| 单词 | metaphorical |
| 例句 | “They think it’s a little silly. They like their demons metaphorical.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The metaphorical potency of Alexei’s illness was also undeniable—symptomatic of an empire gone sick, dependent on bandages and prayers, hemorrhaging at its core. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If so, the writing could not be fundamentally pictographic or metaphorical; rather, most of the symbols must stand for letters or syllables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In all the major European languages the same metaphorical use of a word meaning ‘uncover’ was soon adopted to describe the voyages of discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The different ways language becomes metaphorical, the different ways it performs, are given names. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Right, but surely you must have thought about what happens to them, I mean as characters, I mean independent of their metaphorical meanings or whatever.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Reed tells students they have to interview someone—a mother or father or grandparent—about their own portages, the moments in their lives when they’ve had to take a journey, literal or metaphorical. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And there’s a man whose son killed himself, who believes that the son must have been possessed by real demons, rather than fighting the more metaphorical ones inside. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z A ritual that seeks to feed my mind and would starve my somewhat metaphorical soul. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "Happened yesterday, at least according to Gary and Nick and the twenty-three other people who told me about it. On a swing set, apparently. Oh, the metaphorical resonance." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z When we write of ‘laws of nature’ the word ‘laws’, too, is being used in a metaphorical sense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not that my metaphorical underwear is particularly well hidden now. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “You choose your behaviors based on their metaphorical resonances ...” I said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z And while they’re naturalistically depicted, they seem to carry a metaphorical charge as well. Noted Seattle artist’s final show reveals he was vibrant to the end 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z “Manhattan,” a drama premiering Sunday night on the newly ambitious WGN America, valiantly tries to coax some radioactive clicks from whatever metaphorical half-life remains in the origin story of the bomb. WGN’s ‘Manhattan’: Hard to build but easy to bomb Not the kind of metaphorical control that implies empowerment or recovery, but literal control. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It is an infinitely applicable refrain, no matter what your metaphorical banana might be, or which cocktail seizes your imagination come quitting time. Harry Belafonte and the Social Power of Song 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z With the police arresting suspects on the one hand and columnists having arrested the usual metaphorical suspects on the other, there seems to be a consensus emerging that the riots are a bit passe. The Sunday Papers with ? Dreda Say Mitchell 2011-08-28T12:42:00Z Seidler, himself a lifelong stutterer, began "The King's Speech" as a play, and many of the most effective scenes retain a simple theatrical dynamic, one character playing a metaphorical tennis match against the other. 'King's Speech': A pair of restrained scene-stealers 2010-12-16T16:18:00Z But most song lyrics refer to metaphorical running as well as, occasionally, the actual thing. Readers recommend: songs about running 2012-07-26T21:00:00Z Words such as “riot,” words such as “thug,” combinations of words that are mostly metaphorical exaggerations, such as “the city is burning.” Is CNN as bad as everyone thinks it is? Yes ... and no. 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z "It's this great sort of metaphorical novel that actually happened," said "Titanic" director James Cameron. Titanic's legacy: A fascination with disasters 2012-03-31T22:31:05Z Beyond that, the show’s success also speaks to the versatility of the zombie genre — or, more precisely, the fact that there’s so much metaphorical potential to be found within it. What Makes The Walking Dead the Undead Ruler of TV? 2014-02-25T23:54:38Z In somewhat the same vein as Vermeer’s “The Art of Painting,” the painting has metaphorical meanings, to do with music, sight and studio life. Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The act of wrestling itself is an absorbing and obviously metaphorical contest. Cannes 2014: Foxcatcher review - Steve Carell gets to grips with his dark side 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z By not taking more specific aim, Jones lets formal qualities -- visceral immediacy, textural complexity and damage-driven process -- carry the bulk of the work's metaphorical weight. Works of defiant beauty by Samuel Levi Jones 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z As a literary device, this can be cumbersome, but it gives Mr. Ma enough metaphorical license to ask: Can reality be so harsh that a fetus might not want to leave the womb at all? Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z As with possibly no other composer in musical history, there's a literal and metaphorical universe of sound to explore in Stockhausen's work. A guide to Karlheinz Stockhausen's music 2013-05-07T16:40:45Z In other words, he’s missing so much — some of the greatest television ever made, much of it rich in instructive, metaphorical storytelling about power and moral consequence. Our president is a TV addict. It’s going to get the best of him, but he’ll never get the best of it. 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Figuratively, though, it is irresistible as a metaphorical harbinger: She and her date lost their footing at some point during the middle of their meal, and then limped to the finish line. Date Lab: She’s witty. He’s earnest. Will they mix well? 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The social contract between server and customer was that we existed in service to their experience, to their physical and metaphorical hunger. I’m not going back to work in restaurants — but only because I have a choice 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Joseph's diary-style monologues are at once impassioned, dizzyingly metaphorical and wittily self-effacing. Going green in black America at heart of Marc Bamuthi Joseph work 2012-05-31T23:32:14Z So for me it’s that idea of befriending what you’re afraid of on a metaphorical level. L.A. artist Marnie Weber reflects on why monsters hold such power for women 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z But what if it was more than a metaphorical conflagration? 'The Fireman' may be the best apocalyptic read of the year, if you can stand the heat 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z That metaphorical dimmer switch turned up one millimeter. “Vagina voter”: Witnessing the sexism hurled at Hillary in ’08 — and the assumptions made about her supporters — changed my life 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z That supermarkets would stock booksellers' metaphorical bread and butter as loss leaders – making the "secondary purchase" a carton of orange juice instead of a skilfully crafted mid-list novel. Net gains? 2010-06-17T09:02:00Z Umbilical, soft spine, artery — it divides the porous field in two, and like so many other marks and stitches in the artist's work, it resonates as a deeply metaphorical seam. Jane Hugentober's art meditates on time and the female body 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z But the screenplay for that mystical, romantic movie differs enormously from Fitzgerald’s satirical, deeply metaphorical and captivating story. Music Review: ?Benjamin Button,? the Opera, at Symphony Space 2010-06-16T21:11:00Z "It's something that exists in the world. It's not metaphorical. In Colombia, you will read headlines about 'Barney' killing 'El Chavo.'" Art born of the drug wars: Camilo Restrepo on 'narco bananas' and pen-on-paper violence 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The strength of the X-Men franchise has always been its metaphorical embracing of diversity; a celebration of the talented misfit in an age of bland conformity. X-Men: Days of Future Past review – star-stuffed extravaganza 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z He tells his son how his wife was the metaphorical kite, airy, drifting, ephemeral, while he was the line, steadfast, devoted, anchored to the earth. How The Haunting of Hill House conveys the horror of family 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Its crags, angles and lines constitute a virtual contour map and metaphorical mirror image of the rugged mountain territory he enters, equipped with telescopic rifles and elaborate traps. Movie Review: ?The Hunter,? an Australian Odyssey With Willem Dafoe 2012-04-05T22:10:03Z No wonder the couple retreat so eagerly into the inertia of alcohol and anti-depressants, a haven from the literal and metaphorical madness of their lives. The Garden | Theatre review 2010-03-26T23:30:00Z Its references to Jay Z are often metaphorical, representing Beyoncé’s relationship to American culture at large. Beyoncé brings her ‘Lemonade’ stand to CenturyLink Field 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The forest is a metaphorical place, where we can cast off limiting roles and identities. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Most often, they make lists: of a lover’s vows in “I’m Your Man,” of bitter realizations in “Everybody Knows,” of metaphorical choreography in “Dance Me to the Edge of Love.” Music Review: Leonard Cohen at the Barclays Center 2012-12-22T00:28:21Z In interviews, Mr. Barney is often deeply uncomfortable with questions about the meaning of his work or about his own life in anything other than metaphorical terms. Matthew Barney’s Most Punishing Tour: ‘River of Fundament’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Here, sport as a re-enactment – on a small scale – of the social contract is replaced by a lopsided metaphorical instantiation of sporting zeal. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z That said, it’s here and it’s not going away and it’s pretty good fodder for writers, whether actual or metaphorical. This Week in Fiction: David Gilbert on Writing About a Man Who Is Trapped as a Boy 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The big canvases are unstretched and fastened directly to the wall, a 1980s technique used by Leon Golub for brutal images of human torture; it emphasizes the painting’s surface as a metaphorical skin. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z If, for the 21st century, her warning is not quite factually spot-on, it carries a certain metaphorical heft. In a Battle for Female Personhood, These Plays Are on the Front Lines 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The normal definition of the metaphorical rabbit hole is something like: How to pull a friend out of the conspiracy theory rabbit hole 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Pinto, 25, at the Toronto International Film Festival to promote the movie, said her metaphorical stranger is not being able to live a fantasy such as working with Allen and co-star Josh Brolin. Freida Pinto plays object of desire in "Stranger" 2010-09-17T18:07:00Z And yet ghosts are so rich in metaphorical significance. Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z To take a story whose hero cannot lie, for whom metaphor is a foreign land, and put it on that most metaphorical of places, the stage. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z The lyrics of this track are a metaphorical journey through different cities all over the world. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z Dutta tries to mesh both into one cohesive plot in an attempt to tell a metaphorical horror tale that casts the monster as more than just a monster. "It Lives Inside": When a horror movie defangs its demon with poor metaphors 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The camera may follow a familiar protagonist through a metaphorical narrative that, suddenly, includes an A-list actor prominently cast in a small role. Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Their "yearning to breathe free" was not, therefore, only metaphorical. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z But this is probably the most difficult musical I’ve worked with because it’s so metaphorical.” How sign-language interpreters convey the raw emotion of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Typically, the choir's performance will blend the sacred with the secular, the metaphorical with the direct, in songs composed from the 12th to 15th centuries. Medieval Women's Choir sings of spring 2011-05-19T19:59:09Z There are plenty of metaphorical fish in the proverbial sea, but the expected patterns of how they should choose a mate are actually pretty limiting. ‘Do they really think I'm his mother?’: life with a younger, hotter boyfriend 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The mercury had crept, gasping, above 60, and this is a house perpetually associated with spring, metaphorical and otherwise. Critical Shopper: At Carven, the Clothes are Peppy and the Colors Pop 2014-03-25T22:18:50Z But inevitably things went south in more metaphorical ways. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Still, the production is lively, frequently funny and occasionally affecting, and it bends a clear-enough lens on Greenberg’s witty, personality-rich exploration of friendship, prejudice, group dynamics and the metaphorical potential of baseball. 1st Stage’s ‘Take Me Out’ swings for the fences but falls short in some areas A contemplative and unhurried speaker, she projects an air of calm but writes songs that betray her inner turmoil, like the metaphorical duck paddling madly beneath the smooth pond surface. The Future Is Big. So Courtney Barnett Still Sings About Small Things. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “The kitchen is the oven of the restaurant, both real and metaphorical,” one of the three chefs, Mateu Casañas, 41, says about the design. When in Barcelona, I’ll have what José Andrés is having 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The metaphorical ones come from the dizzying jumps in time that the viewer is expected to keep up with from the very start. Arrested Development recap: season four, episodes 1-5 2013-05-26T15:37:26Z Yanking the picture off the wall expands its literal and metaphorical dimensions. Review | In the galleries: An exhibition that draws attention to overlooked issues 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Considering Johnston's history of schizophrenia and Satanic delusions, it may not be metaphorical. Daniel Johnston – review 2013-06-04T17:31:48Z Is the dropping of his daughter's bracelet in the crater a metaphorical release for his grief? Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z The third section seems at first to be something of an interlude, adding sound-scape and atmosphere, but the player piano has metaphorical purpose. Poem of the week: The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium by Heather Hartley 2010-11-22T13:27:00Z This one, though, is not just a personal self-portrait but a metaphorical one. The 10 best … photographic self-portraits 2013-03-23T16:00:00Z The bags were sturdy, unflashy and constant to an almost metaphorical degree. Queen Elizabeth: A Visual Dictionary 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z As much as many people like to complain about the holidays, their actual experience remains fairly mild and any mention of nightmares is largely metaphorical. Five Holiday Movies to Stream 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z It was in a way shining a light onto it, which was sort of metaphorical to what was happening not only in this nation, but in the world. Tim Gunn’s Happy Place Is ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ Washed Down With Good Gin 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Whether we are meant to understand these connections as literally genealogical or just metaphorical, “Master” does not insist. Review: In ‘Master,’ the Flip Side of a Masterpiece 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The platform was more than metaphorical — a new stage with seating on multiple sides — but the crucial change seemed less a matter of perspective than of permission: a license to take risks. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Suddenly even miles and miles of endless sand – actual sand or the metaphorical desert of lockdown – doesn’t look so bad. Not a sprint: endurance experts on how to make it through lockdown 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The Endless, anthropomorphized personifications of human ideas, beliefs and states of being, already serves as a fountainhead of clever metaphorical narratives. ‘The Sandman’ Is Coming to TV. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In some places, the concrete wedges have acquired new metaphorical freight. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Why pay a special guest star if she’s just going to twirl her metaphorical villain mustache in the background of every scene but not do anything of note? Fall of Empire: show's big return is a lesson on how not to run a record label 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Some kind of tension, real or metaphorical, is primary for the life force of any music. Review: License and Restriction in a Work by La Monte Young at Dia Chelsea 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Tamblyn says those pieces of writing are talking about a “metaphorical death.” For Amber Tamblyn, writing poems about dead actresses was an ‘exorcism’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z When the midnight’s children join Saleem for chatty, contentious meetings, the camera’s focus goes soft, which seems fitting, as the children are mostly indistinct here, practically an afterthought, and without much metaphorical power. Movie Review: ‘Midnight’s Children,’ Adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Novel 2013-04-26T00:22:16Z New love is intoxicating, and I’m not being metaphorical. When the Cause of a Sexless Relationship Is — Surprise! — the Man 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z It's the only recent American film with even metaphorical relevance to the Arab Spring movement. Hollywood's summer of revolution 2011-09-14T18:01:00Z "Also, just in metaphorical terms, even the phrase 'Spring Break' and what it represents, what it can be, the idea of a destruction of innocence and disappearing into the night." Spring Breakers, a riotous take on modern America 2013-03-30T06:00:00Z There’s a lot of metaphorical weight in this speech, touching on isolation, distrust, superstition and more. ‘Burning Cane’ Review: Poverty and Despair in Rural Louisiana 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Straining to find a correlation, even metaphorical, between teenage hedonism and economic collapse, “Affluenza” never coheres. ‘Affluenza,’ a Take on the Real West Egg, by Kevin Asch 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z More than once, there are references to characters missing airplane flights, metaphorical and literal. Review: Mad Men's Time Machine Warms Up for Its Last Trip 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Call it intuition, a dramatic sixth sense, or screenwriting in metaphorical BLOCK CAPITALS! Rewind TV: South Riding; The Model Agency; Friday Night Dinner; Silk 2011-02-27T00:05:40Z My interest in Japan is – in a literal sense of course, but in sort of a metaphorical sense – that I'm using the idea of the outsider, the foreigner, as my own vehicle as well. Donald Richie obituary 2013-02-21T16:20:36Z But I think the compelling thing about 127 Hours is that it has no message, it has no metaphorical meaning. 127 Hours ? review 2011-01-06T22:05:00Z It's important to note that while some think Lightbringer is a physical sword, others believe it is metaphorical — an argument that lends further credence to this theory. This Game of Thrones Prophecy May Confirm Daenerys Is the Most Important Character 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Sometimes this expression is metaphorical as opposed to literal. “Who Is America?” and “Big Brother” separately and together illuminate our racial divide 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z They aren’t fully emotional or spiritual beings, but walking problems, as metaphorical as Ivan’s falcons and, like this movie, much tamer than they look. Review: ‘Aloft’ Trains an Eagle Eye on Human Misery 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z I’d attended enough Zoom meetings to know that “eye contact” had become metaphorical, a digital illusion mediated in both directions by the computer’s camera. Review: It’s Just You and Me and the Modem in ‘Here We Are’ 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z While many of us are metaphorical sun worshippers, some people seem to take the phrase a bit more literally. Poster poems: the sun 2013-06-07T13:28:26Z The sticky, formless material suggests both flesh itself and human life’s metaphorical connection to earth. Review | In the galleries: A revelatory exhibition by D.C. artist Jonathan Monaghan 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z You appreciate the execution, but the film is hindered by its lack of novelty and metaphorical weight. Ha Jung-woo Stars in ‘Kundo: Age of the Rampant’ 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z There may be literal and metaphorical pushback; do not meet this resistance with anger. Perspective | Getting an uncooperative 5-year-old from Point A to Point B 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z I arrive downtown in search of a metaphorical fly: the story of Ono’s first solo show. Finding Yoko Ono’s New York 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But maybe this choice has some metaphorical meaning, too. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 6: The End Is Near 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The show’s metaphorical critique got a bit more specific, as well. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: I Saw the Devil's Face 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The metaphorical significance of Zacarias’s work is open to discussion, but her fusion of painting and sculpture is exhilarating. Review | In the galleries: ‘Taking Territory’ exhibition finds the creative common ground 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z “He was always a really heavy drinker, and he wrote songs where he implied drugs were part of his life, but it was more metaphorical. Drug use was the main reason we lost touch.” How ‘Either/Or’ made Elliott Smith a star, and why a tragic glamour lingers many years after his death 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z That’s his subtly martial drum programming on “Animal Games,” a post-breakup song that begins with this metaphorical jab: “Your heart is like a dough/You shape it how you want.” New Music: 2 Chainz, Arctic Monkeys and Keith Urban Release New Albums 2013-09-09T22:11:48Z Clearly this was a good decision, but I wonder if the serene and spiritual Brand ever misses the metaphorical leap into pandemonium. Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you' 2013-02-03T20:00:01Z "It brought our family and our friends a lot closer, in a literal and metaphorical sense," Carson said. Drama camp veteran in parade knows Sandy's pain 2012-11-23T04:16:05Z In “A Monster Calls,” the title monster is not slain or sacrificed to provide such metaphorical closure. ‘A Monster Calls’: Talking Trees Are Easy. Truth Is Hard. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z With a grand, metaphorical conceit guiding them, the crew flew to the Western European island in November for four days of round-the-clock shooting. See Dierks Bentley's Stunning New 'Black' Music Video 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z "Complex, intellectual, modernist," it is another novel with a strong metaphorical life. Reader reviews roundup 2013-04-12T15:47:57Z I have become the type of person who expects that there will always be a metaphorical specimen bag left somewhere, and I can deal with it. Doctors lost an organ inside of me (and I feel fine) 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Part of the reason that she created an ornamental garden or maze – one filled with metaphorical briar patches — is to hide some of her feelings. | Marian Bantjes, Illuminated 2010-12-01T18:45:00Z Jase Clark’s prints achieve metaphorical and literal depth, in part by overlapping images on layers of clear plastic. Review | In the galleries: At U-Md. space, “UN/Sustainable” contemplates the environment 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Such doublings – mainly metaphorical, sometimes anthropomorphic – occur all the way through the show. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – review 2013-04-13T23:06:24Z The story line, which includes a metaphorical bank robbery, shifts in this production from the Midwest of the English-language version to the United States-Mexico border. Opera Review: ‘Vidas Perfectas,’ Spanish Version of a Robert Ashley Opera 2014-04-18T21:56:09Z And as the metaphorical curtain was coming down on Saturday, I started thinking about the kinds of Eastman concerts I have yet to hear. Now Celebrated, Julius Eastman’s Music Points to a New Canon 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Someone’s overeager heart is always on a sleeve in Mr. Kavner’s world, and someone else is almost always about to bolt for the door, real or metaphorical. | 'Fish Eye': Friends With Entanglements, Hoping for Benefits 2011-06-10T23:40:01Z Clicking on Adele's song may be like clicking on our own metaphorical morphine drip. Adele "30": The psychology of why sad songs make us feel good 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Once Jean-Paul and Marianne are exiled from their metaphorical Eden, they remain fully clothed for the rest of the picture, and the movie’s color palette becomes more autumnal. ‘La Piscine’ Review: Pretty, Rich People Behaving Poorly 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The phrase 'it went with a bang' is a pure cliche: its metaphorical sense does not exist any more. The search for the funniest Christmas cracker jokes 2010-12-19T00:06:25Z Artists submerge themselves with intimations of subconscious intuition, sexual abandon, mortal dread, ecological anxiety: all the metaphorical associations of the deep. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z At the same time, her biographer R. W. B. Lewis writes, she “felt propelled out of her metaphorical prison,” able to “exercise what Henry James had called a fantastic freedom.” How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z He’s made his peace and will have his reward in heaven or its metaphorical equivalent. Art Review: The Enduring Power of an Icon 2011-03-31T21:48:50Z Taken in late-afternoon natural light, the photographs exude an otherworldly atmosphere that reflects the family's self-contained, and occasionally magical, existence on the literal and metaphorical edge of a modern European city. The Garden: Alessandro Imbriaco photographs one family's exile to Eden 2013-02-15T12:27:38Z The subject is uncompromisingly focused upon as a series develops of metaphorical tableaux of unanticipated human wastage. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:19:00Z Not demons in the metaphorical sense, a euphemism for PTSD. ‘Demon Camp’: hounded by the dead and the devils of war 2014-02-19T20:12:24Z Then there are the movies themselves, which managed to engage the world, even as it shifted under their metaphorical feet. Oscar nominations try to make sense of a movie year that wasn’t even a year 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z As a metaphorical description of the death, this line is almost brutal. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z Fourth wall-breaking and concrete realizations of metaphorical descriptions — as in, for instance, getting slaughtered by the competition — are the norm here. How "Valley of the Boom," a story of tech world disruption, disrupts TV too 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z As in "Children of Men," where the world is gripped by an epidemic of infertility, the ailment here is also metaphorical. 'Perfect Sense': Whiffs of love amid sensory-loss epidemic 2012-02-16T21:36:10Z And this fall was supposed to bring the most dramatic of reveals, the most triumphant of returns, the fattest of special issues — the most deeply metaphorical cultural rebirth of all. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Disgust took on metaphorical uses; in opposition to the Aryan master race, the Jews were depicted as unclean – germs, cancer cells, rats. Dishing the dirt 2011-03-18T15:59:52Z The upstairs quarters, which included a study, a master bedroom and a guest room — also called a “stranger’s room” – were reached by a winding stairwell that Yeats used for both practical and metaphorical purpose. The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z At every turn, these episodes ask some version of the metaphorical "Do I not bleed?" "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The saga of the medical testing company Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, is a swirling one, packed with lies, greed, secret romance, literal blood, metaphorical blood, power, secrecy and money. Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes: What to Read, Watch and Listen To 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Despite the play's factual basis, much of this is historically implausible but, as the whole piece takes on a delusional air, it does have a metaphorical power. Sea and Land and Sky ? review 2010-10-15T21:01:00Z The 35 paintings and related gouaches at the Grey are amazingly weird metaphorical mélanges — rich with seductive painterly touches — that don’t mince images. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z Who gets to be the metaphorical “man on a horse?” As Confederate monument debate continues, Kehinde Wiley’s new statue challenges the heroic narrative 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Her metaphorical prison in The Handmaid’s Tale is no less bleak, brutal or dehumanising: the fictitious Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, where environmental factors have reduced the global birthrate to almost zero. Samira Wiley: ‘Margaret Atwood responded with a tongue emoji’ 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z And the only way that I could make sense of it was I thought about the women in my brain, the metaphorical different characters in my brain that take turns at the wheel. "GLOW" star Betty Gilpin on battling "implanted patriarchy" and women "cycling through selves" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z The sculptures are as dense with metaphorical implication as they are powerfully immediate. Getting physical with clay and fiber at Marc Selwyn 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The actors that play Roy's children were given the space to spread their metaphorical acting wings without Cox's heavy presence. Why Brian Cox's "Succession" Emmys nomination is receiving backlash 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z There's an aspect here of simply putting contrasting elements together to see what aesthetic and metaphorical charms might arise. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z We're not a thoughtful, engaged people; our ruminations are no longer metaphorical. Fast food: the reason behind our national incompetence 2012-10-06T23:06:03Z Sontag herself was treated for cancer and observed the destructive inclination to view the disease beyond its physical reality and instead as a metaphorical “diminution of the self”. Three Billboards' portrayal of dwarfism is reductive and ableist, and I would know | Eva Squire 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z All of these have in common a more or less explicit metaphorical conflation of war and sexual violence. Art Review: ‘Judith Bernstein: HARD’ at the New Museum 2012-12-20T23:01:31Z While Bradbury never lost that metaphorical sense of smell — he maintained his love of literature until his death on June 5, 2012 — Eller’s second volume of Bradbury’s biography is ultimately a melancholy and cautionary tale. Review: ‘Ray Bradbury Unbound’ by Jonathan R. Eller Is the voice of authority a metaphorical phantom? Kathleen Henderson's drawings are as searing and tough as ever 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z But on closer inspection, it's a farce with a metaphorical punch. This week's new film events 2013-04-20T05:00:13Z Yet if the stables seem a fitting backdrop for an altercation between Richard and Jack—and they do—it’s for metaphorical reasons. HBO’s “Silicon Valley”: The Gayest Straight Show on TV 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z There’s also a metaphorical vein to them that goes beyond straightforward depiction. September gallery highlights: From Antarctic ice to apocalyptic flames 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Sontag was alert to the ways reality can be distorted — in photographs, for example, or with metaphorical language, falsifications that numb our responses. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The drama veers from tweaked reality to extreme fantasy of a profound metaphorical dimension. What to Stream This Weekend 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z “There’s young,” Sarah says of Mandy, pausing to pull the metaphorical pin from the grenade, “and there’s embryonic.” | 'Time Stands Still': Wounds of War Run Deeper Than Ever 2010-10-08T02:01:00Z Supercharging those expectations are the stirring views that fill the windows of this Modernist landmark, the gunmetal Hudson right there to remind you of the mighty currents, metaphorical and otherwise, that power the city. Men’s Wear Hustles to Stay in the Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Enacted on a platform emblazoned with traditional patriotic symbols, this “Assassins” speaks to a wide-ranging consideration on New York stages this fall of the metaphorical holes in the Stars and Stripes. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Everywhere, there is a patiently rational and metaphorical approach to the miraculous. Film review: Lourdes 2010-03-25T22:25:00Z The tracks that follow all worm their metaphorical way into your fruit basket, as it were. The 19 greatest double entendre songs 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z While no first date is a metaphorical walk in the park, the activity itself is a good choice, says social anthropologist Jean Smith. Ditch candlelit dinners: five activity dates to try – from bowling to board games 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Is it a clever metaphorical take on gender role reversal that he frequently describes the physical looks of men and not of women? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z But he is only a fiddler in the metaphorical sense of all the villagers of Anatevka, trying to scratch out a simple tune without breaking his neck. In ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ a Title Role Shared Onstage and Off 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Themes recur, motifs overlap; characters from different stories grapple with similar concerns: time, impermanence, literal and metaphorical weight. Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z I like all of its meanings, literal and metaphorical. Jay McInerney on brightness, couples and catastrophe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z At the same time, there’s the factionalism and the metaphorical implications of the zombies. ‘The Walking Dead’ Says Goodbye to Andrew Lincoln. Sort Of. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z America in the 21st century would seem to offer a sturdy frame for the metaphorical canvas being stretched here, in which the gold-encrusted privileged class indulges its excessive appetites while an empire crumbles. Theater Review: ‘Feast’ by Andrew Ondrejcak at Incubator Arts Project 2012-07-17T22:21:57Z Psalm 23's metaphorical language has produced many interpretations. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z Given how metaphorical Cheever was, I don’t think he necessarily meant literal death. Mary Gaitskill on the Relationship Between Love and Torture 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Both titles boldly underline the metaphorical significance of the film’s literal journey — a road-trip from Munich to the Mediterranean by way of the Swiss Alps. | 'Vincent Wants to Sea': A Mission to See 2011-06-26T22:57:21Z “It’s just fascinating to me as this metaphorical object of ‘pure whiteness’ — but it’s made with animal fat, pork fat, so it’s very unstable and changes.” With disco balls and gorgeously cinematic installations, this artist is creating deeply subversive work at the Frye 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z He feels he is privileged to sit around the metaphorical table with teenagers. John Green: 'I'm tired of adults telling teenagers that they aren't smart' 2013-02-27T16:04:45Z It touches, radiates hope, and offers metaphorical cheeseburgers. Amy Poehler Says 'Bring Tissues' for 'Parks and Recreation' Series Finale 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In his most striking pieces, the literal and the metaphorical fuse seamlessly. 3 don’t-miss gallery shows around Seattle, May edition 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Many of Balabanov's films are metaphorical black comedies that gaze unflinchingly at the bleakness and violence of the last days of communism and post-Soviet society, with classic Russian rock music on the soundtrack. Aleksei Balabanov obituary 2013-05-19T17:18:05Z In “1994,” his portraits may not reveal so much about who each child is, but they accomplish something else: a metaphorical evocation of time’s slow erasure of the past. The Children of Bad Memories 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z We never land on this, or any, conclusion, but toward the play’s end, Bobbi offers a remedy to the group’s literal and metaphorical mourning: gratitude. Review: A Drowsy Night at ‘Grief Hotel’ 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z It is the tension between the actual and the metaphorical that gives her sentences their enormous energy and restraint, though in her middle work, the balance does not always hold. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z This kinetically charged composition, carved in extraordinarily refined detail, is a marvel of formal and metaphorical concentration. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z “I love how metaphorical her work is. It becomes an event, and there’s almost a mystical feeling because everything comes together so tightly in her stagings.” Anne Bogart Is Not Entirely Retiring 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes that sense of dislocation is literal in his movies, and sometimes it is metaphorical. Haile Gerima?s Films Mirror Ethiopia?s Struggle 2010-03-29T22:08:00Z In “Queen & Slim,” the system is inundated by a metaphorical flood. The Powerful Perspective of “Queen & Slim” 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But I found in them an unexpected beauty, both literal and metaphorical. Art in Review: Marc Quinn: ‘All the Time in the World’ 2013-05-23T19:12:12Z She not-so subtly draws biblical parallels to Tore's plight — complete with a metaphorical resurrection. 'Nothing Bad Can Happen' contradicts itself: It's cruel 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “To us, Satan is a symbol of pride, liberty and individualism, and it serves as an external metaphorical projection of our highest personal potential,” the Church wrote on its social media pages. The Church of Satan approves of Christian Bale using the Devil for inspiration to play Dick Cheney 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The archive is not metaphorical, but a storage unit full of photos, video footage and costumes. Can Peaches Still Fit in Those Pink Hot Pants? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s in the tracks about religion and metaphorical death on which something else emerges. New Music: New Albums From Grace Potter, Josh Turner and Fly 2012-06-11T22:38:11Z It's a bumpy ride; there are lessons to be learned along the way, metaphorical cobbles. TV Review: Call the Midwife 2013-01-20T21:00:01Z “The Blue Touch Paper” takes its title from the British term for something used to light fireworks, whether literal or metaphorical. David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z When they engage in a game of chess — a real one, though the metaphorical aspect is also there — you might have to fan yourself. What to Stream on Valentine’s Day 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Two of the paintings in Adrienne Gaither’s “Eye Don’t See Color” series are built from blocks of various flesh tones; in the third, blues and reds bracket solid black-and-white, metaphorical but not literal skin hues. In the galleries: Shiny fantasy worlds, undercut by body parts and company logos 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “Trust me, I play great female records and we’ve got some right now; they’re just not the lettuce in our salad,” he added, concluding with metaphorical flourish, “The tomatoes of our salad are the females.” Kacey Musgraves and Other ‘Tomatoes’ Give Country Its Bite 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But while the signifiers in Mr. Nelson’s works have much to do with industrial and commercial culture, they also have another, metaphorical implication. Mike Nelson: ‘Gang of Seven’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z This is the band’s second concept record, after “The Monitor,” from 2010, which used the Civil War in various metaphorical ways. Review: Titus Andronicus Releases a Punk Opera 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Regine Petersen also intrigued with her strange visual narrative, Find a Falling Star, about meteorites and their impact, both real and metaphorical. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review 2012-07-07T23:06:03Z Lacking the metaphorical richness of her videos, they add more color than substance to the exhibition. Art Review: Altfest, Barlow, Dean, Djurberg and Liden at New Museum 2012-06-07T22:17:35Z This designation places her in the company of writers from Shakespeare to the Brontës, and also carries an unmistakable, not entirely metaphorical trace of class distinction. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z He had planned to reacquaint himself with his metaphorical madeleine, the cheese and olive pie, but no dice — or slice, even. Finn Wittrock of ‘Judy’ Visits His Old Juilliard Haunts 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Part of Ms. O’Donnell’s pitch for the job played up the possibilities presented by cross-pollinating podcasting with the theater; playwrights are studied in telling stories with dialogue that are laden with metaphorical opportunity. The Best New Social Thriller Is a Podcast 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But why do a bunch of undulating planks and female singers dangling from wires represent a closer execution of Wagner’s theatrical vision for this scene than more daring, playful or metaphorical realizations? Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z But Blank is equally concerned with what it means and how it feels to be an artist, which is to say a maker of metaphorical masks and literal alter egos. ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Review: Rapper’s Delight 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z “Right there,” Sheridan says, metaphorical hammer in hand, “I just wreck it.” With ‘Wind River,’ Taylor Sheridan continues to smash western stereotypes 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z And, unlike so many he-man super stories of the multiplex, it doesn’t involve a long and excessively metaphorical origin tale. The real key to ‘Supergirl’s’ success? Millennial wish-fulfillment. 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Alas, today’s border walls, whether real or only metaphorical as in a post-Brexit England, are dismal signs of provincialism, pettiness and decline. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z When Ki-woo is presented with the rock, he coos: “It’s so metaphorical.” Built on rock: the geology at the heart of Oscars sensation Parasite 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Even the opposing force within the play’s metaphorical war is a mystery: Perhaps it’s any country or peoples that the U.S. government calls enemy, or perhaps it’s the racist citizens in the characters’ backyards. ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Shortly afterward, he pulled up the metaphorical drawbridge when the cognoscenti ridiculed an exhibit of his daring collection. Pa. art collection completes controversial move 2012-05-18T17:01:15Z These works exude nostalgia for the touch of the human hand, but as high-concept spins on process art, they lack the warmth and metaphorical depth of his clothing sculptures. Art Review: Getting Small: A Man?s World, in Miniature 2010-12-02T22:49:00Z “Just because you start acting right it doesn’t mean I’m going to forget about your past,” he says, picking up a metaphorical gavel. 'People talk about Sicario as if it's a documentary:' Benicio Del Toro on his new thriller 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Just as a train feels like a metaphorical throwback, the film's look is distinctly marked by the past as well. Hurtling along in Bong Joon-ho's train movie 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Yet, the collection itself dealt with the idea of honesty and transparency in a metaphorical way: Through color. Balmain calls for peace and truth in Paris Fashion Week show 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Both characters are feral in a different way as they engage in their metaphorical battle, and they also display moments of humor and grace. Sia has nothing to apologize for: Her “Elastic Heart” video isn’t perverted 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z “Walking Song,” a hymn to companionship, takes on a haunting metaphorical resonance when played as an elegy. Movie Review: ‘Sing Me the Songs,’ a Tribute to Kate McGarrigle 2013-06-25T22:29:46Z This is apparently not a metaphorical observation: pet rabbits, neighbors and the public library have apparently vanished into thin air. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Boy Detective Fails? and ?The Hollow? at Signature Theater 2011-09-30T23:30:21Z Whether these are metaphorical barriers or the sort that keep Mexicans out of the US, this can only be a reference to one man. Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman: 'Everybody’s minds are opening up' 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z She’s processing reality through a metaphorical device, re-creating the mechanism of the book that she herself is embedded in. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The entire episode is a metaphorical parody of storytelling structures and tropes, and Rick explains the only way to combat his enemy, the Story Lord, is to call up on The Greatest Story Ever Told. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z You can't just obliterate the planet, which is a really funny on a metaphorical, big scale of anger and pain. "Resident Alien" star Sara Tomko on otherness and relationships: "It's so hard to be human 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z “Holy Toledo” is nearly as good, more metaphorical and poetic, but equally wrenching. Idol Bowersox doing her own thing 2010-12-13T20:36:07Z The title sets out both the metaphorical and literal position of the absconding woman. Poem of the week: Interstate by Anne-Marie Fyfe 2011-04-11T09:39:57Z The best dystopias extrapolate issues in our society and make us see them more clearly by literalizing their metaphorical conceits. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Back then, Newcastle and the capital were separated by metaphorical light years, as proved by the sense that Caine's character had left one discrete reality, and entered quite another. Get Carter: In search of lost Tyne 2011-03-03T22:00:01Z For most of us, if a Great White Whale entered our life and changed it forever, the experience would be metaphorical. Review: ‘Ray Bradbury Unbound’ by Jonathan R. Eller Galbi, the main dish, is so metaphorical —you cut the rib so the meat stays on the bone. In Wayne Wang's poignant "Coming Home Again," a son cleaves to his dying mother by cooking galbi 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z “Bluebird” also could have done without that metaphorical bluebird, which reappears one too many times. Review: In ‘Bluebird,’ Momentary Distraction Sets Off a Chain of Misery 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Townes van Zandt – Flying Shoes I believe the flying shoes in this song to be metaphorical. Readers recommend: Insulting songs 2010-04-15T23:01:00Z "Dizzying" is sometimes used as a metaphorical term of praise; here it's more of a health warning. Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell - review 2012-05-25T21:55:06Z Does this metaphorical battle center on the proper placement of a fence between the two houses? 10 plays to see this fall 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z One such riddle relies on synonyms and homonyms, requiring the solver to climb through both literal and metaphorical definitions to arrive at the eventual answer: poetry itself. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z I've been lucky to work with prop masters in the past who allowed me to add breadth through food to what is already scripted because that's typically just the metaphorical meat and potatoes. Long days, papier-mâché and 50 soufflés: How the food stylist for "Julia" recreated Child's recipes 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The language is rich and metaphorical, yet never sounds unnatural, while the dialogue flows seamlessly into lyrics sung to Richard Taylor's disquieting music. Yerma ? review 2011-03-14T18:12:45Z “We’re trying to walk this line between maintaining the metaphorical and poetic world, and also trying to deliver a satisfying story,” Ms. Mitchell said. An Unexpected New Stop on the Road to Broadway: Edmonton 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z A common element in so many stories of breakdown, awakening, and transformation is the metaphorical ‘salmonella’—an event or experience that forces us to revisit our lifestyle choices, whether we’re ready to or not. How 3 Startup Founders Bounced Back 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Not that anything is theoretical: If most plays of liberation involve trite slogans and metaphorical pickets, it’s bracing to see one that’s a drama instead of a diorama. Review: Getting Intimate at ‘Dr. Ride’s American Beach House’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The simple message was obvious, even if it is metaphorical. Brazilian artist's image of starving child kicks up a World Cup storm 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z And now it has its metaphorical haversack over its brave, small metaphorical shoulders and is trotting off to do some Youth Hostelling in Indonesia without me. The novel's nearly out. Time to start telling people about it 2011-07-18T08:48:35Z The metaphorical aspect of the performance becomes apparent as this mill-worker incarnation gets his hands dirty, producing charcoal sticks and smearing marks on to the canvas walls. Nikhil Chopra's three-day industrial revolution 2013-07-08T15:19:02Z At a stretch, the alien hordes take on a metaphorical significance now, too. Trailer trash 2011-08-13T23:06:21Z We often talk of the "material" that composers use, which is usually a metaphorical sleight of hand that tries to turn a bunch of notes into so much clay. A guide to Rebecca Saunders' music 2012-11-05T15:47:54Z Immediately, the death implicit in the setting has become visible, corporeal, though still metaphorical, in a particular way. ‘Last Ward’ Review: Ashes to Ashes, Dirt to Dirt 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z While there is that dogmatic dimension, the religious ambience adds a deeper metaphorical resonance. Art in Review: Sherrie Levine: ‘Red Yellow Blue’ 2014-05-09T01:33:46Z The orchards of the title are perhaps metaphorical, the fruit a symbol of Pissarro's cornucopia of ideas about painting and social justice, and his seminal influence on younger artists. Poem of the week: Pissarro's Orchards by Marianne Burton 2013-06-24T10:20:03Z This is the ultimate ex-husband myth: the ex who won't leave your side, until he takes a metaphorical bullet for you. "Mrs. Maisel" and the myth of the sacrificial ex-husband 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Like Anderson, who played the violin while trapped in ice skates attached to their own blocks of ice, McLaren's alienation within the city is rendered beautifully, absurdly metaphorical. How downtown New York changed British theatre 2011-03-16T16:14:12Z Despite his fixation with both literal and metaphorical black, Mr. Delfin is by far the most colorful character on the Spanish fashion scene. Playful and Sleek, With Subversive Twists 2010-08-02T14:35:00Z Is it important to you for the names of major characters to have metaphorical value? ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z One might expect a poet’s prose to be florid, or at least highly metaphorical. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z And when he fails, the hovering storm clouds are both literal and metaphorical. Books of The Times: New and Old Worlds Clash in James Sturm?s ?Market Day? 2010-04-25T22:23:00Z The violence, she added, is metaphorical and not something that kids will find scary. Here’s how Ted van Griethuysen winds down: Playing all the parts in ‘Hamlet’ 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z This is a rom-com that shows inequity grimly and clearly — as if the eponymous metaphorical pup were flashing its teeth. Review | Tickets are limited and temperatures are taken, but indoor theater in D.C. is back 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Time and again, Harris asserts that things which have but a distant or metaphorical connection with his capitalist bête noire are in fact structural components of it. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z The scores to “The Winter’s Tale” and “The Merchant of Venice” cast only metaphorical spells, of course. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z “There’s a metaphorical element to this town, as a stand-in for small towns all over America,” Robbins tells the Guardian from a hotel suite overlooking Central Park South, and from there he’s off. Tim Robbins: 'With the exception of America’s native tribes, we're all new here' 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Though Yorke is not a trained dancer, he is a convincing physical presence here, pushing against the tides of modernity in both literal and metaphorical ways. Thom Yorke’s “Anima” Is His Best Solo Album 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Four curious characters eke out a meager existence in a metaphorical, metaphysical realm in Samuel Beckett's classic Absurdist drama. Theatrical works to see in spring: From 'A Gentleman's Guide' to John Leguizamo to 'Shakespeare 400' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z References like those — and a digression about the couple’s politics — are oddly literal for a nearly metaphorical story about art and mortality. In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z In the in-between times, that metaphorical rope gets shorter and shorter. ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z But Scalzi and his metaphorical bluegrass banjo may be about to cross into the mainstream. John Scalzi conquers the publishing universe 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z It was often Schumacher’s job to be the practical one, figuring out how Russell’s profusely metaphorical ideas might actually work onstage. A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Our quest, right now, is to understand this: Why do artists let her burrow through their crannies — literal and metaphorical — in the first place? Sociologist Sarah Thornton scrutinizes the insular art world The camera in “Cicada” dwells on scars, literal and metaphorical. ‘Cicada’ Review: A New Relationship Buds as Old Wounds Reopen 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z With midrange adult dramas increasingly being concerned with personal portraiture and psycho-emotional catharses, sharp, thematically pertinent movies are in danger of being relegated to metaphorical kitsch, however smart and well executed. Perspective | ‘Get Out’ shows how genre can address serious issues. Why can’t serious drama? 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Does this metaphorical battle center around the proper placement of a fence between the two houses? Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2018 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The crucial element of horror is political and moral—the realities that metaphorical fantasies evoke. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z There is the director Nick Broomfield remarking on the metaphorical whipping he took from a dominatrix featured in his 1996 documentary “Fetishes.” Nicole Kidman, Adrien Brody and Ruth Negga at Chanel Pre-Oscar Dinner 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Naturally enough, in a story about a tainted emotional legacy and a virus that invades a person's DNA, Roth is hyperalert to the possibility of creative slippage between literal and metaphorical inheritance. James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z That's no accident: If she can only find or get to that elusive river, a metaphorical rebirth — getting back to those happier, younger days — is within reach. The solace of Joni Mitchell's "River," a holiday song that defies merry and bright expectations 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The collision makes Filth a rumpus as enjoyable as it is repellent — a metaphorical slasher movie you can sing along to. REVIEW: Can Filth Live Down to Its Title? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Kron: ‘Angels’ put us at the center of the intellectual universe as gay people, and showed that gay people can be the metaphorical stand-ins for all people. ArtsBeat: What 'Angels in America' Meant to Them, And to You 2010-10-25T13:34:00Z Now people think it has some more lyrical, metaphorical meaning. Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese Seek a Missing New York in ‘Pretend It’s a City’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z And if this metaphorical door refuses to budge? The Goofy Charm of DJ Khaled’s “The Keys” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z “The Gathering Storm” is meant to be a metaphorical title as well as a literal. “The Circus” host calls Steve Bannon’s propaganda film “a cinematic reach-around” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z He’s interested not in ideas but in experience and sensation, which he describes in language that’s vivid, direct and often metaphorical. Opposites Attract: Paul Auster Meets Stephen Crane 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z You don’t get to make art without some metaphorical and often literal blood, sweat and tears. Stop saying you’re sorry: “Women will apologize to inanimate objects for bumping into them” 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Either way, the only metaphorical cues you really need are in the song’s title and the singers’ voices. Perspective | Kenny Rogers made life’s rough edges feel smooth 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z The supernatural forces that animate “Beauty Is a Wound” make metaphorical sense, but restless spirits are more than metaphors for many Indonesians. A Writer’s Haunting Trip Through the Horrors of Indonesian History 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z That song, a blunt, anguished, barely metaphorical reckoning with the intimate psychic violence of racism and sexism, is performed several times by Noni, the film’s suffering pop star. ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z He falls for Daphne, which sets off a poetically exalted, confusingly metaphorical duet, in which he lures her with visions of the sun, which appears to be his personal realm. Review: In ‘Daphne,’ the Cleveland Orchestra Takes on a Difficult Strauss Opera 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The inferno isn’t just metaphorical; IMDb’s scant cast list includes “Woman near fire”. Cannes 2019: 20 films we hope will be at the film festival 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z This, he argues, profoundly confuses actual violence in the real world with the metaphorical violence on stage. Noises off: Edinburgh festival bloggers, we feel your pain 2010-09-03T13:51:00Z “When you live next to a volcano, real or metaphorical, the day is filled with so many events that it proves physically impossible to remember them all,” he wrote. Ukrainians Turn to Diaries for Solace, and to Share Life in Wartime 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z One is a cover of the bolero standard “La Copa Rota,” which has been performed by José Feliciano and others, a story of jealous rages and open wounds both real and metaphorical. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z The novel too slows down, in sentences that are spare and condensed, without much metaphorical decoration, but Mr. DeLillo was reluctant to take much credit for that. 2010-02-03T22:36:00Z A complete understanding of the moment passes between them: something about loss and change, real and metaphorical scars, boldness and honesty. ‘Love Is All You Need’: Grown-up romantic comedy delivers 2013-05-23T20:23:57Z These metaphorical acts allow both Condé’s writing and her food to transcend national or cultural delineation. Writing, and Cooking, Across Borders 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z "Adr1ft" is an experiment in video game storytelling, pushing the medium to deal with more emotional and private material, and to do so largely in a metaphorical sense. 