marsupial we have no idea: the song doesn't appear to be about mammals at all, no matter how obliquely you pitch it as a metaphor. New band of the day – Wardell (No 1,480) 2013-03-27T17:04:22Z

But filmmakers didn't just want the food to act as a metaphor for bridging two cultures. Chef in 'Hundred-Foot Journey' serves up a feast for the eyes 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Conversation was for him a continuous experiment, in which he'd playfully draft phrases, similes and metaphors to fit the experience in hand, as if everything that happened might be a potential poem in the making. My hero Robert Lowell by Jonathan Raban 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z

Between the lines this book is a metaphor for the circumstances in which we find ourselves, spending time with people we don't like and rubbing along and not knowing what lies over the horizon. A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton - review 2012-11-17T09:00:00Z

Using an Internet metaphor seems especially appropriate, given an increased emphasis on social media this year. Music Review: Bang on a Can Marathon at Winter Garden 2010-06-28T22:19:00Z

Returning to the addiction metaphor: “Maybe you smoked a cigarette,” Hogan says. Hankering for cheese? Still stuck on steak? Time for a little vegan support. 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

In this book, "the wild thing" is a metaphor for Holly, a person who listens only to her heart, breaks the rules and doesn't really care about the future. Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote - review 2012-08-06T08:00:00Z

Morrison made her audiences conversant in her — the metaphors of trauma, the melodramas of psychology. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Perhaps more of a drawback, although one that often recedes as Krist’s narrative gains momentum, is what the title metaphor implies — an insubstantial and fleeting fiction. Los Angeles as the City of Dreams, and Nightmares 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The zombie metaphor becomes literal: zombies are not just like ostracized minorities, this particular zombie already was an ostracized minority. “In The Flesh”: a suicidal, gay, post-zombie story 2013-06-06T19:11:00Z

The president views himself as the victim of “The Greatest Witch Hunt in American History,” which he tweeted again Thursday, a metaphor that he has been using since the Mueller investigation. The Trump campaign held a Halloween ‘Witch Hunt Party’ and tortured a metaphor to death 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Though its presence alludes to L.A.’s unique interplay of nature and culture, the mushroom also serves as an apt metaphor for Downtown’s growth. | Acne Comes to Downtown L.A., Adds to the Neighborhood’s Growing Sex Appeal 2013-12-18T17:35:11Z

Might the growing spectre of cancer force us to rethink the metaphors and images that surround this illness? Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z

In fact, the reviews are so good — bursting with evocative turn of phrase, political metaphor and references to lady parts — that they've inspired me to make a poem. A shiny poem for Jeff Koons -- assembled from his Whitney reviews 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

“The dessert was a metaphor about coming together from different cultures, like the Jell-O and the coconut in the pudding,” Tiravanija, now 56, says. A Cookbook of Artists’ Creative Summer Desserts 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Wired” is centered on two metaphors that cross and compete. Only Connect: Finding a Way Into Kinetic Light’s ‘Wired’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Photographic images, Stieglitz believed, could be metaphors, not just records, "equivalents" to emotional conditions and states of being. Minor White's photos get a rare large-scale exhibition at Getty Museum 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

“They hold things together. There’s absolutely a metaphor in there,” he said. When Form Meets Function: Cuff Links Throughout the Centuries 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Using shape-shifting as a messy metaphor for sickness and childhood trauma, Stanley and Cage leap so far over the psychological top that they never come back to earth. ‘Color Out of Space’ Review: Bother From Another Planet 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

In my favorite of his stories, “The Mountain”—it’s available in English in a short-fiction collection called “The Wandering Earth”—mountain climbing is proposed as a metaphor for this contradiction. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

I love that I go to a cooking metaphor — I can’t cook anything. Aimee Mann talks about new solo effort “Mental Illness”: “You’re not in a cool rock band — you’re in a cool soft band. Embrace the soft.” 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The electricity cutting in and out was really a great metaphor for the transience of modern civilization as the world is transitioning to something else. Fear the Walking Dead: season one, episode three – The Dog 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

And lyrically, he's lost none of his old fire – delivering the same winning mix of hazy metaphor and gut-churning honesty, self-doubt and head-strong confidence. Wiley's great grime giveaway 2010-07-09T12:12:00Z

“Modern architecture is based on the metaphor of the machine,” he said. A tribute to architect Michael Graves and the small-town life he embraced 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The literature scholar in me loved the metaphor: There was no going back. Modern Love: Is the Husband Going to be the Problem? 2010-08-12T23:00:00Z

There are no options to it, no metaphor attached. ‘Class A’: An unforgettable year with a Mariners farm team 2013-05-24T15:46:33Z

On “Numbers,” he collapsed at least three metaphors into a single cash-brag: “I got old hundreds, they wrinkled like a Shar-Pei.” Perspective | I was wrong about Young Thug 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Particularly wearying is Robert’s elaborate spiel about those Cool Ranch Doritos as an extended ontological metaphor. Theater Review: ‘The Vandal’ by Hamish Linklater, at the Flea Theater 2013-02-01T03:00:00Z

What I love about the script is that it uses the gay closet as a metaphor for all the closets high school kids are in, any insecurity or perceived weakness that they think they have. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Making ‘G.B.F.’ 2013-04-19T16:00:13Z

The incident is not exactly a metaphor for the way this show is heading. Lean out: The underhanded feminism of “The Good Wife” 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Vampires are total sexual metaphors, there’s just no way around that. ArtsBeat: He's Created a Monster: Alan Ball Talks 'True Blood' 2011-06-17T14:49:32Z

For Stiepleman, who says he modeled his own marriage on his aunt and uncle’s, the case is a metaphor for the Ginsburgs’ partnership. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already a legend. But a new movie insists there’s still more to say about her. 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Is it a metaphor for the US healthcare system? It's a gut reaction: how other people's bacteria can cure us – extract 2013-03-31T00:05:02Z

