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"metaphor" Definitions
  1. a word or phrase used to describe somebody/something else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for example She has a heart of stone; the use of such words and phrases

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And I&aposm very pro-metaphor, and I think journalists should be pro-metaphor.
The metaphor is so in your face that it's no longer even a metaphor.
But the metaphor — or rather, the very idea of metaphor — lodges in her imagination.
The metaphor, then, "is no metaphor"—though, of course, it was chosen by Rich, shaped by Rich, and immersed in a poem where metaphor is crucial and probably inevitable.
On the contrary, this libertarian metaphor necessitates contestation and rejection for the metaphor to work.
But if language is the principal metaphor for life, what is the metaphor for language?
The Board is a metaphor sometimes, but the metaphor doesn't have to stretch too far.
" Doran went on, "If you allow the metaphor to be there, rather than applying the metaphor for the audience, the audience can then apply that metaphor however they want to.
The dick part of BDE is just a metaphor, but that metaphor is not value-neutral.
That's the metaphor, the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife, and decline into decrepitude.
People say chess is a metaphor for war, but it's really more a metaphor for a single battle.
It offers two layers of metaphor: The arena fighting game is a metaphor for political struggle in the fictional world; the struggle in the fictional world is a metaphor for our real-world political struggles.
Gas is a nice metaphor, but the metaphor is insufficient as an argument to support non-zero $ETH prices.
Of course, a metaphor is just a metaphor, and only one step toward decoding the intimate mystery of consciousness.
We realized that it's not going to get us to the place of a meaningful connection that we want to get, and we shift the way we think about the product as a metaphor and we started adapting from the new metaphor that we wanted, the houseparty metaphor, versus the stage metaphor.
To lay a metaphor on top of a metaphor, imagine the dials instead as beakers full of liquid, as below.
His use of metaphor was really inspirational in an age for me when I didn't really knew how to use metaphor.
In a year when the "darkest timeline" metaphor was often used to describe events, the ghost ship metaphor is also tempting.
So as a metaphor for understanding who we are and how we relate to other people, consciousness uploading is a useful metaphor.
The only way this Pigs In Clover metaphor doesn't track for the robots comes down to the difference between the maze as a metaphor for seeking consciousness and a metaphor for Delos trying to put the hosts back in their cages.
In fact, arguably "priming the pump" is now a "dead metaphor," or a metaphor in which the original evocative meaning is largely lost.
It's a rich, intellectually interesting metaphor, if nowhere near as elegantly deployed as the similar metaphor in Beloved that Coates is cribbing from.
For example, the "nurturant parent [mother]" metaphor is most often associated with liberals, while the "strict father" metaphor is most often associated with conservatives.
That metaphor of eyelashes and waves mirrors Brühlmann's greater metaphor at play, which is the similarities between mermaids and girls on the brink of adulthood.
Certainly, "repetitive stress" (like "terrific workout") sounds like a metaphor for parenting and for family life in general, but it's decidedly only a partial metaphor.
Drake and his business associates have their weekly discussion on whether champagne itself is the metaphor, or if empty, gold-plated champagne glasses are the metaphor.
Sexual coercion, in one form or another, is as American as that baseball metaphor — a metaphor that sees girls' limits as a challenge boys should overcome.
Sontag concluded that the truest way to portray illness was without metaphor, and it might seem that Bettelheim was writing in the metaphor-free space of observational science.
Is Cats ... like ... a secret metaphor for something?
Russian Doll: The Metaphor Since Nadia is a video game developer, you naturally see that as metaphor for the way she keeps dying and going back to her starting point.
He could have been a maker of icons and iconography, like Warhol, who made a Campbell's soup can a metaphor for capitalism and made repetition itself a metaphor for fame.
Chickens act as a fairly good proxy for humans in a metaphor about diversity, but for that metaphor to work — as alluded in the show's title — we also need duality.
How that lines up with the metaphor doesn't fit perfectly, but I think that's where the human story kind of takes over a little bit more and replaces the metaphor.
It's an idea that would work only as metaphor — standing for everything that white artists did steal from black ones — yet the dancing is too constricted to make the metaphor resonate.
And the movie's central metaphor — the monster is depression!
That's a colorful metaphor — what are you getting at?
" The snowflake becomes the ruling metaphor of "Rusty Brown.
"Fantasy says okay, we'll use a metaphor, but behind the metaphor there is truth, and that is if you want to work — and you have to work — you can do whatever you want."
My position is to take a step back, through metaphor.
In a classic metaphor, the real fight is with herself.
Perhaps his favorite chess opening can serve as a metaphor.
But cellular computing is more than just a convenient metaphor.
But Martin O'Malley's podium is also a metaphor for us.
If the metaphor is too flowery for you, pick another.
The Maze is actually more of a metaphor for consciousness.
Musou games also serve as a powerful exercise in metaphor.
It's a metaphor for racism that got past the censors.
Who knew dragons have such a tremendous capacity for metaphor?
It's not a subtle metaphor and it never has been.
But contained in Palin's extensive football metaphor was a warning.
I don't know, there's probably a metaphor for 2016 here.
This serves as a metaphor for rescue, survival, and perseverance.
The metaphor was borrowed from television, and had mixed results.
It's a poetic metaphor, yes, but not a literal reality.
Online, in this metaphor, the utilities are Internet Service Providers.
JL: I'm gonna just keep running with this metaphor here.
Yes, but: A moonshot might not be the right metaphor.