'Adr1ft' helps 'shamed' game designer pull his life back together 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z "The Supreme Price" may sound like a metaphorical title, but after seeing this strong, forthright documentary, you'll understand it's the literal truth. 'Supreme Price' tallies the cost of seeking change in Nigeria 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Grandin also inserts “interludes” about Melville’s thoughts on slavery and his metaphorical use of blacks in slavery to represent the individual in a meaningless universe. ‘The Empire of Necessity’: No free people on this slave ship 2014-01-22T22:32:11Z It reminds us not to get too literal, that the theatre supports metaphorical worlds in which stories can become epic, and that a play needn't be well behaved or tidy for it to be robust. Sarah Kane's debut play Blasted returns 2010-10-24T20:31:00Z But more problematic than the dramatic metaphorical clutter is Smith and Schraiber’s inability to meet the complexity and power of the Sibelius score, with its lush mixture of lyricism, Romanticism and folk rhythms. Review: A Dance Gushes With an Outpouring of the Inner Self 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z As with any series, one can interpret “Cobra Kai” in the literal sense or view it through a metaphorical lens. "Cobra Kai" returns: Will the "no mercy" way of fighting win? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The dread signs — how e-blather can fester into a metaphorical Ebola — are especially rampant among the students in a Texas high school. Review: Men, Women & Children Shows How Sexting Is Ruining America 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The characters and symbols are clearly personal for Martin — and he includes many self-portraits — but Martin's reticent explanations for his iconography are often as mystifying and metaphorical as his paintings. Review: James Martin's weird, wondrous works at Foster/White 2011-02-17T21:33:15Z From that start, Mr. García Márquez slowly developed his own distinctive voice — a voice with the sinuous rhythms of Faulkner and Joyce, the metaphorical reach of Kafka, the dreamlike imagery of Borges. An Appraisal: The Work of Gabriel García Márquez 2014-04-18T01:44:10Z In spoken drama, where there is no equivalent pressure to justify why the people keep making speeches, characters who are performers will tend to have a metaphorical significance, exploring issues of pretence and simulation. Theatre about theatre shows there's no business like show business 2013-03-08T09:30:01Z McEwen is not afraid to alert us to any possible metaphorical or secondary applications of the terms he uses. The 5 Simple Machines by Todd McEwen – review 2013-04-02T10:57:00Z The filmed sequence is deceptively simple yet painfully unnerving, seeming to suggest metaphorical dramas of inner and outer worlds of vision and darkness. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-15T00:06:09Z Ki-woo is also fond of identifying events in the real world as “metaphorical,” with the studied blankness of a young person raised on social media to be both sharply observant and entirely ruthless. "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Subsequent years found him functioning as the patriarchal head of a metaphorical Superfamily and a transformative avatar of identity fluidity in the 1950s and ’60s, and a successful Super-Yuppie in the 1980s. Why Superman Deserves More Respect 2013-02-21T17:39:34Z Pregnancy is weighted with so much metaphorical significance that it is even a metaphor for significance — pregnant with meaning. The Many Violations of the Violent Birth Scene 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z But the cadence and detail of the lyrics — which recall the collapse of a relationship, complete with a metaphorical nod to ghosts — more clearly suggest a contemporary band, like Okkervil River. Review: Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam Evoke Dreams and Ghosts 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Silberman transformed that grief into the metaphorical concept of "Hospice," recounting the relationship between an ill child and caretaker in a cancer ward. A 'Familiars' story: Antlers' Peter Silberman finds spiritual center 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “But Australia is still uniquely isolated, so our concept of the world is already different. We see ourselves more as outsiders, and in the arts, that feeling becomes metaphorical.” In Sydney, Lively Culture Amid Natural Beauty 2014-04-11T18:04:18Z Ah well, the Bishops shouldn't beat themselves up too much -- Alt-livia's cookie, both literal and metaphorical, is too hard to resist. "Fringe" recap: Two worlds collide 2010-12-03T13:30:00Z Ms. Thomas was a metaphorical explorer of deep mental space, a fellow traveler of the Afrofuturists, as Ms. Haynes observes in her catalog essay. ‘Alma Thomas,’ an Incandescent Pioneer 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z “Burn it down”—another nascent feminist slogan—is generally received as an abstract, metaphorical directive. The Case Against Contemporary Feminism 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Finn Ross’s video projections include both purely literal images and more metaphorical hints of landscape and water. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z A great house in the English countryside, seen in both the 1600s and the mid-20th century, is the venue for a historical novel that uses walls, both actual and metaphorical, as its presiding metaphor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z It’s the immigrant story taken to a creepy extreme, as old as “The Addams Family,” “The Munsters” and any other metaphorical representation of the paranoia and xenophobia that greet most outsiders. Review | ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ finds a little life left in the mockumentary format 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Benoliel was not the first person this fashion season to use the runway as a metaphorical platform. Meet the Chanel Crasher 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z A fearful journey, as redolent of terror as of transfiguration, and culminating in a metaphorical death. The Oracle; Erhebung; Mayerling – review 2013-06-08T23:05:19Z “Exhausted Autumn” takes a more metaphorical approach, juxtaposing what look like wilted cornstalks over the image of a stag, a symbol of virility. Tony Greene: Melancholy in paint, given new dimension at MAK Center 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The symbolism of the graveyard upheaval does not escape her: “Sometimes the metaphorical significance of a random event startles with its application to your life,” Lorna thinks. Review | ‘Le Divorce’ was a ’90s sensation. Diane Johnson is back again with another hit. 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z A show that, in its early going, had felt like a vital part of the culture seemed to have been replaced at the metaphorical water cooler. Review: 'Orange is the New Black' Rebounds With a Majestic Fourth Season 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Eliot, they do have metaphorical import for humans. Review: ‘On a Clear Day,’ Eternally Odd, Gets Yet Another Life 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Red splatters are more than metaphorical for Mr. Dean. A Quieter Side of Swizz Beatz 2012-09-28T19:46:44Z "I was expecting something more metaphorical," she said. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z "It's oblique and metaphorical and poetic at a time when those things are unfashionable in the theatre," says Stephens. A Thousand Stars' end of the world show 2010-05-10T21:00:00Z Hardly an escape from all that, CBS All Access’s so-so revival of Rod Serling’s classic TV series is more like taking a metaphorical highlighter pen to the times we live in. Review | ‘The Twilight Zone’ returns, in case anyone needed the extra anxiety right now 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z The new building – thankfully not funded via the Building Schools for the Future scheme – is based on the same, metaphorical foundations. Midsummer Night's Dream by Lake District pupils 2010-07-20T07:30:00Z And after the dark, dark time we’ve been through, this year’s winter solstice, marking the start of slow climb back into light, may carry more metaphorical weight than usual. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Just when the frippery and the metaphorical Proustian scent of Calla lilies seems overwhelming, the show stiffens up with men’s fashion. The Fashion Show From the Belle Époque 2012-10-08T13:33:21Z I won’t say what happened to Jacky, which is shown in a sickening flashback midway through the film, except that it explains his behavior and has a deepening metaphorical resonance as the story continues. Movie Review: ?Bullhead,? Directed by Michael R. Roskam 2012-02-16T23:52:20Z Even the lightest entertainment is really a way of engaging with your world on a metaphorical level. You Can Stream, but You Can’t Hide 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Blackstock said he was captivated by the “clarity of voice and the metaphorical, rich prose,” and by Nguyen’s provocative subversion of the spy thriller. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Simons said the Prada uniform ‘’is not literally as we perceive them when we hear this word, not army or police uniforms, but effectively true metaphorical ones.’’ Prada-Simons dialogue launches in virtual Milan preview 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The overall theme reflects the metaphorical spirit of pathos when a cut flower is held in the human hand. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-26T00:07:56Z That was quite a metaphorical moment at the end of Sunday’s episode of “The Newsroom,” though I’m not sure Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator, intended it as such. 'The Newsroom' Recap: The Wedding and Then the Slammer 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z “Mirage” is eager to judge in a distant, broad sense: It’s a lens designed to frame literal and metaphorical views of desert sprawl. Doug Aitken's 'Mirage': a funhouse mirror for the age of social media 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z As this movie, directed by Isabel Coixet, tracks the deepening friendship between people from different cultures and backgrounds, it acquires an unforced metaphorical resonance. Review: ‘Learning to Drive’ Charts a Culture-Bridging Friendship 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z By placing the show in the past, the undead plague stays entirely metaphorical. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 13: No Good, No Bad 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z To me, it's more of . . . a metaphorical way of just approaching that idea leaving home or breaking form. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z He said that the single toughest thing about transitioning from songwriter to memoirist was steering clear of metaphorical cleverness. The Texas Tribune: Rodney Crowell?s Audacity of Spirit 2011-02-06T08:00:04Z The pilot episode doesn’t inspire hopes that Torpe can handle a nuanced mix of horror and metaphorical context, but that’s okay — sometimes summer calls only for a simple order of mildly entertaining gore. Perspective | Summer TV 2017: ‘Snowfall,’ ‘Prime Suspect’ are a good place to start 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z I know that you seem to be constantly beating down metaphorical readings that your subject matter is a dark commentary on consumer culture or childhood or America itself. For Joyce Pensato, It’s Not the Same Without the Ambient Muck 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z South China Sea Pishkun is a remarkable digital animation by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q Lê that tackles the grim futilities of warfare with an almost hallucinatory metaphorical force. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-22T00:06:54Z “Zero” explores the metaphorical invisibility felt by many young people facing an uncertain future. Netflix to Debut Italy’s First TV Show With a Majority Black Cast 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z She seems a furiously serious writer, still smarting from superficial readings of her first novel, which she wished to be seen as a metaphorical account of faith. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-20T08:00:12Z He slides through his scenes with a singsong malevolence, lobbing metaphorical bombs at all the characters just to see what happens. The Morning Show: TV so excellent it will make you totally resent Friends 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Their isolation worked on a metaphorical level, too. David Emery's best photograph: an Andalucian brothel 2013-05-15T16:26:52Z It is easy to be morbid and metaphorical about the unfeigned death of Michael Jackson, on 25 June 2009. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z In a Tuesday night letter to Pelosi, he claimed that had been more mistreated in this metaphorical “witch hunt” than the women who were tortured and hanged in 17th-century Massachusetts during an actual witch hunt. ‘THIS IS AN ASSAULT’: History collides with Trump 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z If that means forcing their child to be independent by pushing them off a metaphorical branch, then so be it. Forget The Dolphin Way – bring up your children the Earthworm Way 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z But the play is also about the metaphorical steps the characters are forced to take. Taking Steps | Theatre review 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z If Nate isn't happy, he doesn't want to look in the mirror – literal or metaphorical. The many betrayals of "Ted Lasso" 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Fears of a childhood cut short by cosmetics may not be totally metaphorical. Tweens and Cosmetics 2010-04-28T17:18:00Z Fathers as well as mothers need metaphorical slaying. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z Ghosts — metaphorical and human — have long been Smith’s most consistent inspiration, and that held true Monday. Patti Smith bares her rebel soul at the Moore | Concert review 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The scenery's very realistic, but you're always acutely aware you're in the presence of people putting on an act: close, but no metaphorical descent into the bowels of Hades fuelled by crushing existential despair. Black Sabbath: 13 – review 2013-06-06T14:29:01Z Millions of us are going though our versions of detox and rehabilitation right now, real and metaphorical. "Single Drunk Female" isn't just sobriety TV. It's a show that makes recovery feel universal 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z “Notable Encounters” was imagined as “a museum docent’s guide” to a particular piece of music — in this case, the trios of Brahms and their metaphorical relationship to his life. Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The metaphorical flights grow especially wild and woolly in the book’s last lap. ‘Beowulf’ Gets a 21st-Century Update 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Unplug means to literally tug an electric plug from a wall socket, but now, it also has a more metaphorical meaning, as in to disconnect from social media, he said. Swole, buzzy, among new words in Merriam-Webster dictionary 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Those are just metaphorical constructs that represent ‘hungry’ and ‘not hungry.’ | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z It’s hard not to get carried away with the metaphorical possibilities of the laundromat that’s a key setting in Rorschach Theatre’s “Truth & Beauty Bombs: A Softer World.” Review: Laundry day can be arduous, but at this laundromat, it’s apocalyptic 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “Whether in an allegorical sense, as in ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ or in a metaphorical sense, like ‘Rosemary’s Baby.’ Review: The Giant Leap Forward of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z But maybe the most important tension in his work is a matter of weight, real or metaphorical. Abdullah Ibrahim at the Schomburg Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z We were on a metaphorical conveyor belt, all of us having filled out release forms ahead of time that ranked our abilities and noted our gear preferences. Take the hassle out of your ski vacation with an all-inclusive resort 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z They treat it in a friendly, metaphorical manner that relies for its effectiveness on unexpected illustrations and images. Deep book, flat subject 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z The literal and metaphorical layers here — black man in the backseat, white guy at the wheel — are simply stunning. Hollywood still loves a white savior: "Green Book" and the lazy, feel-good take on race 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Literal and metaphorical are conjoined to powerful effect. The City of Devi by Manil Suri – review 2013-03-21T09:00:01Z The "structure," in the more metaphorical sense — the vocabulary and discourse that dominated the political imagination — passed through the "upscale audience" filter. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The father gives metaphorical birth to the son, sanctified by the winged dove of the Holy Spirit. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Writers saw the possibilities, and Ms Corton pursues their metaphorical fogs through every kind of moral, psychological and social disintegration. Grey and dreichy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Receipts are a commodity in this world — not literal receipts that are printed after a purchase, but metaphorical receipts in the form of digital records that are supposed to prove innocence or guilt. James Charles, From ‘CoverBoy’ to Canceled 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The scientific vocabulary is slipped into the poem unpretentiously and expands its metaphorical dimension. Poem of the week: Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry by Ruth Stone 2011-08-01T09:17:06Z The second cycle, “Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter,” completed in 2001, is a continuous setting of a metaphorical poem in nine parts by Joshua Beckman. Music Review: David Del Tredici and Courtenay Budd at Symphony Space 2012-03-16T21:20:23Z It's a big metaphorical hug and a keepsake for people during this difficult time. Minnesota photographer captures life under coronavirus lockdown with porch 'porchtraits' 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z To be insistently metaphorical is one thing; to be insistently metaphorical while repeatedly explaining those metaphors is something else. Review | ‘The Red-Haired Woman’: The worst translation Orhan Pamuk has ever suffered 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z An open mind and critical thought are like a metaphorical AA after a long bender on ideological wine: I’m proud to say that this program has gotten me three years sober. I was a right-wing child star 2012-07-08T12:00:00Z Concise, metaphorical and still arresting, it remains Magnum's most requested image of the civil rights era. Snaps by Elliott Erwitt – review 2013-04-01T08:00:02Z They seem untested by any wars, both literal and metaphorical. “The Intern” Is a Very Strange Workplace Fantasy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Me too, but the weather in this book's title is more metaphorical. Non-fiction roundup - reviews 2012-08-10T21:55:04Z And the slaying last Sunday of the dragon Viserion — Daenerys’ metaphorical child — barely registered before the beast was resurrected as a zombie. Inhaling Slowly for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Spewing Fire for ‘Game of Thrones’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z At UCLA, the stage set was packed with stacks of books, like precarious literary cairns or metaphorical stand-ins for skyscrapers on the cityscape. An unforgettable trip through L.A. from its 'Ambassador' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z An unrelenting urge that sends me in a metaphorical dead sprint for a guitar. Dashboard Confessional, Emo’s King of Pain, Rises Again 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z A few literal fireworks were set off this week; the metaphorical ones are sure to follow. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 11: The Doctor Is In 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z But our expectation was that such effortlessness would ultimately be somewhat tempered the farther north we traveled and the thicker and more extensive the ice became; instead, onward Victory barreled, barely breaking a metaphorical sweat. How global warming has changed what it’s like to travel to the North Pole 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Hemingway liked the name for its metaphorical resonance. When Hemingway Was a Young Fisherman in Michigan 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But some speak of metaphorical, even metaphysical strengths as well. Inside one of the few places where dancers still perform, founded by a glamorous disco impresario 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z To expect an instrumental work to convey all that programmatic and metaphorical content, even something as long as “Nine Rivers,” is expecting a lot. Music Review: ?Nine Rivers? at Miller Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:20:23Z But on the evidence of Mr. Kaufman’s stage version, Williams could never entirely bring sweet, anguished and hopelessly metaphorical Ollie down to earth. | 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z “It’s a way of talking about birds in a very literal way, but also in a very metaphorical tongue-in-cheek way,” Ms. Huisman said. From Aristophanes to Hitchcock, Celebrating Birds and Culture 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Usually a noun but also an adjective, its primary, metaphorical definition is "someone who enlightens or influences others". Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z Bombs are exploding all around Veronica and her hometown; metaphorical explosions rock her personal life, not the least of which being signs that Keith may be suffering from dementia. "Veronica Mars" contends with the mystery and tragedy of growing up 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z I think the Automat represents people coming together in the literal and metaphorical senses. ‘The Automat,’ Where Dining Out Was D.I.Y. 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z But neither conceptual nor metaphorical thought is very intensely developed in this show. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z Dominic Cooke, the Royal Court’s artistic director at the time, said Mr. Wesker understood theater “is always metaphorical, even when the social context of the play is realistic and detailed.” Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z When "urban blacks" are discussed in America's popular discourse or when we discuss "the ghetto" this is about race and who is on the other side of the literal or metaphorical wall. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z His own views aside, Mr. Munch said he was careful to make a film “that does work as a metaphorical comment on our society.” ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z Latest exhibit is The Human Centipede, in which a mad surgeon splices together the gastric systems of three luckless victims, though the centipede element is more metaphorical than arthropod. Anne Billson 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z Way back in 2005, they had the idea to rehabilitate a derelict property, using art as a metaphorical and practical strategy for transforming community spaces. Mini Mart City Park, a converted gas station in Georgetown, opens as cultural center after 15 years 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Not only were there long stretches during which nothing happens, but the book is open to many interpretations, literal and metaphorical. ‘Life of Pi’ Is New Ang Lee Film, Based on Yann Martel Tale 2012-09-09T03:43:02Z When the Bible commanded circumcision, was that a metaphorical edict or a literal one? One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Is the garden real as well as metaphorical? What Long Miles by Kona Macphee – review 2013-07-28T08:30:00Z They are whisked aboard ahead of the rest of us, and disappear into an apartheid realm of luxury that is both metaphorical and real. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z They get defensive, as if the rest of the class is waiting to pounce on their choice and rip it to metaphorical shreds. “No living woman actually looks like Kate Moss”: The unattainable thin ideal 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z This chaotic stew of fire, blood, mud and explosives is so devoid of terror and suspense that any metaphorical analysis is rendered moot. | 'Predators': Adrien Brody as a Hunted Earthling 2010-07-08T23:31:00Z According to this theory, any democratic western culture that breaches the actual or metaphorical walls of tyranny may have some progressive and tempering effect on the local politics. Bob Dylan's political road ? and Sesame Street's 2011-04-10T18:30:00Z “The Americans” is all about the connection between physical and metaphorical feeling. ‘The Americans’: In Season 4, the Wars Grow Colder and More Dangerous 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Her character on “GLOW” is a metaphorical punching bag, but was Ms. Brie ready to try a real one? Alison Brie Swaps Her Wrestling Costume for Boxing Gloves 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Adams says that in these recent works, he has become increasingly focused on space “not in a poetic or metaphorical sense but as physical space. ‘ Seattle Symphony to present world premiere of John Luther Adams’ highly anticipated ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z A true original, writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour's bizarre and partly metaphorical vampire movie is set in a fictional Iranian town called Bad City, where criminals and degenerates reign. Home entertainment: 'Alone at Night' ranks as a true vampire original 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z With no fiery breath of its own, and only metaphorical claws and wings, the virtual dragon proves a little slow-witted. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z In contrast, the death Sally experiences is slow and metaphorical; she's rotting away in her mousy version of an ever-after that may not be entirely happy. Bill Hader gives "Barry" his made-for-TV movie hero wish 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z In a museum gallery they resonate on other aesthetic and metaphorical levels. Art Review: Blind Ambition of Leather-Clad Heads 2011-07-21T21:35:37Z Some early canvases included fabric samples from his day job, setting him on a course to employ the metaphorical power of objects and patterns. The Many Layers of Lari Pittman 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Besides its painterly urgency, much of the power of Beckmann’s art is in its metaphorical inventiveness. Review: ‘Max Beckmann in New York,’ a Belated but Full-Blown Homage to a German Modernist 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Finally, they will constantly secrete a metaphorical mucus through their skin to aid their child's journey through life. Forget The Dolphin Way – bring up your children the Earthworm Way 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z A further irony was that a lot of comedians skewering her self-reliance ideology turned into little Thatcherites themselves, getting on their metaphorical bikes and setting up their own small businesses. Margaret Thatcher had the last laugh in comedy 2013-04-10T14:34:29Z With inexhaustible inventiveness and varying degrees of complexity and simplification, Krushenick continued to experiment with formal and metaphorical possibilities until the end of his life. Art in Review: NICHOLAS KRUSHENICK: ?A Survey? 2011-10-13T22:00:35Z Even with Jim Bakker, who was the much slimier character, there’s a sense that every time you see him, he’s not twirling the metaphorical mustache. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Edwards said he believed "all good science-fiction is either metaphorical or an analogy for something else". Sneak Godzilla footage shown in UK 2014-02-28T17:42:56Z Musicians and their labels began throwing the pasta at the metaphorical wall in marketing and selling records. We can’t stop talking about Beyoncé. But is she selling as much music as we think? 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It's all nested in metaphorical quotation marks: "You aren't meant to sympathise with these characters," perhaps, or, "It's set in 1973, things were different then." Cemetery Junction's gay-baiting is not funny 2010-04-21T14:49:00Z Cancer in her heart, even, a metaphorical violation as well as a physical one: The heart he describes is stout. Review: In ‘The Narrow Door,’ Paul Lisicky Opens a Window on Friendship 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The “Flesh Walls” title is not metaphorical or accidental. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Blood and earth, as well as fire, are among the primal substances that serve as metaphorical and sometimes actual ingredients in the work of the eight contributors, most of them rooted in Latin America. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the many perspectives of terricide 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Some strange person in an act of metaphorical protest? Review: In ‘Dog Days,’ a Family Clawing for Survival 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z To allow them to serve the story, Cody is forced to make further metaphors out of material that was highly metaphorical in the first place. Review: With ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ They Finally Fixed the Jukebox 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z I believe he pursued a poetic metaphorical cinema. “You have naked bodies and genitalia, don’t you? Why are you so adolescent?”: Director Peter Greenaway on “Puritan” Americans and the intense sex scenes in “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The effect is visually striking, and also metaphorical: Human life circles onward as day cycles into night. Review | In the galleries: Exhibits explore the many meanings of blue 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s 25 years overdue, but it’s fitting to see women cut Dice’s metaphorical manhood down to a realistic size. Comedy is disgusting. It works for ‘Catastrophe,’ but not so much for ‘Dice’ and ‘The Detour’ 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Two of those thresholds are not metaphorical, but they are fictional: "The Good Place" and "BoJack Horseman" each feature openings into the unknown, marking an ending within each series finale. In a fitting series finale, "BoJack Horseman" finds out what it truly means to be canceled 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Yet more instructive may be the lesson gleaned from the previous pages — that many of the metaphorical “pandas” you’ll encounter in the board book of life will be, emphatically, not yours. “Pat the Bunny” is kind of twisted and other lessons I learned from picture books 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Each of the perfectly cast actors manages to straddle the line between realism and the metaphorical space where “Hang Time” exists. Review: In ‘Hang Time,’ Lynched Men Tell Finely Tuned Tales 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z "It had to do with finding a metaphorical Graceland," he explained. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-01-20T22:28:01Z The light, literal and metaphorical, affects the way that music falls on our ears; we hear a song differently indoors to outdoors, alone or in company, sitting still to when we are in motion. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-12-16T22:19:00Z Point taken; but Rorty believed that, in addressing more or less all of humanity as his fellow-prisoners, Foucault was being decadent, and not simply because he was weakening the distinction between metaphorical and actual inmates. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Instead of metaphorical bells and whistles, there were actual bells and people whistling. Review: Jennifer Monson, the Spellbinding Shape-Shifter 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z If, that is, politically motivated shootings and bombings in big cities were fantastical tropes or metaphorical conceits, like zombie epidemics or extraterrestrial invasions. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z As Jackie Robinson, Boseman was heroic and stoic; he spoke softly and carried a big metaphorical bat. REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The physical presence of these little time capsules is as stirring as their metaphorical import. Cuban artist Jose Fors: A deft command of metaphor and material 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Spiegelhalter is an immensely engaging guide to this struggle, meeting seismologists, gamblers, statisticians and others who study the throw of the dice, metaphorical or literal. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z The scenes in the back room, showing Thierry with suspects, indicate the power that’s implicit in these images—not, for once, a metaphorical power of images but a practical one, with troubling implications. A Movie that Captures France’s Dystopian Employment Situation 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z She wasn’t speaking metaphorically, but it became metaphorical. Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z Is this really a virus, even in the metaphorical sense? Affluenza: the history of the 'disease' that plagues the wealthy and privileged 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Personally, I see our horrified fascination with Lubitz and the crash as a metaphorical displacement, almost a distraction. Terror in the Alps: Behind the dark allure of the Germanwings disaster 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z You might object that this is exactly the annoyingly metaphorical talk mentioned above. Want to live twice as long? Meditation might help | Oliver Burkeman 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Whatever the state of public transportation in the real world, pop culture does not lack for metaphorical trains that promise to solve our problems. The Strange, Lovely ‘Infinity Train’ Reaches the End of the Line 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Moss’s consideration of black dance is a metaphorical one. Dance Review: Dean Moss Program, Part of Parallels at Danspace Project 2012-02-20T23:39:13Z A big spoonful of peanut butter is the metaphorical cherry on top. How to freeze bananas so they don’t totally and completely rot 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Before his show at the Fox Theater here on Saturday night you could speculate on a metaphorical link between the city and the star: phoenix rising from the ashes or shattered wreck of former glory. Critic?s Notebook: Belligerent and Boozy, and That?s Just the Audience 2011-04-03T20:27:46Z The effect is visually precise but essentially metaphorical. In the galleries: Looking back on a century of Iberian and Latin American works 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Throughout the ballet, there’s that fluid sweep of the ensemble — unusual and metaphorical. Review | National Ballet of Canada gets it right: In ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ it’s what’s inside that counts 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z All such pictures were, of course, at some level metaphorical, infused with moral impulses and with art-historical references. Masterpieces of Japanese Art at the Met 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But metaphorical thinking, as she warned, is often lazy thinking — even a recourse from thinking. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z For the first day or so of this crisis, I’d see something on the metaphorical horizon, and I’d think: Is that a Zulu? A peek at the diary of Liam Neeson’s agent: 'He's Started a Really Important Conversation' 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z And because nobody’s perfect, your soul is born again — not in another location or sphere, and not in any metaphorical sense, but right here on earth. Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z A show where animals at the now-defunct Griffith Park Zoo function as metaphorical representations of Hollywood actors pigeonholed by typecasting and ageism? Double the Trouble in a Novel of Hollywood Marriages 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The one qualifier for inclusion is this: "Does it float my metaphorical boat?" Blog jam: The Metaphorical Boat 2013-01-31T12:08:00Z It also spotlights the metaphorical power of his key idea. Martin Scorsese Avenges the Auteur 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z One can recoil just as easily from “Grey Gardens” as appreciate its black humor and metaphorical ironies. ‘Grey Gardens’: Freak show or poignant portrait? 2013-03-22T23:51:30Z But Müller’s texts conjure a metaphorical winter landscape more concerned with the universal idea of a stream or tree rather than a geographical or botanical reality. ‘Winterreise’ Augmented by Kentridge Video Art 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Its author lamely tries to appropriate Tichborne's metaphorical grand slam, only to say nothing more interesting than that the young traitor got all he deserved. Poem of the week: Tichborne's Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne 2012-11-26T10:26:31Z "In a way, this is a continuation of the 8 Mile story, but rather than a literal biography, we are doing a metaphorical narrative of the second chapter of his life." Boxing role being written for Eminem 2010-12-15T18:04:03Z He added, “I’m not gonna start a fire at dinner, you know — I mean a metaphorical fire.” Date Lab: She knew he would ask for her number 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Some may see a metaphorical significance in "Seven Pounds" being a December release, perhaps surmising that winter isn't the star's season. Will Smith perfected blockbuster success, but his Oscar-worthiness is tougher – slap or no slap 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Gone is the satirical edge of Ulinich's first book, replaced with a relentless drive toward revelation, a metaphorical mortification of the flesh. 'Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel' conjures a new literary form 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Was making the film an exercise in imagining what that metaphorical journey might be like? Rachel Weisz in Terence Davies?s Film ?The Deep Blue Sea? 2012-03-10T22:51:09Z In one stunning metaphorical moment, the four chums are trapped in a souk, endangered, and dressed insensitively in shorts and plunging tops. Sex and the City 2: What happened to good old Sex?| Victoria Coren 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z As in “Children of Men,” where the world is gripped by an epidemic of infertility, the ailment here is also metaphorical. Movie Review: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green in ?Perfect Sense? 2012-02-03T00:41:58Z You can analyse the metaphorical underwire of Levels of Life; you can marvel at the structure of a book so well balanced. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z But especially in the later examples, images of the ostensibly natural world and its denizens become metaphorical mirrors of an irrepressibly lively mind. Art Review: ?Colorful Realm,? Works by Ito Jakuchu at National Gallery 2012-03-29T21:27:01Z Was the turning point moral, or legal, or was it a metaphorical, symbolic, psychological kind of thing? This Week in Fiction: Haruki Murakami 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z At that point, it’s clear that the film’s relationship-specific commentary, trenchant as it is, takes a back seat to a broader, more metaphorical point. Cannes: With 'The Lobster,' a director keeps swimming in rebel waters 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Mr. Scott also identifies stopping to think, which he also calls “expanded consciousness,” with “radically altered perception,” and doesn’t deny the metaphorical association with drugs. Review: In ‘Better Living Through Criticism,’ A. O. Scott Offers Insight 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Look at Taylor Swift’s “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince,” a new ballad in which Swift wafts her newfound political disillusionment through the halls of a metaphorical high school. Perspective | It’s a brave new world. Why is our protest music stuck in the past? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z “Monsters have a male energy … So for me it’s that idea of befriending what you’re afraid of on a metaphorical level.” Essential Arts & Culture: A wondrous Hedwig, Renaissance music remade, Boyle Heights gallery crimes 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z However, others took Ramsay’s message in a metaphorical sense, seeing it as a sign that Sansa’s ruthless side — while once seemingly nonexistent — has now been permanently awakened. What Ramsay's Last Words to Sansa May Have Meant on Game of Thrones 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In a metaphorical land not far from reality, a beautiful palace rises from a desolate plain of want and envy. Art Review: Learning About the Marketplace and Entering It 2011-08-11T21:32:30Z The only blood on their hands was metaphorical. 'The Americans' Recap: It Means Nothing to Me 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z And yes, much of the wellness content of the internet is performative, metaphorical or gestural. When Did Self-Help Become Self-Care? 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z One way of overcoming that problem is by metaphorical explanation. Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Just a metaphorical baseball bat poised over my head. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z At the outset of a show like this, any shortcomings in the secondary plot are excusable given the complexity of Plum’s interior world, a metaphorical cage of hunger and an oppressively small one at that. Unpacking the violent desserts of AMC's "Dietland" 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Weaver’s character was ultimately too, well, well mannered to detonate the metaphorical bomb that might have brought down the Bush administration. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It moves from eastern Europe to Manchester and offers both literal and metaphorical accounts of its title. Narrative; Cannibals; Once – review 2013-04-13T23:06:25Z The sequence is wordless, but its metaphorical impact is deafening. Movie Review: ‘Mistaken for Strangers’ Follows the Band the National’s Tour 2014-03-27T23:02:25Z We’ve seen how many teen stars grow up to work consistently as adults but fail to grab the metaphorical brass ring. The evolution of Channing Tatum: from 'dull beefcake dude' to XXL movie star 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The rest of the movie is a sequence of hardships, maybe metaphorical of the hardships an actor has to go through to get an Oscar. Cinéma vérité: “The Revenant” and “Spotlight” — two tales for our time and beyond 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z If these are metaphorical, they represent not chaos, but a keen eye for affinity and continuity. Review | In the galleries: A pictorial stew examines the seamy side along the corridors of power 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Even the title, "Rendition," has precise metaphorical resonance. Poem of the week: Rendition by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2013-01-28T13:02:28Z The show uses religion both in metaphorical and literal ways: General structures of power, both religious and not, are corrupted and crumbling. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z In these situations, where the public targets a woman for a metaphorical stoning, it usually reflects years of seething over perceived uppity or unacceptable behavior. The gospel according to Sinéad O'Connor: She was right all along 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Right at that moment, a metaphorical circle of doom dropped on a very shocked half of the country. Under the “circle of doom”: Fox News gives us the season finale of its Trump boosting coverage 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z After the second episode, the show strays from the rodeo scenes, pushing the notion of Chip as a clown from the literal to the more generally metaphorical. No Clowning Around 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z I am starting to consider shoving Harlan’s ADA in front of the metaphorical bus. Recap of 'Justified' episode 'Noblesse Oblige': Playing pretend 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Further, she added, “It is a building that acts as a once and now metaphorical entry to New York.” Slow to Take Off, After a First Date They Cruised 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z I used it in “Memento” in a metaphorical way, a symbolic way to explain . . . to sort of suggest the structure of the script beginning. Christopher Nolan objects to Warner Bros. release plan, but he’s happy you can watch ‘Tenet’ at home now 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z While metaphorical, it is still a basically violent joke too. Is dead Donald Trump funny? Understanding gallows humor in the Trump era 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s a mix of themes and tones, both concrete and ethereal, ghoulish and comedic, but the imbalanced direction here, by LaTanya Richardson Jackson, overemphasizes the horror too literally; it works best on a metaphorical level. ‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: August Wilson’s Phantom Notes 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Not only in the obvious metaphorical sense but also in its bent for the unexpected. ‘Full Rip 9.0’: major Pacific Northwest quake, major shocker 2013-06-13T22:51:16Z The four performers from Mischief Theatre only risked dying in a metaphorical sense, so it's not surprising that Kabuto's live ad break didn't garner as much attention as Honda's. The risky business of using a live broadcast to plug a product 2013-06-19T10:51:51Z The enduring appeal of the “Apes” series, Mr. Reeves said, is in its clear metaphorical oomph: “The apes are us.” Summer Movies: For ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,’ Learning Simian Movement 2014-05-01T17:15:35Z Will Walter be tempted to cross the metaphorical line that William Bell wanted him to? "Fringe" recap: What's in the box(es)? 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z The stupendous comedy “What We Do in the Shadows” is too smart to let any metaphorical meaning get in the way of good jokes. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z I'm not sure James's writing is that ambitious, but she has certainly understood the bit about not being metaphorical. Why women love Fifty Shades of Grey 2012-07-06T21:55:24Z The real-life fog suggests the metaphorical mist of time, while the eventual disassembling of the sculptures exemplifies the endless recycling of organic matter, a process less clinically known as decay and death. In the galleries: Artist’s glass has life of its own 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Except, how come Peterson’s followers continue to wander around our metaphorical Hamelin, explaining stuff like there is no patriarchy because of crustaceans? Pity Jordan Peterson. Can a giant lobster analogy ever replace a sense of humour? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The movie’s title works in both a literal and a metaphorical way. ‘Rotting in the Sun’ Review: Instagram, Real 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z That’s when the fourth wall — you know, the one that separates the stage from the audience, and which in this case isn’t just metaphorical — falls smack into the laps of theatergoers in the front rows. | ?World of Wires': ?World of Wires? at the Kitchen ? Review 2012-01-16T22:46:30Z Many movies, books or shows are metaphorical slogs. ‘Touching the Void’ Review: Choices That Shape a Life on the Edge 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z “Dream images and delusions throw up information, often metaphorical or allegorical,” she added. Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Contrary to the pastoral, if unforgiving, landscapes that generally define the show, on Sunday “The Walking Dead” was all about interiors, literal and metaphorical. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 13: Carol the Killer 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z In early December, that metaphorical big cat found himself facing a laptop webcam, talking to a trepidatious journalist. Shane MacGowan Wants a Lot More of Life 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Some pieces include stitching, which evokes not only traditional needlework, but also mending in a metaphorical sense. In the galleries: Putting a fine point on colored pencil drawings 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Whatever metaphorical splinter was lodged under a character’s skin at the start is pretty much still there at the end, a constant reminder of past choices and roads taken, or not. ‘Bodies They Ritual’ Review: Plush Robes and Cults 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Dzikiewicz shows her pulling off a KKK robe to reveal a monster beneath, and the picture’s style is as fantastic as its metaphorical vision. In the galleries: Strangely familiar objects for the eyes and ears 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The chaos menu, then, is literal and metaphorical. A new season "The Bear" marinates a great show into a superb exploration of purpose 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Some, like the vulture that took flight just blocks away as Biden wrapped a speech in Manchester, are purely metaphorical. After a ‘gut punch’ in Iowa, a surreal feeling surrounds Biden’s campaign 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z In other, more established fields – classic rock, I'm looking at you – the shoes were entirely metaphorical. Readers recommend: Insulting songs 2010-04-15T23:01:00Z Or the winter's day might not only be metaphorical. Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z New Penzance is, after all, an island; their escape is largely a metaphorical statement. Moonrise Kingdom: Escapees from a Doll House 2012-05-16T20:52:43Z The show’s title, Guadagnoli explains, is both literal and metaphorical: She wants to slice through the viewer’s everyday perceptions. Review | In the galleries: At cultural center, art that’s tethered to South Korea 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Taking a sly, metaphorical dig at homeowners abandoning their friends for fast buyouts, “Bingo Hell” sprinkles hardship and loss on a story of oldster gumption. ‘Black as Night’ and ‘Bingo Hell’ Review: Marginalized Heroes 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z His accounts of rich, metaphorical dreams made me wish that my own weren’t so fragmented and elusive. The History of Dreams, From Greek Mythology to Last Night’s Sleep 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z In the first, the metaphorical underground railroad becomes an actual underground railroad. In ‘Languages of Truth,’ Salman Rushdie Defends the Extraordinary 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Putting his name in the title brought this man out of the metaphorical shadows. Andrzej Wajda: great director had Poland written on his heart | Peter Bradshaw 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z But before we get there, an unexpected trap chute opens, dumping her — and us — into an oceanic trench, both literal and metaphorical. A Star of Y.A. Literature Returns. This Time, She’s Talking to Adults. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z “In a way, the financial crisis is like a plague or a war, except that the pestilence and carnage are metaphorical.” Sunday Reading: Banking Scandals 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z In this way the metaphorical aspect of the circus was never far from the surface. Dance Review: Circa, an Australian Troupe, at Jacob’s Pillow 2012-06-22T22:43:12Z He says: “Essentially you become metaphorical. You become the main character by taking on their goals and concerns. The one element that doesn’t change, however, is your emotions. Your emotions are still yours.” Finding emo: why the metaphysical mouldbreaker Inside Out will send kids out of their mind 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It is a metaphorical journey from teenage secondary school pranks into full-blown "adulthood" that cries out for a sequel. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z Should we read it as a supernatural story or a metaphorical one? This Week in Fiction: Samanta Schweblin on an Adult Man’s Infantilization 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The viewer is left to bridge the metaphorical gap and create their own imaginative time sequences. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-29T23:10:59Z Count on anyone who’s the least bit “controversial” being angrily confronted by people who think their presence at this metaphorical cocktail party is tacit consent to stand trial at the court of public opinion. Twitter’s toxic party: Anything goes, everyone’s invited and the host is too terrified to set down house rules 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z On a metaphorical level, both “Blind Spot” and “Utøya” portray a civilization in free fall. The Power of the One-Take Film 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z “To us, Satan is a symbol of pride, liberty and individualism, and it serves as an external metaphorical projection of our highest personal potential,” tweeted the Church of Satan soon after the actor’s win. 'Hail Christian!': Church of Satan revels in Bale's Golden Globes shoutout 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z In "Bittersweet", the use of literal roots to suggest metaphorical ones is not exactly surprising, but it's effective because it's grounded in clear and precise description. Water Sessions by James Lasdun – review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z “The Cool” was so complex and metaphorical that I felt a need for the message to be distilled and put 100 proof in your face. Lupe Fiasco: Album 'was destroying me' 2011-03-02T04:08:47Z But I read Douthat, in this deeply conflicted piece, as a metaphorical three-year-old attempting to put together a jigsaw puzzle: He finally has all the pieces, but he just can’t get them to fit together. Karl Marx and the semantics of a “post-work left” 2013-03-02T15:00:00Z Candy Walls, too, is heavy on atmospherics and metaphorical dry ice, positing Alfons, the lugubrious and lonely Canuck, as a digital Leonard Cohen. New band of the day: Trust (No 1,369) 2012-10-10T16:44:58Z The result: a literal and metaphorical vehicle for empowering the public with cognitive science. “Crowdfunding” brings science back to the masses 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z Mr. de Bellescize takes the metaphorical elements of the work at face value. Review: In ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Beasts With Burden of Judging 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z In an increasingly inarticulate world, she is an unrepentant wordsmith, terrific at setting scenes and playing with metaphorical images. Ann Patchett's 'State of Wonder': searching for answers in the Amazon 2011-06-08T20:48:04Z Building a wall, metaphorical and literally, it is about separating and isolating oneself. "Trump's wall is based on a ridiculous fantasy": Scott Snyder on how reality is scarier than fiction 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z While this satirical description may have resonated at the time, it no longer rings true today – in terms of the physical description if not the metaphorical critique. Giving while female: Women are more likely to donate to charities than men of equal means 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z The artist, who is best known for his intricate etchings that depict fantastical and metaphorical subjects, will have recent works in the show that are rendered in a new technique he has created. Canvases, Clay and Cameras, Preserving the Spirit of Ukraine 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z What “Arabian Nights” tries to do is something even more radical, which is the erasure of the distinction between the literal and the metaphorical. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Lambchop has a vestigial, almost metaphorical relationship with the sound and atmosphere of 1970s country music. New Music: New Albums From Estelle, Lambchop and Matthew Shipp Trio 2012-02-27T23:36:19Z His guiding principle was lightness, literal and metaphorical, the notion that things should not weigh heavily on the soul or on the ground. The 10 best chairs – in pictures 2013-04-06T15:00:00Z Eventually, of course, the metaphorical walls broke down, and the dancers got back together. Review: Satellite Collective Mixes Media and Messages at BAM Fisher 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Even after we permanently moved back to America, the metaphorical parasite clung on. The parasites inside my mother were both real and spiritual 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The only named “virus” here, and it feels more facile than metaphorical, is hate. ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Despite the potential metaphorical heat, these themes are muffled by a heavy-handed, academic intellectualism. Review: Sex, Death and Little Subtlety 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s a linguistic hooded sweatshirt in a metaphorical boardroom. The Rise and Fall of ‘ZuckTalk’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z It's also too subtle and too honest to end with an echo of its beginnings – to accelerate to some sort of blazing final crash, metaphorical or otherwise. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner – review 2013-06-05T15:01:59Z Locating a woman’s power in her body, even in a metaphorical sense, can make it feel untouchable. The Wild Woman Awakens 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Tichborne's metaphorical dexterity is coupled with an ingenious use of tense to suggest the blurring of past and present. Poem of the week: Tichborne's Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne 2012-11-26T10:26:31Z Doshi frequently employs Dante's trope of selva oscura, the dark wood, to represent the love relationship, so there is a metaphorical parallel to these paired ideas. Everything Begins Elsewhere by Tishani Doshi - review 2012-06-01T21:55:01Z But as concern about literal toxins expanded, Martin said, so did metaphorical uses of “toxic.” ‘Toxic’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. No, We’re Not Gaslighting You. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z But I would pair Didion with a writer from a community on the opposite side of the metaphorical tracks. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Employing his trademark deadpan expression, the governor stated there might be some “metaphorical reality” to Chris’s vision and pondered the mental toll of the disease on the man he calls his best friend. Perspective | The Cuomo brothers put on quite a show. Should the journalism-ethics police shut it down? 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z That disgusting conceit provides a fitting central image for the movie, a cold-blooded noir in which the overarching question is which chumps will become chum, literal or metaphorical. Review: In ‘Bayou Caviar,’ the Main Course Is a Cold-Blooded Noir 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z It exists in a sort of magical, metaphorical level. Inside "Taco Bell Quarterly," the seriously delicious literary magazine honoring the fast food chain 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z The vignette might not be intentionally metaphorical, but it could represent isolated North Korea in a sea of hostility. In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z But a computing system can draw on agricultural knowledge from many different environments and schools of thought to play a metaphorical chess game with nature that helps farmers identify the best options for their land. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z In such a context, the blackout becomes less metaphorical than inevitable, as in: How else would the citizens of a disrupted city react? Can Garth Risk Hallberg's 'City on Fire' sustain the weight of author's intentions? 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Architecture, like music, has no metaphorical obligations, yet we can’t help but read it like a language. Perspective | I thought classical music could stand up to anything. Now it feels more vulnerable than ever. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z In the canvases showing the room on fire, the bright, feathery flames enhance a dreamlike effect, suggesting metaphorical meanings. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Gray chose the pig mask, a persona that perhaps best reflected the band's emerging overall aesthetic – that of outsiders from a largely rural, farming-based state a million metaphorical miles from New York and Los Angeles. Slipknot: Paul 'the Pig' Gray remembered 2010-05-25T13:47:00Z At a time of partisan “echo chambers” and the “silencing” of meaningful debate, there’s a metaphorical dimension to this orphic impulse to hear only what we want to hear. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Scheer simplified Melville's lengthy language while keeping the poetry of an often metaphorical narrative. Jake Heggie has a whale of a hit with 'Moby-Dick' 2010-05-01T21:46:00Z Designed for artists who want to reach for that metaphorical extra octave and beyond, the space has been outfitted with cutting-edge digital acoustic and visual technology. At Seattle Symphony’s new Octave 9, a 24-hour music marathon promises Cloud 9 for new music lovers 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z I wanted to find a metaphorical journey — how you take an audience from that shock, and you give space to really let that settle in. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z |
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