Lucius’ “dream of being able to see another person’s thinking” is not only the controlling metaphor of “The Winter Soldier,” but the work of literature more broadly. A Rifle-Wielding Nun, a Medical Student and a Crackling World War I Tale 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Bodybuilding offers a ready metaphor for personal transformation, and the film embraces it, showing how exhibiting one’s strength, after years of privately embodied pain, can be freeing—even euphoric. “Man Made,” a Film About Transgender Bodybuilders, Upends the Traditional Documentary Gaze 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

On it he creates temporary, artificially generated clouds and photographs them, serving perhaps as a metaphor for this fair, which was troubled by weather upon its opening, and will disappear after Sunday. 30 Must-See Artists at the Armory Show 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

His recent take on Anna Karenina was more distinctive still: he set most of it in a huge, ornate theatre – a crisp metaphor for the artificiality of Russian aristocratic life. Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z

It’s no coincidence that the metaphors we use for a backlash tend to be come from climactic phenomenon — an opening of the floodgates, a turning of the tide, when it rains it pours. The inevitable Taylor Swift backlash begins: Watching the critical mad love crumble, right on schedule 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

He learned to fish in the Sea of Galilee, to provide food for his family, future apostles and a rich seam of metaphors. Cable girl: The Missing Years of Jesus 2010-12-28T08:00:02Z

In many mecha shows, the metaphor of the human-machine relationship is clear: humans create weapons in their own image, as vehicles for a violence inherent to our species. How “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Reimagined Our Relationship to Machines 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

Plato's "cave" metaphor compares our knowledge of the truth to that of slaves watching shadows thrown on a stone wall, each believing their perceptions to be real. What's so wrong with proscenium arch theatre? 2010-07-19T11:36:00Z

It was supposed to be a metaphor for femininity. In the Russian Embassy with Comme des Garçons and Other Weirdness 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Especially because they’re some surreal elements to this, the fantasies, this Greek chorus metaphor for being a hero. Zach Braff: "There Are No Great Roles in Film, They’re All Dried Up" 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

The metaphors about the ugly side of virtual fame aren’t subtle. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

The women in the class find the metaphor deeply powerful. For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

Her poem shifts from the speaker hunting for rabbits with their father to the hunt as a larger metaphor for being Black in Appalachia – and thus seen as both predator and prey: How Black poets and writers gave a voice to "Affrilachia" 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

It's a terrible metaphor, but Anastasia doesn't really mind that either. Fifty Shades of Grey trailer review: through a glass, daftly 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Other tunes describe an emotional bottoming-out in language that sets aside the elaborate metaphors of yore. Florence Welch says no tricks on new, stripped-down Florence and the Machine album 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Of course I have to convince the politicians, who tend to be deaf and don’t understand that making music together is a great metaphor for democracy. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

AUSTIN, Texas — You need look no further than this wonderfully off-kilter fact for a metaphor to describe the 33-year-old singer's evolution as she releases arguably the most interesting album of her career, "Little Broken Hearts." Norah Jones, Danger Mouse channel heartbreak 2012-05-02T12:53:08Z

So the movie, which involves a government squad protecting the Silk Road, may be a resonant, topical metaphor — or not. Review: ‘Dragon Blade’ Features Jackie Chan, Romans and a Lot of Mayhem 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

The same goes for the metaphor she chose for her title. The Education of Ellen Pao 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

But it’s a pretty great metaphor for marriage, too, isn’t it?” Film: ?Date Night? Adventure for Steve Carell and Tina Fey 2010-04-04T02:58:00Z

Helpfully, Rihanna recently devised her own metaphor for this: the "777" tour, an airborne promotional folly in which she played seven cities in seven countries over seven days. Tramlines, Devendra Banhart, Rihanna: this week's new live music 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

Of course, we don’t get to do that, and it takes more than the literalization of a metaphor to make it fly. Movie Review: ‘Winter’s Tale’ Takes Beauty and Wonder to Its Limit 2014-02-13T23:57:22Z

The movie is a perfect example of why we need the movie, because it's given us a metaphor to help organize our thinking about where we are, even though it is not a happy metaphor. Why the bleak film classic "Chinatown" is our new reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Pac-Man is held up as “the most perfect graphic metaphor of man’s fate.” Three Great Documentaries to Stream 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Mr Rovelli moves elegantly between illustrative metaphors, without ever mixing or belabouring any of them. The universe, writ small 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

In notes, Kiefer said he wanted to make the room not just a memory, but a metaphor for movement between east and west, a convergence between the past and present. Postcards From the Biennale 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

“I just thought it was an interesting thing to explore in real terms, and then allow the metaphor to be quite powerful and clean while the narrative event is extremely messy.” How the ‘Yellowjackets’ ‘Weirdos’ Fell in Love and Wrote a Hit Show 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Putting the monetary metaphors aside to avoid unwarranted antisemitism, let's just say that the criteria for defining a Muslim is not the same as that for defining a Jew. The Infidel: a case of mistaken identity 2010-04-08T11:00:00Z

The metaphor may be heavy handed, but it is a moment of magical realism that works here because of what the characters reveal to each other in this scene. “The Relationtrip”: A movie that is equal parts romance and road trip hits the skids 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Dern's Jason is all wheedling confidence, though the Atlantic City setting can seem almost too ready-made a metaphor. Film-makers need to trust the audience 2013-05-24T13:00:01Z

But metaphors do not equal emotional truth, and I couldn’t help but feel that Bibhuti’s son or one of his seedy pals would make a more natural foil than Lock’s Anglo ambassador. ‘Man on Fire’ review: Salvation through extreme record-breaking 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Is she making sculpture, meditating, working off karma, conjuring up metaphors for human struggle or making an elaborate joke? The Gimlet Eye: Microcosms of Life: Absurdities With a Cast of Strangers 2010-04-15T01:20:00Z

