| 单词 | metaphoric |
| 例句 | This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z She said it was usually metaphoric, but for people who should never do acid again, it was literal. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z In interviews she has repeatedly rejected easy metaphoric readings of her work. Theater Review | 'The Book of Grace': At the Public, Suzan-Lori Parks?s Family Reunion 2010-03-18T03:57:00Z Mr. Fitch turns “Le Baiser de la Fée” and the entire “Dancer’s Dream” program into a metaphoric fantasy about the transformative power of music and the allure of dance. Music Review: ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ Includes Orchestra in Stravinsky Ballets 2013-06-28T21:18:49Z When she was presented with the “True Blood” pilot script, adapted by Alan Ball from Charlaine Harris’s first “Southern Vampire Mysteries” novel, she was looking for a metaphoric change of scenery. Television: One Sanguine Star 2011-06-16T19:49:29Z Whatever its metaphoric weight, “In Exile” is painted in Rue’s most straightforwardly naturalistic manner. Jared Rue’s ‘Broken Line’ fuses family discord, nature scenes | Art review 2012-12-06T21:56:20Z Dickenson's "Wild Nights," for instance, portrays torrid sensuality, complete with the metaphoric rocking motion of a boat. Bringing a jazz pulse to e.e. cummings and friends 2011-03-14T13:54:10Z The film is a metaphoric reflection of the ecological and sectarian threats posed to the natural world. Review: A Must-Hear Maestro Leads ‘Requiem’ at the Shed 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Hedwig’s botched gender reassignment surgery results in an eponymous “angry inch” which acts as a metaphoric rudder, guiding her journey through an America that wasn’t quite ready for her. John Cameron Mitchell on Hedwig, Caitlyn Jenner and how 'queer' has changed 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Similarly, the film portrays James’ dwarfism as a metaphoric as well as physical disability. Three Billboards' portrayal of dwarfism is reductive and ableist, and I would know | Eva Squire 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z And not some vague, metaphoric killing off with emotional abuse, but literal pills-down-her-throat murder, so he could be with his new girlfriend. Solving the mystery of how my mother died: Was it murder, suicide or death by cosmic joke? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Since “Three Billboards” is a Hollywood movie, there is sunlight, real and metaphoric, throughout, including glimmers of that audience-pleasing essential known as Redemption. Review: A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Since her show is based on a myth, Mitchell intended the song to be “mythical, metaphoric, archetypal.” No, that ‘Hadestown’ song isn’t really about Donald Trump 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Eyre turns the scene metaphoric: the entwined lovers are trapped in the crumbled ruins of walls and stairs from Amiens and Paris. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z “It evokes a metaphoric frame or metaphoric knowledge base that should be relatively accessible to people — the notion of melting,” Mr. Cohn said. The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z It's as if everybody got stuck in that quagmire between simplicity, period felicity and symbols, metaphoric and moderne. Adaptation makes perfect 'Sense' 2011-03-21T22:16:58Z This, it must be said, is the weakest element of the novel; Dina’s madness seems too metaphoric. “Broken Harbor”: Suburban gothic 2012-07-22T22:00:00Z “In the 1970s, artists began to return to them for their metaphoric power.” Richly Decorated Memorials Emerge From Ancient Traditions 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z While trying to maintain some of the metaphoric ambiguity of the opera, this production tells the story more literally and in greater historical detail. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Weekly, Manohla Dargis declared that it had “no metaphoric resonance, no ostensible target, and finally, no purpose outside of its own existence.” “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” Which Is Finally Streaming, Is Possibly My Favorite Movie of All Time 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Here Mr. Paine pushes the metaphoric content that underpins these sculptures to new extremes. Man of Steel?s Industrial Web, Mirroring Nature 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z Working within this curious literary constraint, Mr. Griffiths created song texts of wondrous variety and metaphoric power. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Has Its New York Premiere 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z This metaphoric disintegration also operates on a more general level. What lies beneath the grinning visage in 'Smiley Suicide' 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Another metaphoric sculpture is a rowboat made entirely of suitcases, an allusion to the numerous immigrants who, like Mr. Uribe, crossed bodies of water to begin anew in the United States. | Westchester: Federico Uribe’s Man-Made Nature, in Yonkers 2013-06-21T23:35:51Z Can God be literally described, or are we condemned to hurl millions of metaphoric approximations at him, in an attempt to describe him? The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z It doesn’t help that he seems to encourage you to wish the worst on at least some of them, notably a troika that serves as this tale’s metaphoric blind mice. ‘The Sacrament’ Invokes Jonestown 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z He didn't understand that McCarthy's size is as metaphoric as Streisand's nose, which was also derided by critics. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The play's characters - portrayed by a cast that includes Laurie Metcalf and David Suchet - may be trying to hide from themselves in the literal and metaphoric fog that enshrouds their home. ArtsBeat: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' in London 2012-06-20T20:01:13Z Our taste now is for the miniature and metaphoric — works too exquisite to live outside the living room. Review: Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons,’ With All Its Seams Showing 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z With these interspersed segments, filmed in a castle outside Rome with a compelling cast of Italian actors, Mr. Figgis tries to provide historical and metaphoric context for the characters in the opera. Music Review: O, Unsmiling Villainess! 2011-02-20T22:50:12Z But like so many close-ups on "Breaking Bad," this one has a metaphoric dimension, too. Recap: "Breaking Bad" 4x3, "Open House" 2011-08-01T18:30:00Z Cherkaoui’s “Mercy,” was a metaphoric journey from violence—a jerky, robotic, mimed beating—to forgiveness. Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev make magic in "Solo For Two" 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The piece begins with Ms. Rampling, barefoot in a plain, black dress, reciting “Lady Lazarus,” which draws on World War II imagery as a metaphoric expression of more general oppression. Review: ‘The Night Dances,’ With Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z This show operates in a metaphoric and poetic space. ‘Dickinson’ Uses the Civil War to Explore Modern Divisions 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z But, apart from her name, there's little to indicate Maleficent's dark future, until she experiences a wrenching and deeply metaphoric betrayal that hardens her. The baby-cursing Maleficent gets to show a softer, less-wicked side 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Stories about animals on journeys, whether far-flung or more metaphoric, have fueled works of fiction from “Black Beauty” to “Bambi” and “Lassie Come-Home.” One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z This makes sense – the episode, which kicks off maybe Buffy’s best run of episodes, is the show’s most seamless metaphoric integration of slaying and adolescence, and also its most emotionally painful. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the five best episodes 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z So is the ultimate reveal of the giant sculpture, a metaphoric angel — instantly recognizable in the West — wearing white. Review: ‘Angels Wear White’ Is a Searing Tale of Moral Rot in China 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “I made myself more vulnerable and made a step away from the metaphoric,” she said in a recent interview at the Bowery Hotel. ‘I Never Thought I Would Talk About It.’ So Florence Welch Put It in a Song. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Conceptually, the metaphoric collage provides just the right amount of mysterious allure. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z The season premiere of “The Americans” on Wednesday night began in darkness, literal and metaphoric. ‘The Americans’ Season 4 Premiere: She’d Kill Me 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The central metaphoric link is between the aforementioned mortal clock and an actual clock shop, located in a northern Chicago suburb "five minutes from Northwestern." Three stars for engaging 'Hickorydickory' 2011-05-16T01:07:25Z It's even possible to see this ruined landscape, brought on by brutal human incursion, in metaphoric terms. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z So is a commitment to painting as a carefully crafted physical object — a thing, not a metaphoric mirror or window. Survey of Agnes Martin's powerful yet meditative work draws a straight, vibrant line to Zen 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z But the flow, metaphoric and visual, is rich. Shock of the Nude 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z There, he told the story of Oskar Matzerath, a man who, in the physical and metaphoric sense, refuses to grow up. How will Guenter Grass be remembered? 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Lee’s most radical move in “Chi-Raq,” which he wrote with Kevin Willmott, is to transport a classical Greek play to a Chicago that is highly fictional and painfully real, geographically specific and unmistakably metaphoric. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But now we are demonstrating that we, too, are capable of metaphoric births, shadows are looming over maternity that seem to me threatening. Elena Ferrante: ‘Nothing is comparable to the joy of bringing another living creature into the world’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z That first metaphoric pair of glasses rendered me more or less colorblind for a contented few hours. Broadway on Race: Still More Likely to Comfort Than Confront 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z “There’s a lot of metaphoric reality in that one. Thank you for sharing. It was kind of you,” responded the governor, suppressing a laugh and looking relieved his brother hadn’t said something worse. A fine bromance? Why the Cuomos' brotherly love is just what we need 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Casting brunette models in black and blondes in white, he said, "was a metaphoric message" about "the perfect harmony of those two." Gurung at NY Fashion Week: From edgy to elegant 2012-02-11T21:31:15Z While another director might use the belching crater for its metaphoric resonance, as a symbol, say, of churning emotions, the volcano is of real existential concern for Koichi. Movie Review : ?I Wish,? Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda 2012-05-10T22:21:26Z Conventional wisdom may dictate that a woman past 60 ought to be settled in her metaphoric rocker, basking in her sunset years. They’re Mad as Hell 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Sept. 11, after all, was so disturbing, so effective because of its metaphoric value, as much as the death and devastation that it caused. Osama bin Laden's bookshelf revealed: What you can learn from his reading list 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z To illustrate her point, she poses a metaphoric question about real-life pet kittens: “Do you own the cat, or does the cat own you?” Inside the Colorado Mansion where the kittens of BDSM run wild 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Voices and instruments were however occasionally separated by a metaphoric Red Sea. Israel in Egypt 2010-06-04T21:01:00Z Hewing to Gunn's metaphoric tale of assimilated urban blacks turned destructive through social separation and torn cultural and religious affiliations, Lee shows obvious affection for a fellow provocateur. 'Da Sweet Blood of Jesus' a vampire's kiss from Spike Lee 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “Something in Michael Dunn is metaphoric about this concept of a post-racial America that is blind to its own racism,” said Silver, who is white. In '3 1/2 Minutes,' an eerie prefiguring of the Charleston shootings 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The brand appeals to the pipe dream that with just the colon cleanse, you too could get your metaphoric and literal sh*t serenely, vibrantly together. Our crappy healthcare system is to blame for Goop 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Couple it with the Met Gala and just try to put my arms around everyone is a big giant, metaphoric hug. Jeremy Scott Is Planning to Make Movies 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z “It’s kind of iconic and metaphoric to see the changes we as a country feel,” he says. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The plot’s dreaminess is emphasized by Yan’s repeated phrases, relentless recycling and extraordinarily metaphoric language. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z That's a novelist's detail, used here for both metaphoric and political effect. Mohsin Hamid's new book takes a post-9/11 view 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Wood might counter my criticism by suggesting that he is throughout his writing using belief in a consistently metaphoric sense. We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z “Then there are a lot of metaphoric dreams,” she adds. Having coronavirus nightmares? Here’s what you can do about those bad dreams. 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Sometimes it takes the audible, metaphoric form of a hammered drum. Review: Reckoning With Medical Betrayals ‘Behind the Sheet’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Travel stories are almost invariably metaphoric expeditions with multiple destinations, not all of them literal. ‘Compartment No. 6’ Review: Strangers on a Russian Train 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Browne returned to read her poem “A Country of Water,” a powerfully personal, richly metaphoric work. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Riddick initially struggles just to survive, an elemental fight that has a nice metaphoric resonance for the series. Movie Review: Vin Diesel Returns in Latest Riddick Film 2013-09-05T21:52:59Z In the galleries, that enhances these particular works' corporeal sense of a painting as metaphoric skin and bones — a skin of painted washes of canvas anchored by a skeletal grid and stretcher bars. Survey of Agnes Martin's powerful yet meditative work draws a straight, vibrant line to Zen 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z When we Zoom, we “connect” along our metaphoric edges. What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z But in his new novel, Mr. Whitehead grabs onto the most richly metaphoric conveyance of all: the Underground Railroad. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Well and good, but this works only as long as you understand “story” as a metaphoric term for a kind of artistic unity. Perspective | New opera wants the same appeal as television. If only it could be as smart. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z In working together on “Early Plays,” though, their focus blurs, as if all that fog, real and metaphoric, had gotten to them. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z The words "deeper" and "underground" acquire a metaphoric meaning in the scenes set in the Super Lab. "Breaking Bad" recap: Season 4, Episode 1, "Box Cutter" 2011-07-18T13:19:00Z Basketball is built on personal relationships, or at least metaphoric approximations of them. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z Usually in Swiss films the mountains are a place that is very beautiful, where the character will find the truth, a lot of positive metaphoric things, and that is so stupid. The Carpetbagger: A Director Who Prefers Working With Kids (Well, One in Particular) 2012-12-14T15:00:51Z The title of the documentary isn’t purely metaphoric. Movie Review: ‘The House I Live In,’ Directed by Eugene Jarecki 2012-10-04T23:11:01Z The moment felt very metaphoric, probably because Nick had been so persistent in pursuing me. Modern Love: Bitten in the Virtual Zoo ? Modern Love 2011-10-13T21:10:45Z Whether you intend to reproduce or not, to say the world must get better for-the-kids is a problematic frame, be it actual or metaphoric. Insidious political cliché alert: Stop saying it’s all about the kids 2014-04-21T22:59:00Z Among the most memorable unnamed characters in literature are Dostoevsky’s Underground Man and Ellison’s Invisible Man, and the key to these creations is their balance of the metaphoric and the actual. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Holly sees her generation — Mitchell's generation — as ancient cannibals and metaphoric vampires, consuming the young. In 'Bone Clocks,' David Mitchell ties his universes together 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z These are surreal, metaphoric gestures to be sure, but they also evoke the Enlightenment-era vogue for collecting and studying natural specimens. Male or female? Black or white? The paintings of Lezley Saar play with labels and expectations 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Colson Whitehead has long had a thing for the metaphoric possibilities of mechanized modes of transport, the more old-fashioned the better. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Conducting a search that's both metaphoric and gumshoe-specific, Costa retraces her sister's steps, sometimes accompanied by their mother, who speaks openly of her pain and guilt. Petra Costa retraces her troubled sister's path in 'Elena' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z These, too, merge muscular materiality and metaphoric portent, chaos and control. Iva Gueorguieva's paintings exude simultaneity and sensuality at ACME 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z It is not trying to be clever, flowery, metaphoric. Barbra Streisand, James Corden and More on Their Favorite Sondheim Song 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z I wanted to find a way of making it a bit more tactile and metaphoric than just falling into the internet, which is kind of a hard thing to perceive. Rupert Sanders Narrates a Scene From ‘Ghost in the Shell’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z When Jonathan Raban writes about the sea – and he does so obsessively, over the course of his many books of travel-memoir – he doesn't require it to gesture at anything, or perform any metaphoric function. Jonathan Raban: captain of seagoing literature 2011-07-13T13:05:30Z But as the poem explores tangential ideas and metaphoric asides, Sorey’s score trends chromatic — while making use of Yarn/Wire’s facility with the experimental techniques that Greenberg mentioned in his email. High Schoolers Get In on an Avant-Garde Musician’s Latest Show 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z What is uncommon in Boston is the attempt to deal with an invisible threat — radiation — and the majority of surreal, symbolic, or metaphoric responses. Review: Japanese Photographers Reflect on the Fukushima Catastrophe 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Sinkholes, blankets of peaches, thunderstorms and breasts bruised raw all play significant metaphoric roles. Review: In ‘Cal in Camo,’ a Raw Welcome to Motherhood 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The cat, also this movie’s title character, has some metaphoric weight, representing the life Emily left behind. Review: In ‘Mr. Roosevelt,’ an Ailing Cat and a Comedian in Crisis 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z A polymath, he earns money drawing freelance illustrations for newspapers, but he’s also writing an opera, taking boxing lessons and studying electricity, a passionate habit that takes on mounting metaphoric resonance. ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ Review: The Cat’s Meow 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Stories of sacrifice, literal and metaphoric, run throughout human history, so of course they have long been reliable cinematic fodder. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z The spectators decided the metaphoric image that sat in the third stanza meant to describe the abstract idea was the agent of my poem. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z If Britney's metaphoric selves are actually duking it out in her brain as well as they are in this video, we can only assume that, for now at least, the good half has won out. Dissecting Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" 2011-02-18T16:45:00Z At worst, Sloterdijk could be accused of merely spotting metaphoric slippages between the womb-encircled human foetus, saintly faces surrounded by haloes and the static-charged spheres employed by mesmerists or enthusiasts of animal magnetism. Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Wieland Hoban - review 2012-02-10T22:55:00Z Pictorialism asserted its artistic status through refined, metaphoric and subjective expression that summons up paintings. Minor White snaps into focus again in Getty Museum show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s hard to avoid metaphoric associations with bubble economies popping and burning all over the world. The global economy, summed up in these two bubble machines 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The play’s characters – portrayed by a cast that includes Laurie Metcalf and David Suchet – may be trying to hide from themselves in the literal and metaphoric fog that enshrouds their home. ArtsBeat: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' in London 2012-06-15T16:21:52Z Possibly so, but then any number of novels could be loaded with such metaphoric freight if the reader wished. Nowhere Ending Sky by Marlen Haushofer – review 2013-07-13T07:30:01Z The set designer Heike Scheele has fun with the desk conceit while tapping into its metaphoric richness. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z “In my novels, walls are real walls. But of course they are also metaphoric walls at the same time,” the 74-year-old writer said. For author Haruki Murakami, reading fiction helps us ‘see through lies’ in a world divided by walls 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Not a picture of a woman or another metaphoric sign of her presence there, but an actual woman. Art made during — and despite — the pandemic informs the Hammer's 'Made in L.A.' 2023 biennial 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z In his son’s bedroom, with a star-projecting nightlight pulling its metaphoric weight, Don tells him that dreaming is important, but hardly sounds as if he believes it. Review: In 'Dreamin' Wild,' belated success comes decades later — and still maybe too soon 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z “It’s a real call and a metaphoric one,” she told the audience, for “someone intelligent, experienced and compassionate.” The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Lest we imagine this will be a realistic narrative about erotic jealousy, the conversations take a peculiar, metaphoric turn when another passenger casually discusses the sighting of ghosts. Review | Kelly Link wants to push us outside of our comfort zone 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The choreography by Rick and Jeff Kuperman becomes more flamboyantly muscular as bodies are pummeled in a storm that is literal as well as unapologetically metaphoric. Review: A hypnotic new musical adaptation of 'The Outsiders' stays gold 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z A lot of exaggerated claims are made for poetry, but Dunya Mikhail isn’t being hyperbolic or even metaphoric when she says, “Poetry really saved my life.” Review | In Dunya Mikhail’s ‘The Bird Tattoo,’ Iraqi women are sold as slaves 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z “It certainly became a great metaphoric challenge for me as a Black woman,” she said. ‘The Woman King’ is Viola Davis’s ultimate flex 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “It was sort of metaphoric to not just everything I had done to prepare for this role but everything that I had done as a Black woman to prepare for this moment,” Davis says. ‘Woman King,’ Viola Davis and the culmination of a struggle 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The metaphoric champagne corks will be popping in Nato's senior ranks tonight as the biggest stumbling block is removed to admit two major new members. Turkey supports Finland and Sweden Nato bid 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The dawns are literal and metaphoric new days, but I found the sunsets, although equally beautiful, to be tinged with a certain sadness. Review | Frank Bruni’s memoir offers a playbook on finding silver linings 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Was the use of “disgust” for such a wide range of activities simply a metaphoric quirk of the English language? How Disgust Explains Everything 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z To secure such walls, literal or metaphoric, what's needed above all are a bloated military at the national level, paramilitaries at the community level and a semi-automatic in the hands of every red-blooded right-wing individual. A Nationalist International? Thanks to German taxpayers, the far right gets a global think tank 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Traveling by river became metaphoric: Just as rivers connect towns and cities, Mr. Moore said, he began exploring connections between people often separated by race, class and political stripe. Two Years, 22 Rivers, 7,500 Miles. Crossing America by Canoe. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z From time to time this metaphoric connection has been taken literally. Perspective | Why so many guns on Christmas cards? Because Jesus was ‘manly and virile.’