单词 | metonym |
例句 | Las Vegas is so gauche, this line of thinking goes, so unabashed about its own vulgarity, that it is a perfect metonym for that original embarrassment, America. Las Vegas, ‘the Most Honest City in America’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z To that extent, silence here functions as a metonym for the wider Christian paradox of engagement with and withdrawal from the world. Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-03-29T08:01:01Z This makes the state a kind of metonym for New England at large: old, overwhelmingly white, conservative in character if not in politics, skeptical, flinty, salty or whatever other mildly condescending euphemism you prefer. In ‘Vacationland,’ John Hodgman confronts surrealism of adult life 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Within a year, its name was a metonym for excellence in the art of raw fish. At Sushi Nakazawa, Only the Price Remains the Same 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The name stuck, Hoefler became a legend and the region became a metonym for the entire tech sector. How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z To a certain type of indie music fan, Alex G is a regional celebrity, the kind of artist who stands almost as a metonym for the place where he lives and works. Alex G and the Art of Interesting Choices 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Monsey has become a metonym for the Orthodox Jews of Rockland County, who represent more than a quarter of its population and gather at more than 200 synagogues and roughly half that many yeshivas. Netflix Series Stirs Debate About the Lives of Ultra-Orthodox Women 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Josephine Baker, the absinthe, “perfect corkscrews of lemon peel” in a martini glass: These become not touchstones of Lee Miller’s lived reality, but metonyms for glamour. A Novel About the Life and Times of the Photographer Lee Miller 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Rather than a red-meat attack on the Obama administration, “13 Hours” engages in a kind of diffuse, all-purpose cynicism about Washington as a familiar metonym for incompetence, corruption and bureaucratic inertia. ‘13 Hours,’ Benghazi and the slippery definition of ‘political’ 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Stevens’s narrative starts with Trump Tower, the gleaming metonym Mr. Trump hung his name on in brass letters. Review: ‘The Confidence Man’ Finds Trump’s Business Image Was Made for TV 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The house is a fair metonym for the moment: It looks open, but look and feel can be two different things. Review: ‘In Treatment’ Thinks You Could Use a Session, America 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s more metonym for the glamorous arrivals than a literal description of what everyone is walking on. In a first since 1961, the Oscars carpet will not be red 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Thus, some scientists say that Gaia, the mother of life, is a poor choice of deity to serve as a metonym for Earth. The Medea Hypothesis: Does life on Earth sow the seeds of its own extinction? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z There is even a popular colloquial term for those hierarchies: A pecking order, which is used as a metonym for any social hierarchy, particularly workplace ones. The social lives of birds: Turkeys are violent, back-stabby, and class-obsessed 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The word quipu is Quechua for “knot,” a metonym for the inscription system of knotted cords developed in the Andes over 5,000 years ago. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Like baby feet, pregnant bodies have become a metonym for antiabortion views. This summer's hot baby gift? Funds for abortion rights 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z As the title of his memoir suggests, Stevens has assumed pride of place in two cities that have become metonyms for aspiration, idealism and their own unique manifestations of power. Review | How George Stevens Jr. bridged two worlds: Hollywood and Washington 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The ensemble is a visual metonym for the project’s opacity: She reveals so little that it’s the lack of disclosure that becomes most conspicuous. Review | In ‘Janet Jackson,’ a star famous for her privacy lives up to her reputation 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z If Leimert Park is a metonym for Black L.A., it’s because it tethers seemingly contradictory aspects of the city’s Black culture. Artist Noah Purifoy saw value in the discarded. What if L.A. didn't throw people away? 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z We had a family perfumer, or attarwallah, a man of some refinement, who came to us from Lucknow — a city that is a metonym for high Indo-Islamic culture. The Fragrances That Changed the Field 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z "They will survive because the Black church in many ways is a metonym for Black family and Black family must survive," Stewart said. Coronavirus pandemic forces Black churches to adapt to new way of worship 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, medicine of the time used the spine as a metonym for any systemic illness – and treated it accordingly. What we can learn from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's years in lockdown 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Her face, complete with big glasses, a low bun, and her famous studded collars, became a kind of metonym for a dream of women’s equality, a dream that seemed doomed to be dashed. Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed America long before she joined the supreme court | Moira Donegan 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The domain for Tuvalu happened to be “.tv,” the worldwide metonym for broadcast entertainment. Tuvalu is a tiny island nation of 11,000 people. It’s cashing in thanks to Twitch. 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z As he always does, he used it as a metonym for the inevitable march of progress—made only more efficient by great men of history, such as Johannes Gutenberg and Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg Still Doesn’t Get It 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z On “First Take,” they often invoked individual athletes as metonyms for the broader values and varieties of excellence that animated their enjoyment of sports. Stephen A. Smith Won’t Stop Talking 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z According to the Guardian, Joyce used "weatherboard and iron" as a metonym to describe poor, rural Australian towns in "contrast to the better-built houses of richer cities". The revenge of Johnny Depp's dogs 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Athletics are a natural vessel for politics: Teams or people become metonyms for places and cultures big and small, and they compete in a zero-sum game outside of politics. Does ESPN have a political duty to stay out of politics? - Golf Digest 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z In this context, “science” is a metonym for the worldview that leads you to question and test your intuitions. Scientists, Break Out of That Ivory Tower 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Aging is the leading precondition for so many diseases that “aging” and “disease” are essentially metonyms. Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Naturally, though, it is quite a different matter when the word is used as a form of metonym to revel in the dominion that power and wealth gives certain men over every passing woman. I’m no pussy when it comes to swearing | Alex Clark 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Unlike the tourist, the traveler accepts that the point isn’t the intensity of the peak experiences but the way the journey itself sacralizes any given moment as a metonym for the whole. What We See When We Look at Travel Photography 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It is no accident that the metonym for language is a tongue, not an ear, an eye, or a prehensile thumb. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z But the codes are really a metonym for foreign policy more broadly. Presidents need to be able to do nothing. Donald Trump can’t do it. 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z He still lives in Juárez and serves as a warm metonym for the city and all that it was and remains. Juárez: A Documentary Mythology – a city of death finds voices to reaffirm life 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Perfect movie teeth are metonyms – dentonyms? – of a larger dishonesty: the purely cosmetic nature of what passes as brutal and gritty realism. How the cosmetic 'stylish thriller' is beating up on honest cinema 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z “Silicon” is no longer literal, but a metonym for the entrepreneurial spirit that’s fueled the region’s growth for decades. The New Start-up Scene: From Silicon Strip to Silicon Mitten 2011-12-19T16:39:40Z The cemeteries themselves are the metonyms of the villages, and the graves of the houses. Myths and Legends of China |
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