But this womenswear season, the floral-themed show came with an unusual metaphor: Can the clothes we wear in fact protect us? Givenchy, Kenzo, Chloe get tough, Celine delights 2013-03-04T02:31:05Z

Tokischa later told Rolling Stone that she was “truly sorry people felt offended,” but that the visual was conceptual, intended to illustrate the song’s metaphors. Tokischa, Latin Music’s Newest Rebel, Isn’t Holding Back 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

The zombie pandemic in “The Walking Dead” still works as a paranoid metaphor for terrorism, social collapse and the literal end of the American Dream. In ‘Outcast,’ the creator of ‘Walking Dead’ finds demons in downtrodden America 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

"A lot of people have said that cogs and clocks are an obvious metaphor to use. But if it's so obvious, why hasn't it be done before?" Doctor Who fan creates new TV titles 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

These sculptured war trophies served both as visual metaphors for a vanquished enemy, as well as precious symbols of a culture the Romans aspired to surpass. In Rome, Revisiting the Spoils of War 2010-03-18T11:00:00Z

As a writer, Watts is enamored with metaphor, but his analogies get muddled. ‘Only Child’ Review: A Magnetic Performer Without a Story to Match 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

He's like an embodied metaphor for an art that is both necessarily public and highly veiled. TV Picks: Ricky Jay, Tom Edison, 'Justified,' 'Masterchef Junior' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

There's plenty of reflection about the meaning of life on the margins, theft as metaphor and the like. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-08-17T21:55:03Z

Any effort at naming is an ungainly process, and begins with metaphor — what does this moment recall? In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

But, although the production is exemplary, Baker's play feels like a delicate miniature that never achieves the robust clarity of a dramatic metaphor. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z

Its most magical moments — when the tiger spouse licks his paws, the disturbing aborted birth of a cub — could’ve felt like false attempts at metaphor over meaning, but Felicelli plays them confidently. What Constitutes a Foreigner? Two Story Collections Explore 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

It's a beautiful metaphor for the relationship between reading and thinking, the words transmitting like light to the brain. The 10 best paintings for winter cheer 2013-01-12T19:05:00Z

In his fashion, he makes metaphors for grace. He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Here the world isn’t just small, it’s also a 360-degree metaphor that begins with a woman’s breasts, leads to the boulevard circling Vienna’s center and ends with the “O” of your slack-jawed incredulity. Movie Review: ‘360’ With Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law 2012-08-02T22:00:14Z

I choose that metaphor with some irony because in many ways I’ve never been more connected in my life. In Transit Blog: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Rider 2011-08-11T16:39:02Z

Far from seeming lumpen or unsubtle in its visualisation of the metaphor behind the film's title, McCarthy's work has proved an inspired commission from Considine and his team. Poster notes: Tyrannosaur 2011-07-27T11:45:08Z

The latter is an appropriate metaphor for their eccentric, fairytale world, which mixes 80s synthesiser pop swirls with plinky-plonky beats, shimmering, ghostly textures and odd but catchy tunes. Purity Ring: Shrines – review 2012-07-12T21:00:03Z

When he talked about himself it was often at a distance, using a tangled vocabulary of self-actualization metaphors. A Darker, Deeper Jim Carrey Returns to TV With ‘Kidding’ 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

This conversation about vampirism, AIDS, sickness and rebirth might be cluttered with mixed metaphors and burdened by so much plot, but it is by far the most interesting thing “Hotel” has going yet. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 5: We Have Two Selves 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Dawkins is dead to metaphor, and tries to annul it by insisting on the literal occurrence, contained in actual words, of the virgin birth and the resurrection. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

He was getting the hang of this metaphor' ... illustration by Matt Blease. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers – digested read 2013-02-10T13:00:01Z

Then he paused to smile and toss out one last metaphor: “You have to stay on the road when you drive.” Steven Wright, Master of the One-Liner, Tries His Hand at a Novel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Awakening as a metaphor for accessing not only the unfamiliar part of one’s consciousness but the buried truth of our society has exploded into the mainstream thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Imbuing that same metaphor with devastating pathos is the short 2001 video “A System for Writing Thank You Notes.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mental illness was a misplaced metaphor, a socially constructed way of permitting an ever-wider selection of behaviors to be forcibly controlled under the guise of helping people. Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis 2012-08-08T20:52:00Z

To borrow an astrology metaphor from his own millennial cohort, Mayor Pete functions as the left’s rising sign: he is the fresh-faced humanist, how Democrats want to be seen. The Coming-of-Age Tale That Inspired Mayor Pete to Learn Norwegian 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Once again, the metaphor is a bit too strong. House Watch: Throwing Up Blood, Again 2012-01-31T15:00:30Z

At first it seems like mere scene-setting when Desiree, dancing at a club, describes her week as a prelude to letting loose, but it becomes an apt metaphor for an unbalanced life. | 'Horsedreams': ?Horsedreams,? at the Rattlestick Theater - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:40Z

The titular “ooz” — a versatile metaphor that applies equally well to mental health and songwriting — represents all the excess crud our bodies are constantly discharging. King Krule, a Cult Singer in the Making, Is Setting the Terms Himself 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, in "Devolution" the sasquatch becomes a metaphor for the coronavirus pandemic, incompetent government leadership, and a public that is largely unprepared and ill-equipped to survive a prolonged crisis. Author Max Brooks on America's poor pandemic response and why Donald Trump is "a homicidal buffoon" 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

He asks, in grand metaphor, “How deep is the river of Zen?” The Lessons of Nothingness From Maverick Zen Monks 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

This was followed by a routine in which Oreos became a metaphor for the addictiveness of Trump clips. The Colbert Rapport 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