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z By the time the film finally focuses on Marguerite, she feels like an afterthought amid a welter of warring egos, performative male aggression and swordplay both literal and metaphoric. Beneath the chain mail and bad hair, ‘The Last Duel’ is a movie about mansplaining and toxic masculinity 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z "People borrow concepts and terms from other domains. It's metaphoric," she said. Using "DNA" as a metaphor? It's in English's DNA 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z “My point is that illness is not a metaphor, and that the most truthful way of regarding illness,” she wrote, “is one most purified of, most resistant to, metaphoric thinking.” Opinion | Salman Rushdie: What’s irretrievable after a pandemic year 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z So Rick really pushed me to be more direct - where in the past, I've been really metaphoric. Imagine Dragons: How a text saved singer Dan Reynolds' marriage 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Not metaphoric chaos, but actual chaos, deadly chaos, on grueling, gutting display in the footage of Jan. 6 that House Democrats presented at his Senate trial. Opinion | Trump’s Republicans, Brought to Their Knees 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z I built stone walls around them, metaphoric protection from the strife I knew was coming. Perspective | In this chaotic pandemic, I weave together some type of order by restoring old chairs 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z One way to understand direct and metaphoric imagery is to consider that dreams express an individual's core concerns, drawing on memories that are similar in emotional tone but different in subject matter. The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Changing Our Dreams 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Camus was not writing about one plague in particular, nor was this narrowly, as has sometimes been suggested, a metaphoric tale about the Nazi occupation of France. Opinion | Camus on the Coronavirus 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Fairhope - are firing metaphoric media howitzers at each other as the calendar counts down to the March 3 primary. Editorial Roundup: Alabama 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Who hasn’t felt trapped in one’s own life, marooned in a small town, metaphoric or otherwise, with no rail link to the capital? Why Tales of Female Trios Are Newly Relevant 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z “We file. We do our job. We prosecute whoever without holding a metaphoric scalp out there and saying look at the latest police officer we’re prosecuting,” she said. How Jackie Lacey's and George Gascón's time in office shapes the L.A. County D.A.'s race 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Ellen Bass: The one metaphor that he really presents in a traditional metaphoric way—“the tide creeping like a wolf”—I think is really interesting because there’s that, again, primal threat, right? Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z I’m not sure whether the photo of Clay Helton on page one of the sports section on Thursday was prescient or metaphoric, seemingly portraying the coach as leading a parade ... without a baton! Letters: USC keeps Clay Helton and readers keep fighting on 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s good manners to speak well of the departed, but most of that Twins traffic broke down on the metaphoric expressway. Twins Don’t Know What Hit Them. (Hint: It Was the Yankees Again.) 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Saar’s bed of coal welds its metaphoric capacity for spiritual transformation to the blues. Review: At LACMA, Betye Saar's distinctive assemblage art probes American racism 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z With a soaring, sky-lit ceiling, antique woodwork and stained glass, it’s a striking backdrop for minimalist, metaphoric works made of mugs and greeting cards. A Very Full Day at Snug Harbor on Staten Island (and Where to Eat and Drink Nearby) 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In that movie, a shattering study of grief in the guise of a haunted-house chiller, she invested a storybook boogeyman with real metaphoric grandeur. Review: Jennifer Kent's 'The Nightingale' is a brilliant, horrifying tale of revenge 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The ending of “Apple Season” takes a daring leap, but the metaphoric flourish seems as spurious as the apples piled in crates like holiday ornaments. Review: 'Apple Season' suggests you can always go home again, but should you? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Maier-Aichen’s seascape reveals itself to be both natural and metaphoric — profoundly so, given today’s slumping political environment. Natural landscapes turned noxious in photography on view at Blum & Poe 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z My first reaction was to do a metaphoric triple axel and shout “hallelujah!” An ageless question: When is someone ‘old’? 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z “We wanted the doors to convey a metaphoric reflection of Los Angeles, a veritable cornucopia of dense geometries with treasures hidden in plain sight,” Joyner said. The Owl Bureau, a new Highland Park bookshop, builds on creating community 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The void, though, is a larger metaphoric problem that zoning regulations are not likely to address in the immediate future. How Luxury Developers Use the ‘Void’ to Build Sky High 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Gold is an agent of light with metaphoric implications. Review: No diamonds but plenty of gems in 'Jeweled Isle,' first big U.S. museum survey of Sri Lankan art 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z One of his obvious strengths as a playwright is in distilling narrative into fluid stage images, metaphoric tableaux that communicate the meaning of scenes more effectively than the plot or the dialogue. Review: 'Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden' is a nocturnal journey at the Huntington that blurs the line between reality and illusion - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Predators hold significant metaphoric power, enshrined over centuries in myth, religion and literature and long coveted by humans – especially the rich. The heist of Helen the shark is testament to humankind's hubris | Elle Hunt 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Fifty years later, the quest for that metaphoric Promised Land remains at the center of much of the political and social discourse in this country. Alabama editorial roundup 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The journey is often a fanciful one, more metaphoric than realistic, marked by implausible coincidences, touches of folkloric whimsy and an antic sense of humor that keeps pathos at bay. Joy, heartbreak and psychedelic surf rock power a fierce, funny 'Cambodian Rock Band' 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z I didn't understand the meeting of the metaphoric advice until well into adulthood. Opinion | Sasha Cohen: An Olympian’s Guide to Retiring at 25 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Bookended by metaphoric traffic jam scenes that suggest eternal stagnation and, in small, funny ways, a kind of catch-as-catch-can freedom, "Holy Air" is a small, canny gem from a fractured land. Middle east comedy 'Holy Air' provides clever, melancholic take on religion and commerce – LA Times 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z There are numerous metaphoric readings, including a touchstone one