The death metaphors suggested by the title really start to pile up. ArtsBeat: Watchlist: Alan Moore Tries His Hand at an On-Screen Original 2012-11-26T21:18:03Z

And so, in a similar vein, I’m fairly certain that Rome in the new movie is a metaphor for the capital of Italy. Movie Review: Woody Allen’s Latest, ‘To Rome With Love’ 2012-06-21T12:00:00Z

On this campiest and craziest of series, every season of “American Horror Story” on FX serves up a new setting and a fresh metaphor for Hollywood. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

She spoke to me about jazz as a metaphor for black lives, their improvisational nature, their brilliance and the hard work that took. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

A metaphor can help make life – and death – a little less disorienting. The lasting testament of Jane Alexander 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

The poor knight who dies trying to seal Tyrion's guilt, fighting in full armor against a lightly guarded man, is a metaphor. Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z

He’s supposed to be unsociable, with a reputation for keeping visitors away from his cottage in the Swiss Alps — a metaphor for a country that goes about its business while harboring explosive passions? In Art and Words, a Book Lover Honors the Characters He Can’t Forget 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

In fact, they are almost all elements in an expressive pictorial language of symbols and metaphors that Mr. Johns has developed over a six-decade-and-counting career. Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

He writes brilliantly of the mental shifts that enable this to happen, using the metaphor of a membrane that has to be punctured by an act of will. Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III ? review 2011-07-29T10:43:00Z

That powerful scene is a beautiful metaphor for the #MeToo movement that would come decades after “Speak” was published. Controversial young adult novel offers insight into Kavanaugh hearings 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

The film unfolds with a seemingly effortless grace, the apartment, like the sepulchral interiors in a painting by Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi, becoming a metaphor for the labyrinths of a mind. Amour – review 2012-11-18T00:06:00Z

A soppy, facile look at grief, “The Starling” finds its protagonist coping with the death of her infant daughter — and a marriage that has faltered in its aftermath — with the aid of a flapping metaphor. ‘The Starling’ Review: For the Birds 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

The excerpt offers an obvious metaphor for the Israeli-occupied West Bank. ‘Wild’ and ‘Waiting for Giraffes’ Review: Where Survival Is a Struggle 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

In cheerier times, the tree might have been a metaphor for green shoots of recovery, but in this desolate place, it is a symbol of humanity's destructive power. The Garden | Theatre review 2010-03-26T23:30:00Z

Much of the second half takes place against the backdrop of a howling nighttime blizzard, an almost too-perfect metaphor. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Still, Mister Cee prefers not to label himself and uses a musical metaphor to explain. The Hip-Hop D.J. Mister Cee Spins On After Quitting Hot 97 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

It’s kind of a metaphor for life and the people that come in and out of your life, and loss and love and death and, again, aloneness. Chelsea Handler Needs More Jennifer Coolidge in Her Life 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

The way we speak our Spanish is through metaphor. Q&A: Pablo Larraín, director of ‘Jackie’ and ‘Neruda,’ talks about the anti-biopic 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

As it happens, the only thing that screams in this film is metaphor, with symbolism whimpering on the sidelines. Review: Piecing Together a Life in ‘Puzzle’ 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

And at the stables, Cole learns how to shovel manure — a blunt metaphor, of course, especially when he goes to clean the stalls wearing new sneakers. Idris Elba drama "Concrete Cowboy" brings audience along for a crowd-pleasing ride 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

AA counselled its members to stay vigilant about their vulnerability and to keep it firmly in mind by reciting metaphors, chanting slogans, and telling and retelling personal tales of failure and of success. Addiction is not a disease: How AA and 12-step programs erect barriers while attempting to relieve suffering 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

So unanswerable are these questions that heaven's perfection is perhaps better conveyed through metaphor or music—the poetry of Dante or Emily Dickinson or the oratorios of Bach. 2009-12-11T19:09:00Z

“I loved that idea; it not only made them different, but it was a good metaphor for what was happening with the civil rights movement in the country at that time.” When Blackness Is a Superpower 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Understand that your game-show wheel metaphor doesn’t necessarily apply to relationships. Perspective | Ask Amy: Estrangement interferes with family relationships 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

“Trump chose Waco because it’s a powerful metaphor for his campaign: He’s going down in flames, and he’s taking his cult followers with him.” Late Night Recaps Donald Trump’s Waco Rally 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

And then I've been reading the reviews and somebody said, "Well, it's a metaphor for fear of contagion, fear of loners, and this world today," you know, high schools and terrorists and stuff like that. "The Outsider": Crafting Stephen King's suburban horror despite a New York state of mind 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Films, after all, are the world of dreams and fantasies, and the metaphor works beautifully. Opera Review: ‘Cendrillon,’ From Massenet, Is Playing at Juilliard 2014-04-24T22:40:30Z

“But they all get together. It is an interesting metaphor for humanity to think about.” Dancers From the Deep Sea Shine on the U.N. for Climate Week 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

The irony is clear — but also too on the nose to be effective, as if the house, the setting, were less domicile than metaphor. Small things add up in Matthew Thomas' 'We Are Not Ourselves' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

O.K., overstretched metaphor alert: The “neighbor” is us. Are You Ready for the Financial Crisis of 2019? 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Cut to an image of water and sand as if Newton wasn't sure audiences could get the metaphor. "Where the Crawdads Sing" is a stupefyingly bad adaptation of spoon-fed melodrama 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

To take this bakery metaphor even further, you can’t blame the store owner for not having any pies when you told him, for years, that pies were gross. Where have all the fun sitcoms gone? They’re all over television, silly! 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But, its extended outro is an awkward spoken word moment that slams the song’s already obvious metaphor of the bedroom as jungle into the beaten ground. Justin Timberlake Overreaches on His 20/20 Follow-Up 2013-10-02T09:45:12Z

With so many philosophical balls in the air, Ozeki’s ideas are sometimes as inchoate as the metaphor of form and emptiness she periodically invokes but never entirely elucidates. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

She knows that “ ‘As if’ is pain’s rhetorical signature” and that metaphors are inadequate because pain is “under language.” ‘A Body, Undone’: A writer paralyzed in an accident dictates a powerful memoir 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

It's a miracle or it's a metaphor or it's a sex thing or something, and it points you right at the final plot twist, which I won't tell you but you might figure out anyway. "Passion Play": Megan Fox and Mickey Rourke, together at last 2011-05-07T16:01:00Z

“They’re acutely aware of what it’s doing and what their future is. My girls understand that my film is a metaphor.” Modern Times Call for Folk Horror 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Artists and critics have struggled to find the right words, or metaphors, to describe the phenomenon. Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

"Air and Angels" is one of the greatest poems in the language: "extreme and scattering bright" in its language and metaphor, and yet anchored in the body – lips, brow, every hair. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z

Toomer’s experimental mesh of forms and lyrical language made black experiences “the metaphor for the human condition” and modernity itself, Mr. Gates and Mr. Byrd write. Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White 2010-12-26T21:46:48Z

It also serves as a metaphor about the relationship between our finite bodies and infinite minds. Art In Review: SAM MOYER 2012-03-08T22:22:43Z

But most of us don’t experience our religious — or atheist, or agnostic or “spiritual” — identities as metaphor. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

I was, to overuse a metaphor, masked, even to myself. An Acclaimed Playwright on Masks and the Return to the Stage 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Surely it takes more than just mirror neurons to process such complexities of form, reference and metaphor. ‘Mirror Cells’ Asks: What Lights Up the Brain? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

As for starting with the Banksy work, Gouzer said the painting’s rebellious spirit was an apt metaphor for what Particle itself is trying to do — challenge the status quo. Cutting a Banksy Into 10,000 (Digital) Pieces 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

The most elaborate metaphor is in stanza five, where the setting sun becomes a dishevelled angel who "Tangles his wings of fire in the trees". Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z

The interview was one of those times when it became clear that Kimball’s obsession isn’t cooking, or even food per se, but their social context and potency as metaphors. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z

Ultimately, the half-sisters come of age, taking responsibility for themselves and harnessing every metaphor Ms. Walls sets up for them. Books of The Times: ‘The Silver Star,’ a Novel by Jeannette Walls 2013-05-29T20:54:36Z

It will always be there as a never-to-be-improved-upon metaphor for the icy despair and inhuman horror of deep space. Can no one hear us scream? Please Ridley, no more Alien films! 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The junk-filled house is a metaphor for his disordered mind, but amid the clutter lies a clue to solving the mystery of Phil’s blackout, Patty’s drug dependency and Sarah’s final days at SCET. Fiona Maazel's 'A Little More Human' is like Pynchon writing a telenovela 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Then it was all about finding the right analogy or metaphor for the way to tell an audience. Adam McKay Narrates a Scene From ‘The Big Short’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

And the darker manifestations of the trend, like the zombie drama “The Walking Dead” on AMC, “are a metaphor for our fears,” she added. Advertising: In Network Pilots, Paranormal Is the New Normal 2011-05-22T21:51:26Z

And yet there is something so singular and unimaginable about the events themselves that in this field, unlike many others, historians turn away from metaphor. Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

"I support the green movement, but there are no leaders," he says, before, characteristically adding another metaphor. Musical message 2010-03-21T13:13:00Z

If it had been made 10 years ago, Men Against Fire could have been a metaphor for the way western soldiers dehumanised and alienated local communities during the Iraqi and Afghan invasions. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

He ends up using an aluminum baseball bat to duel with a samurai-sword-wielding mob boss, a Yankee Doodle metaphor that’s as subtle as an aluminum baseball bat. ‘Training Day’ and ‘A.P.B.,’ Where the Rogue Cop Rules 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Hope, often cited as a metaphor for ne plus ultra, is unusual in that it has been on view for over 60 years. The World’s Most Glamorous Quarantine Project 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the best way to read "Pig" is as a metaphor for Cage's uneven career. Nicolas Cage's revenge thriller "Pig" is more about loss than bringing home the bacon 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

It seemed a fitting metaphor for his role in the 2020 race, and now in the culture. The surprising, enduring relevance of Andrew Yang and his ideas 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

The game offers a further metaphor too: for Gamerro, it conveys something of how the war was experienced in Argentina through contemporary news reports. Falklands war novel by leading Argentinian author comes to Edinburgh 2012-08-22T14:43:01Z

He mixes metaphors, sprinkles them with malapropisms and knows nobody will call him on any of it . . . because if they did, he’d accuse them of small thinking. In this exclusive clip from "The Morning Show," Billy Crudup's network CEO loses his grip 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

The underground in Underground is more than a metaphor for the repressed passions of four "ordinary workaday people", it is integral to the plot, and its shadowy locations set the film's tone. Underground depicts a world both far removed and familiar 2013-01-08T16:43:47Z

The wrong metaphor isn’t going to kill anyone, and the right one isn’t going to save any lives. A Rose Is a Rose Is … Your Experience of a Rose? A Writer Plumbs Consciousness 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

I’m a sucker for metaphors and appreciate the symbolism of erasing all evidence of another person’s involvement in your life, maybe while burning incense and chanting motivational phrases. For Me, He Was Willing to Face His Worst Fear 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

He said more research was needed to see whether the metaphors were valued by cancer patients in particular. 'War on cancer' metaphors may do harm, research shows 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Francis believes one of the core tenets of Afro-surrealism is its introspective nature, where metaphors like the sunken place are used to explore painful truths. From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

There’s a history of critics making the leap to screenwriting, but the metaphor doesn’t quite fit in your case. A Former TV Critic Puts Himself Under the Microscope 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