heavily hinted at by Aronofsky. With 'mother!,' Darren Aronofsky looks to blow your mind 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z It depicts Percy leaning in a doorway, a metaphoric gateway into the author’s world. Louisiana city to erect Walker Percy monument at park 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Tattoos are decorative, often metaphoric, sometimes regrettable, but always injurious. How Tattoos Might Affect Your Workout 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Or, for that matter, when this eerie spectacle still felt rich, even full to bursting, with metaphoric possibilities. George Romero, godfather of gore, brought zombie cinema to life 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z With a title that evokes metaphoric heartbreak made literal, “Buster’s Mal Heart” imagines what might happen if a man’s core separated in two. Review | ‘Buster’s Mal Heart’ takes the metaphor of heartbreak literally 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z In reality, of course, there’s always a lot more hash piled on its collective and metaphoric plate. Alabama editorial roundup 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z “Having kept journals for that long, there’s the metaphoric weight and then there’s the literal weight of that many journals in boxes that you’re carrying everywhere.” The urge to be her: Trans activist Laura Jane Grace and the search for her true self 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Helping our Colombian friends beyond the metaphoric “great perhaps” of Marquez’s powerful and tragic novel is the right strategic move for the U.S., as well as sound moral judgment that will benefit the entire hemisphere. Why Real Peace in Colombia Matters to the U.S.—and the Rest of the Americas 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Literal and metaphoric; personal, familial, cultural and historic. New Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay drama 'Queen Sugar' a lyrical study in landscapes 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Their power is real not metaphoric, and the self-interest that drives it is far more squalid than it is poetic. Italy's most popular TV show, 'Gomorrah,' gets imported courtesy of Sundance 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Environmental scientists and engineers characterize sun-drenched cities as “heat islands,” a metaphoric reminder that outdoor temperatures experienced within such cities are palpably higher than in surrounding suburbs and exurbs. Architectural features make it easier for buildings to battle sun 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Heidegger wrote of a metaphoric pain, calling it the “joining of the rift.” ‘I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z I love to find out what metaphoric system people already bring to the Internet. “I’m in awe every day”: Virginia Heffernan on technology, virtual reality, and what the Internet means 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z “Women without a whistle – real or metaphoric – would ‘expose themselves’ and if they’re assaulted and no one does anything, it would be their fault for not whistling,” she wrote. Mexico City mayor ridiculed over plan to fight crime with plastic whistles 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Rock — or at least the anthemic, metaphoric, Hard Rock Cafe version of big rock — has become more socially accessible but less socially essential, synchronously shackled by its own formal limitations. Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember? 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z This contrast is the metaphoric tip of a multifaceted iceberg of challenges facing Clinton because she’s a woman.” The Daily 202: Why Republicans may ram Merrick Garland through during the lame-duck session 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z This contrast, which applies in today’s campaign as well, is the metaphoric tip of a multifaceted iceberg of challenges facing Clinton because she’s a woman. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Disliking Hillary Clinton 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But they end up in a metaphoric bull ring — free of actual blood, of course, this being a comedy by Yasmina Reza. Review: ‘God of Carnage’ Puts Parents in a Metaphoric Bull Ring 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Whether Mr. Bloomberg may be too urbane in the literal and metaphoric senses seems the more compelling question. Bloomberg’s Presidential Dreams, and Past Realities 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z And it has taken on metaphoric meaning now. The Most Mystifying Lines of Sarah Palin’s Endorsement Speech 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “You go around and around and back and forth, but eventually you reach a central point…Seeing the goal there, but not getting to it directly—there’s something metaphoric about that.” Labyrinths Offer Homeowners a Pathway to Peace 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “People want to travel before the metaphoric door closes in Europe,” said Abby Dwommoh, spokeswoman for the International Organization for Migration. Turkey Border Deal Spurs On Migrants 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z With a super-strength both metaphoric and spectacularly real, she offers us a whole new type of hero. Marvel's astounding 'Jessica Jones' rewrites the definition of superhuman 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z That’s two dead bodies so far, which means Cole leads a dangerous life that continually steeps him in metaphoric hot water. 'iZombie' recap: All bets are off in 'Max Wager' 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z This is not metaphoric sperm: This very stationary tree produces a wriggling, swimming sperm cell capable of fertilizing female ginkgo ovules. The Female Ginkgo Tree’s Acrid Smell of Success 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s shaped like a giant V for Vietnam and built into the earth like a metaphoric scar. Graphic Artist Michael Bierut on Logos and Emojis 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z I’ve always been very big on singing from a metaphoric standpoint. Cheerleader singer Omi on Taylor Swift and being the ‘wizard of love’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z They also struck, marched, organized, bombed and killed, launching decades of class warfare, literal and metaphoric, that would haunt the country’s elites for years to come. We have the left and right all wrong: The real story of the politics of nostalgia and tradition 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z And more important than the winning or wealth is that witnesses are there to admire your achievement, to hoist you up on metaphoric shoulders of envy. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Prosperity Gospel Is War on the Poor 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z It's a literal and metaphoric ascension to cinema's regal firmament. Cannes red carpet dance is a tightly controlled choreography 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s a literal and metaphoric ascension to cinema’s regal firmament. Cannes red carpet dance is a tightly controlled choreography 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z None of these individuals would qualify as “retiring,” in the literal or metaphoric sense of the word. How long do I have? I’m obsessed with this question. 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z “With his unerring ability to translate O’Neill’s malapropisms, Matthews quickly made the necessary metaphoric adjustment,” Frank writes. Congressman gives 'Frank' account of being gay in the 1980s 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z D’Angelo is worthy of the arrogance of Isaac Hayes, who, in 1971, called an album “Black Moses,” with no apparent metaphoric dodges, and the self-regard of Prince. D’Angelo Reborn 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Pollsters say that distance — metaphoric or physical — may end up hurting him more than the bridge scandal. Christie Roams, and Popularity Suffers at Home 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z The lyrics: “Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze/ Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees” are morbidly metaphoric to convey the imagery of victims, mostly black men, lynched by white supremacists. PR firm learns why 'Strange Fruit' is not fit for a company name 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z In the context of the image, the interaction between the two is metaphoric: a mortal kneeling before a goddess. When Glamour Speaks Your Name 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z No man’s land was a place between, without question, but as a physical and metaphoric landscape, it belonged entirely to the war. Book review: ‘No Man’s Land,’ war and peace post-9/11, by Elizabeth Samet But the franker hero worship of Trace – verging on agitprop, really – is light-years away from Sunflower Seeds’ sensitive metaphoric evocation of 1.3 billion Chinese. @Large: Ai Weiwei takes over Alcatraz with Lego carpets and a hippie dragon 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z She is a high-flyer in both the literal and metaphoric sense and now takes on one of the most difficult jobs in the media. City high-flyer Rona Fairhead appointed as new chair of BBC Trust 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z A “thing” can be the one strawberry at the ryokan I described above: the world stops, as the Japanese diner focuses on every sensual aspect, and every metaphoric implication, of the food. The Very Exotic Mind-Set of the Japanese Gastronome 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Raking across Mr. Obama’s face, in a picture devoid of the color brown, was a broad swath of off-white paint, a metaphoric blank screen onto which voters were invited to project their dreams and aspirations. Meditation on President Obama's Portrait 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z We are now convinced that you'll eternally forgo your metaphoric seat on the bus. Why is thinking such a pain? 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Somehow, even with more than eight million people, the city provides a literal and metaphoric breath of fresh air from Shanghai—even though the two towns are separated by just an hour-long bullet train ride. Your Tour Around China's Hottest Getaway 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z And right now, the metaphoric ball is Amazon’s nearly non-existent profit margin. What are Jeff Bezos and Amazon Really Up To? 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z His crime, in other words, became metaphoric of a much larger culture of violence, justification, and disavowal. When shootings happen, gender has to be part of the conversation 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Nobody wants to admit they’re wrong because it’s now a status game – and that’s where “winning” comes from, it’s a metaphoric struggle for life and death now and nobody wants to die. How to Win Every Argument 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Mandela is often called the father of the new South Africa, and he leaves behind an impressive legacy, even if the future of his metaphoric child, the Rainbow Nation, remains uncertain. Disappointment in Successors to Revered Father of a Nation 2013-12-07T03:57:44Z He layered reflections, employed camera motion and made metaphoric images that suggested stillness. Lens Blog: Photographing the Part of Buddhism That Can’t Be Seen 2013-07-23T09:00:43Z Your reaction demonstrates textbook pathology, manifesting unconscious metaphoric expression of the psychological instability we all face when our habitual ways of making meaning are threatened. E3 Inspires Woman-Bashing On Twitter 2013-06-11T16:53:35Z It’s the metaphoric equivalent of asking a known con man for his self-appraisal. Neuroscience needs its Einstein 2013-04-06T22:00:00Z But for patients, the chargemasters are both the real and the metaphoric essence of the broken market. Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us 2013-02-21T10:50:22Z During last year’s “Jargon Madness” tourney, a few readers suggested that some clichés had metaphoric flair. Business Jargon Bracketology: Which Annoying Corporate Buzzword, Clich� Or Euphemism Will Win Forbes' NCAA-Style Tourney? Vote Now! 2013-02-05T14:25:42Z They scheduled an appointment for the entire family. “meeting with parents — concern with ‘metaphoric’ speaking that appears to be outside the realm of appropriated one to one conversation. Concerns About A.D.H.D. Practices and Amphetamine Addiction 2013-02-03T02:15:57Z The toy represented the metaphoric monkey on Northwestern's back. The Quad: Will Northwestern Finally Win a Bowl Game? 2012-12-11T16:01:35Z At issue is the so-called “fiscal cliff,” a metaphoric ledge created by the Budget Control Act of 2011. The Fiscal Cliff And The Environment 2012-11-15T15:46:26Z An example of therapeutic interactive technologies is an incentive-based video game that translates physical exercise into mental empowerment via motivational metaphoric visualization in order to help patients psychologically overcome cancer. [Perspectives] Patient-Empowerment Interactive Technologies 2012-09-19T18:25:03.633Z So Darren Cahill, who helped match Murray with his wily coach, Ivan Lendl, would advise Murray to bring the same metaphoric weaponry he used on in the Olympic gold medal match to the 2012 . U.S. Open — Andy Murray’s Chance to Join the Big Three 2012-08-27T04:30:30Z He told Dr. Ellison that the pre-psychotic and metaphoric thinking back in March had receded, and that all that remained was his A.D.H.D. Concerns About A.D.H.D. Practices and Amphetamine Addiction 2013-02-03T02:15:57Z For Mr. Church, his original diagnosis became a metaphoric kick in the pants, resulting in a lifetime of good works. Essay: New Cancer Threat Lurks Long After Cure 2012-07-16T20:41:49Z The very fact that all the apparently historic events in the life of Jesus have an astrological and metaphoric character lifts him out of the category of physical humanity into that of the ideal. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z “So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that sports was right in the middle of the metaphoric pot of a roiling culture.” In 1968, Sports Helped to Temper a Year of Rage and Upheaval 2012-02-18T21:38:41Z But the little love-idyl was destined to an interruption, whether she interfered or not; for Glandore was pledged to go to the north--to tear himself from the arms of metaphoric Capua. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z The Holy Ghost was metaphoric of the salubrious summer winds in May, as the fire was of the scorching heat of the dog-days. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z Yet each step of Dr. V is metaphoric for his journey. India Ink: A Post-Retirement Vision That Helps Others See 2011-12-15T06:16:40Z Meanwhile, Occupy Wall Street’s demonstrators sit on the metaphoric doorstep of his city, proclaiming that his financier brethren are guilty of gross national neglect. Gotham Extra: Mayor Bloomberg and Those Third-Term Blues 2011-10-14T22:50:06Z In the digital world, thankfully, these casualties are more metaphoric than tragic, but the effects are quite dire in their own right. The Battle for Social Media Authenticity 2011-10-13T20:03:28Z In the sixth, the author treats of poetic words, and the poetic or metaphoric use of ordinary terms, of which he gives examples. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Others have made extensive folkloric and metaphoric use of animals, with the cast of characters tuned to suit local reality and pedagogical need. The Creature Connection 2011-03-14T17:14:39Z I ended my last chapter with mention of a metaphoric storm; but a literal storm broke over the city of London on that night, such as its denizens remembered for many a day after. The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z Do you think I could stand having my hands and feet tied—with phylacteries?' asked Leonard, becoming vividly metaphoric in the intensity of his repugnance to the galling bonds of orthodoxy. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z Maybe we're too invested in a metaphoric connection between the economy's health and ours. Economists explore link between unemployment and poor health 2010-10-09T22:39:00Z And, most notably, its utter simplicity was a metaphoric shot-in-the-arm for old-fashioned doctoring values. Doctor and Patient: An Important Vaccine Few Patients Are Getting 2010-06-10T16:26:00Z Directly across from the self-portrait is a work from around 1949 that serves as a kind of metaphoric portrait of the artist. | Long Island: Parrish Museum Presents ?Fairfield Porter: Raw? 2010-04-17T01:31:00Z Auriemma gave a fascinating psychological profile of Moore, recreating conversations between the two, drifting into metaphoric tributaries about golf and baseball, underscoring how even the best players need support and encouragement. Tournament Time: The Time to Let UConn?s Moore Be Moore 2010-03-30T01:10:00Z Even if the God is real, his sword is metaphoric. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' It carries with it an influence that can best be likened, in a metaphoric sense, to a mental aroma which soothes the jagged edges of the rougher senses. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country In truth, the charms of this magnificent maiden were worthy of metaphoric phrase. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness This metaphoric synthetic construct, "all-at-once," has allowed me to better convey how I experience the health nursing situation. Humanistic Nursing I repeated in a kind of poetical rapture the inimitable metaphoric epithet of the Poet of Nature; an epithet preserved so faithfully, and therefore with so much genius, by his English translator, Pope. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Fudge, in his letter to Lord Castlereagh, says— "As thou would'st say, my guide and teacher In these gay metaphoric fringes, I must embark into the feature On which this letter chiefly hinges." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 We demand not a looser, but a stricter; not a more metaphoric, but a more literal; not a more contemptuous, but a more reverent interpretation thereof.” p. 90So these men speak, rightly or wrongly. Westminster Sermons with a Preface Frederick's nerves were in a state of tension, not in a mere metaphoric sense. Atlantis These are metaphoric descriptions of a comparatively simple kind. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Or we are gossiping whispering neighbors, of the shoemaker, we will say, with our noses pressed against the pane of a metaphoric window. The Art of the Moving Picture It may be well to warn a beginner that he must not attempt this style until he has laid in a large stock of variegated metaphoric expressions. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 Now this tale is allegoric— It is figurative all, For the well is metaphoric And the feller didn't fall. The Devil's Dictionary Nevertheless, after the strange way of man, he was in a state of joyous excitement because his future, in a real and in a metaphoric sense, had been set in motion. Atlantis Had he been called upon to criticise his tutor's compositions, he might, like Johnson, have objected to the metaphoric turns of Lycidas, and have missed the melody of lines as musical as the nightingale. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Indeed, to assert that there has been any genuine development from the seed up to the finished tree is to use terms in an accommodated, metaphoric, and hypothetical way. The Nature of Goodness In general, the language appears to me too metaphoric; especially as used by all the characters. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 It can by no means be understood in its direct sense, but must be taken "in its metaphoric sense." Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Occasionally, the metaphoric location of the mind of a person in hack mode. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 Except for metaphoric qualifications, there is no such thing as drawing an abstraction of drawing, although there is abstract drawing. The Civilization of Illiteracy Ancient philosophy, important here for its testimony regarding language and literacy, is still so metaphoric that it can be read as literature, and actually was enjoyed as such. The Civilization of Illiteracy |
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