The stops and pedals, he said, elaborating on the metaphor, are like a font. Notre Dame's new pipe organ bears history's weight 2013-05-04T06:21:10Z

The historical allusions kept on coming, as muddled as the merch and the metaphors. The Trump campaign held a Halloween ‘Witch Hunt Party’ and tortured a metaphor to death 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The show ends with Rau dancing a solo, in which the shifting blend of east and west, classical and contemporary, offers its own metaphor of fluidity. Hetain Patel: Be Like Water – review 2012-11-28T14:00:44Z

But to me it's sort of this metaphor for the necessity or the possible arguable necessity to erase, deconstruct, dismantle existing structures. "#MeToo was our rehearsal space": An interview with Shelly Oria 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

So few of these metaphors satisfy — they’re heightened, meager, inappropriate — but there is something stirring in their awkwardness, in seeing a new phenomenon slip the net of ready-made language. In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Don’t Look Up” fails as a climate change allegory, because climate change resists metaphor. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Godin, for one, thinks there is a more apt metaphor for folks like Mr. Neugebauer who shout “impersonal, irrelevant messages we don’t want to get” at time when they are not welcome. Noticed: Interrupting Enters the Public Discourse 2010-03-24T22:52:00Z

The film can be ham-fisted in its use of metaphor, perhaps most strikingly with the presence of Mr. Reeves, who Mr. Refn says, “represents a certain aura of the mythology of Hollywood.” Nicolas Winding Refn Dissects His Bloody Confection 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

It was obviously a metaphor about leaving painful, stressful things behind for a more tranquil and meaningful life. ‘Proud Mary’ has a ‘Proud Mary’ Problem 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

In subtle ways, Gaiman uses the Endless as metaphors to make grand observations about humanity: In the first issue, when Dream is captured instead of Death, Dream is dismissed as a useless god. ‘The Sandman’ Is Coming to TV. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

This week, Mimi reaches menopause; cue a ropey metaphor in which she seeks to be regenerated like her home city, Liverpool, and elects to retire to Wilmslow to raise funds for charity. TV highlights 14/05/2013 2013-05-14T06:00:03Z

And high school is not only a metaphor. Television Review: ‘Emily Owens, M.D.,’ With Mamie Gummer, Begins on CW 2012-10-15T21:55:29Z

Then she glamours him to make him forget it ever happened, which is a metaphor for drunk makeup sex, I guess. "True Blood" recap: Good Eric, bad Bill 2011-07-11T05:01:00Z

Watching the creators of “Fiddler on the Roof” trying to focus its theme, Prince learned the importance of metaphor. Rolling Merrily Along With Hal Prince 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

“I said to Sam in rehearsals, ‘There are metaphors knocking around that are probably useful, certainly to me,’ ” Mr. Rickman said in an interview backstage before a recent performance. Arts & Leisure: Alan Rickman in Theresa Rebeck?s Comedy ?Seminar? 2011-11-12T21:57:17Z

They view the title as a metaphor for music they believe blooms between cultures. An ’80s rock star, a beat boxer and a Bulgarian folk choir walk into a studio 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

All these food metaphors for one insidious observation: Your skin isn’t white, but inside you are. I am Indian American, and it’s 2017. But I still get asked ‘What are you?’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Thereafter, simple gestures of standing and sitting became metaphors for social interaction and alienation – a clever idea, used throughout with unobtrusive subtlety. Prom 55: Peter Grimes – review 2012-08-26T10:04:13Z

I don’t deal in metaphors when I’m slaying zombies. ‘The Walking Dead’ Says Goodbye to Andrew Lincoln. Sort Of. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

As a metaphor, “falling in love” is mostly dead. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

And also as in “Bao,” in which a mother raises a steamed bun child from birth to adulthood, here again Shi uses a culturally specific metaphor to convey her characters’ emotions. ‘Turning Red’ Review: Beware the Red-Furred Monster 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

It’s fascinating to listen to the director talk about casting, the metaphors he finds for the qualities needed for the characters. David Fincher on Gone Girl: ‘Bad things happen in this movie…’ 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

You have to wonder if his name, Underwood, is not itself a metaphor: he is a delightfully deviled ham. Review: House of Cards Sinks Its Sharp Teeth into Washington 2013-01-31T15:00:10Z

SHE hopes to impart the sense of art as a metaphor. What Walls Say in ?Wall Street? 2010-09-29T20:10:00Z

Sinta, herself a devout Muslim, pictured every characters, actions and motives by cunning metaphors. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z

The journey could be a metaphor for his politics — a go-it-alone strategy that challenges norms and only occasionally pays off. Joe Sestak still wants to be senator — so he walked solo across Pennsylvania. 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Technical problems on opening night made it hard to judge the exact power of this metaphor. Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre: Rite of Spring and Petrushka – review 2013-04-12T21:00:00Z

Zamani, however, is too rich and complicated a character to be reduced to any single metaphor or symbol. A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The metaphor is obvious, but the illustration is graphic, some would say gratuitous, and the video was immediately banned by YouTube, though you can still see it on miauk.com. MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

Except this time the birds are a metaphor for their souls leaving their bodies? 9 Reasons The Notebook Still Sucks 10 Years Later 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Time for an extended metaphor about Ted's southern youth. Turn "Ted Lasso" into the Roy Kent show, you cowards 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

There are scenes, with Nanjiani, Hunter and Romano silently tolerating one another in hospital waiting rooms, that feel like a metaphor for America, where we all ought to try harder to understand one another. How ‘The Big Sick’ makes arranged marriages, Muslim families and a coma perfect rom-com material 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Along with her ability as a reader, she can travel through mirrors — a supercool trick, not to mention a metaphor about knowing yourself. The Season’s Standout Crossover Y.A. Novels 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

That's fine with me, but it was packed with metaphor and subtext. James Herbert interview: from the archive, 14 February 1993 2013-03-21T10:48:00Z

The border is such a strange metaphor for what happens at a certain moment in our life. The stories behind ‘Paris, Texas’ and more of director Wim Wenders’s films 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The story, he said, is “a metaphor for my own adolescence.” ‘A Storm Waiting to Happen’: A Colombian Writer Watches His Home From Afar 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Ancient history was the metaphor of the present. Art Review: Iran's Mirror of the World 2011-02-25T12:00:05Z

It’s the perfect metaphor for Netflix-era humans, whom Aristotle would have called “incontinent” in their desires: wanting more and more of the same, with no patience or self-control. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

The waves operate on several levels, including as a visual metaphor for community-based, collective Black political and social power, conceived as a force of nature. Oasa DuVerney’s Black Power Wave 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

“I think the metaphors or the emotions that lead me to want to write or finish a song are always the ones that are complicated,” she said. Climate Change Is Worsening. So the Weather Station Is Singing About It. 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Their brief stories are laced with magic realism, uncanny coincidences, metaphors taken literally and idioms come to life. Balancing sweet and tart, it's an 'Almost' happy holiday 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

He wanted to construct a game the way a poet strings words together, so that “the mechanics themselves are metaphors.” Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Ustvolskaya is right of course: instead of all those adjectives and metaphors, listen to this piece … Told you it was physical: it's one of Ustvolskaya's last works, her 6th Piano Sonata, composed in 1988. A guide to Galina Ustvolskaya's music 2013-04-08T11:27:24Z

As Mama practices it, baking is a militaristic exercise that requires exactitude at every juncture — a fitting metaphor for this precisely rendered and memorably aromatic show. Pie-making as theater: One really gets made while the secrets slip out on this Burbank stage 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Fashion has never been afraid to embrace a somewhat obvious metaphor. Burberry’s 50 Shades of the British Bourgeoisie 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

And when one grabs him, he slaps her, which made the whole scene read like a metaphor for our gendered movie moment. Men, Women, Cinema — No Longer the Same Old Story 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

His rap used the classic metaphor of personifying the genre of hip-hop as a woman. LeRoy Bell and the 'b' word on 'X Factor': ranking the field 2011-11-18T18:02:03Z

This was originally used to refer to success in the imperial civil service exams, but nowadays is a metaphor for courage and perseverance against great odds. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z

He plays this realization with mock sentimentality, but the metaphor is a poignant one. Review: In ‘Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!,’ He’s Too Hot to Live 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

In this largely Mexican production, this cultural struggle becomes a metaphor for American colonialism, as Mexico's ancient traditions are replaced by a simulated, kitsch version for the tourists. Montezuma 2010-08-15T21:01:00Z

The octopus — once depicted as an unnatural figure of centralization and greed — has become a metaphor for creative resistance to technology, modernity and capitalism? Put an octopus on it! 2012-07-05T00:00:00Z

It was years before those metaphors crept into her own work, initially in the Shakespeare productions, but the lessons were profound. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z

The lyrics were fantasies and metaphors, rarely delving into personal subject matter — a disconnect that allowed her to go anywhere and write about anything. The Worse Things Get…: Neko Case’s Cathartic New Album 2013-09-06T15:46:23Z

He didn’t seem to register the sports metaphor. So Long, Medical Scrubs. Jesse Williams Is Ready to Play Ball. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

According to Barker, 55, Power has an even more apt metaphor. What was the final year in the Obama White House like? This filmmaker was there. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

The fact that these songs are performed on a player piano, an automated device that is in essence a robot itself, adds to this metaphor of creepy artificiality. Play it again, Ram: meet the man behind Westworld’s old-timey rock covers 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Murphy with the perfect metaphor for why opening up a tip line on Escobar isn’t the best idea. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Legend vs. the Monster 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

Roberts emerges as a Shakespearean figure of forceful magnetism who fights mightily against being viewed as a walking metaphor for the Holly’s struggles. ‘The Holly’ Review: The Tragic Case of a Denver Activist 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

But let's try breaking away from stale metaphors and try dealing with real America. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

It’s a powerful metaphor, simultaneously menacing and reassuring, and it’s the first thing that connects the Afghan Whigs’ first album in 16 years with that band’s revered catalog. Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli: “Writing songs is the greatest gift I could give myself” 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

His starkly framed images stand on their own, without making literary allusions or grand metaphors, quite unlike the formal experimentation and subversive social commentary of Todd Haynes, Levy’s third subject. ‘Gay Directors, Gay Films?’ review: Onscreen depiction of sexuality 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a work of verse, with some prose end matter to help elucidate the poems, and it will reward a reader sophisticated enough to grapple with language and metaphor. Children’s Books About Black History, Heavy on Biographies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Or maybe the screams in the toilet are some sort of vaguely unsanitary metaphor. Review: ‘The Feast’ Plumbs the Depths of a Troubling Toilet 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Iron Henry is just a passing metaphor in Mariana Leky’s charming new novel, “What You Can See From Here,” translated from the German by Tess Lewis, but the reference is significant. Whenever She Has This Dream, Someone in Her Village Dies 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Daunting yet seductive, the mere look of the pages was an apt metaphor for this dazzlingly persuasive concert, which featured members of Axiom, one of the Juilliard School’s contemporary-music ensembles. Music Review: Axiom Plays Boulez and Stockhausen at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-21T21:49:17Z

It’s a cheap fake-out, but there’s a metaphor here: Despite his success and talent, Hall isn’t larger than life — like the rest of us, he’s just looking for answers over the rainbow. What happens when your whimsical ‘Wizard of Oz’ obsession actually pays off? 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

That fact might explain the frequent emergence of a phrase or metaphor that sparkles with lyricism and imaginative muscle. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

But it is a metaphor for the challenge of a series like “Impeachment.” ‘Impeachment’ Review: A She Said, She Said Situation 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

Counter-factual fiction is subject to a phenomenon variously expressed in metaphors involving butterfly wings, loose threads in sweaters and lines of dominoes: pull out one thing and the rest unravels. Dominion by CJ Sansom – review 2012-12-06T06:30:01Z

The metaphor is made literal: Charles is shown playing Richard II in a student production. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

What this programme worked best at was metaphor. TV review: The Hour; Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 2012-11-14T22:30:02Z

This one was surrounded by a very fine, old graveyard, like a metaphor, with many famous intellectuals in fabulous tombs; we sat calmly with the dead, as if we belonged there. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

“The way the imagination is shifting from one metaphor to the next restlessly, that has the ring or touch of Shakespeare,” he said, “though I wouldn’t bet my tenure on it.” A Lost Shakespeare? It?s a Mystery 2011-03-11T00:11:00Z

"Order 17 is a metaphor for all the people who started the war because they're never held responsible, and the people who introduce torture are never responsible." Ken Loach takes on private contractors in Iraq film 2010-05-21T16:38:00Z

That is totally a metaphor he would use. Josh Ritter preaches his “messianic oracular honky tonk”: “I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

In 1981, a young writer named David Brodsly described the Los Angeles freeway as one of the city's indispensible metaphors, “one of the few parts capable of standing for the whole.” Why the time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

It’s an arresting metaphor that, like much else in Mr. Dodin’s production, is as bold as it is effective. | 'Uncle Vanya': Maly Drama Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2010-04-08T22:50:00Z

Ms. Kirwin said, “To me, that was like a metaphor for the whole project.” Smithsonian Archives of American Art Gathers an Oral History of 2020 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

Colin Powell deployed the Pottery Barn metaphor before the invasion of Iraq. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Low-budget sci-fi plus indie date movie equals alternative credentials, as a couple trek through a futuristic Mexico infested with aliens and metaphors. This week's new films 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

The characters’ stories culminate in a six-page final chapter that is a grim, quiet metaphor for our struggles in and against the “the uncertain and frightening textures of the world.” You need to read this: 5 hot new fiction books coming in August 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

“I am mixing my tennis and baseball metaphors, but so would Robin.” In ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!,’ Robin de Jesús Knew He Could Do It 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

It’s almost a cliché to say that a ballerina’s arms suggest wings — the technique of ballet itself lends itself to metaphors of lightness and flight. ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Is a Ballet Bird With a Kick 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

It struck me as a cogent metaphor for how we live today: constantly teetering on the precipice to grasp at the latest popular thing. Keanu Reeves Is Too Good for This World 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

The title is a reference to sticky black gaffer tape—a metaphor for frustrating ensnarement. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Bordered by the Ionian and Adriatic seas, Puglia forms the heel of Italy’s boot, which is an apt metaphor for how it’s long been regarded by fellow countrymen and countless invaders. Italy’s overlooked ‘heel’ has a wealth of food, wine and unique architecture 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

In the film, Baldwin called whiteness a “metaphor for power” and called out this country’s legacy of racism in the bluntest of terms. In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Jamison solves the problem of reincarnation’s implausibility by evading it: she’s not interested in reincarnation itself; she’s interested in it as a metaphor. Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The widespread devastation of honeybees, as dutiful workers abandon their hives and leave their dependents to implode, is a key metaphor in the new play “Colony Collapse.” A family on the verge of 'Colony Collapse' 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The marathon is an easy metaphor for life’s trials, and if you happen to actually be a marathoner, well, there’s probably no avoiding it. Review | How running transformed the life of an NPR host 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

One of the survivors, Sarah Ransome, details a scene that seems to serve as a metaphor for how the world at large approached Epstein. "Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich" is an important, but painfully incomplete portrait of his victims 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

For a few moments I sat motionless while the metaphor visualised itself. Short story: Message in a (Klein) Bottle by Russell Hoban 2012-07-19T16:04:37Z

It’s tempting to slot into the most evident groove of interpretation with “Dead Collections”: that vampirism is a metaphor for being trans. He’s a Transgender Archivist and a Vampire, and He’s in Love 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

A metaphor can help make life — and death — a little less disorienting. The lasting testament of Jane Alexander 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

The novel, full of dense imagery and metaphor, blends techniques and styles from poetry, memoir and theater, a mélange typical of Mr. Lamming’s fiction. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The metaphor is an apt one, for Cargill seemed to point to a casting choice that challenged gender assumptions as somehow redemptive for its catering to racial ones. White isn’t a neutral color: “Doctor Strange,” Tilda Swinton and the “unwinnable” diversity argument 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

The book is not a real book, just a resonating metaphor the director banked long back. David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare famously compared the world to a stage, returning again and again to the metaphor of life as an ephemeral pageant. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Armond similarly presents a metaphor for many hospitality workers in Hawaii, left with virtually no other options but to serve privileged vacationers as a direct result of the legacy of American imperialism. “White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff” 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Literary heavyweight Norman Mailer is among many authors who see the boxing ring not only as a stage for visceral drama, but as an arena rich with symbolism and metaphor. 'At the Fights': a heavyweight collection of American writers on boxing 2011-05-11T21:03:09Z

I think he's misunderstood the whole balancing metaphor. Is scrapping workers' rights the Tories' idea of spreading privilege? 2012-10-13T23:06:35Z

Digging into her routines as a spouse and a mother, Jamison begins to push back against the displacements of metaphor, narrating the process of learning to “dwell in the building I’d chosen.” Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

I put the cupcake on my dashboard and left it there for the next six months, where it calcified and became a graveyard for cigarettes and other detritus — perhaps a metaphor, of some sort. A Forbidden Relationship, From the Other Side of the World 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z