To answer that question, let's use the neighborhood deli metaphor.
"[It's] a metaphor for our changing tastes," Stewart tells me.
It's a perfect metaphor for the state of our planet.
If that's not a metaphor I don't know what is.
The entire concept is a beautiful metaphor for Meredith's life.
Constructing a house is a great metaphor for additive construction.
What's the best metaphor for what translating Gabo was like?
Refinery29: Cellophane's a fun object to use as a metaphor.
"What better metaphor is there for women today?" she added.
The squad could be a metaphor for a rising China.
That's fine if you want to use a movie metaphor.
He used the metaphor of a pizzeria to illustrate this.
Look -- the metaphor for me is, it's a doctor's office.
That concept was a metaphor for our family and blood.
Either way, there's gotta be a metaphor in here somewhere.
Sometimes the truth lies in a metaphor or a rhyme.
White, white, white became the metaphor for all things good.
Mike Huckabee took two stabs at making an outraged metaphor.
She's the bully, is the the metaphor going on here.
" He adds, "The heartbeat is a metaphor for undying love.
Tharsis is more fascinating, anyway, as a metaphor for adulthood.
In Venter's case, the hyperbole takes the form of metaphor.
I'm using photography as a metaphor to describe black manhood.
To use a cooking metaphor, it's sort of like chicken.
It isn't a huge departure from the current interface metaphor.
His zeal becomes a belabored metaphor for his own abandonment.
Well, here we need to return to the original metaphor.
That's the metaphor I used about toast the other day.
Internecine war is the governing metaphor no matter who's playing.
Mobility is more than just a metaphor for getting ahead.
But that magic, Fawaz says, is a metaphor for technology.
It goes without saying which metaphor is hopefully more accurate.
I thought the issue was a metaphor for her vacillation.
"Swing for the fences," he said, wielding a baseball metaphor.
Mr. Trump just trots out the same old wooden metaphor.
Could any metaphor be more appropriate to our current situation?
Trump's Muslim ban is not feasible, but it is metaphor.
Trump's huge deportation plan isn't workable, but it is metaphor.
Some things are so obvious that subtle metaphor is impossible.
The worm in this metaphor is a sunrise in Maui.
Plus, its extended space metaphor fits Grande's current brand perfectly.
President Donald Trump "also uses the 'flood' metaphor," Miliband noted.
It questioned the metaphor of sleep as an off button.
The work is meant as a metaphor for political power.
And this enabled us to make the human metaphor complete.
For the game's story, it provides a perfect visual metaphor.
Yet, Franck sees a more important metaphor in the carapace.
What sparked the "table for two" as your visual metaphor?
They are a weirdly empowering metaphor for growth to me.
Other golems did not speak in metaphor about experiencing God.
We call it "throw," as a metaphor for the transportation.
A metaphor for life, as well as for this issue.
But that just shows the basic faultiness of the metaphor.
That incident seemed like such a perfect metaphor for … something.
Is there a better metaphor for the election of 2016?
Art and metaphor do not make other people's experiences identical.
But Dr. Hawking was not interested in being anyone's metaphor.
Yeah, I think probably Tim Cook ... I'm working that metaphor.
Was the name "Strong Island" a metaphor for your family?
Could that apple be a metaphor for her sexual libido?
Here's a metaphor to help make sense of the progress.
But early interests stuck; his narration abounds in medical metaphor.
A metaphor about taking the plunge with a new team?
And I still don't understand the metaphor of the goat.
It was a metaphor for his approach to the industry.
It's a weird metaphor for what you were just saying.
For Anderson, the allusion to lynching wasn't just a metaphor.
And thus, the Swede's life avoids becoming a strained metaphor.
Just think of the punch as a metaphor for accountability.
It's a nice metaphor for something, but also annoyingly vague.
Will Anna and Ben fix the dripping kitchen faucet — metaphor!
It's a small moment, but it's also possibly a metaphor.
But the environmental metaphor — especially pollution — is a helpful model.
Also: A wounded dog as metaphor; the experience of reading.
The episode was an apt metaphor for Trump's governing style.
The whole estate is a metaphor for Mr. Fourtou's childhood.
And monsters are more than a metaphor for Ms. Ferris.
At the risk of laboring the metaphor, burnout is inevitable.
Oh, well, the "big sleep" is a metaphor for — wait!
"It's a metaphor for immigration laws being enforced," Watson said.
The metaphor of 'Susan Sontag' was a great original creation.
The swan in the pond (the swan is a metaphor).
The tryborg is always distanced by metaphor, guesswork and desire.
People don't even notice that the set is a metaphor.
Flight is the best metaphor for writing that I know.
The top was on the bottom, kind of a metaphor.
"We have to push metaphor to get meaning," Mizen said.
Oh, they said, we thought that was just a metaphor.
That's a good metaphor for the time we're living in.
If that sounds like a metaphor, it most likely is.
As a visual metaphor, we've constructed a tower of mass.
Metaphor received, the concert continued and the party took off.
"The metaphor I'm using is it's our Gallipoli," says Bowman.
"BLK CLD is a metaphor for depression," explain the duo.
But — to horribly mangle a physics metaphor — what drives her?
As a metaphor, the mountaintop crystallizes a moment of possibility.
You think that ship has sailed, like a sloppy metaphor.
This, he says, is a metaphor for how Heptapods communicate.
You could call it a metaphor—I dunno, maybe it's not technically a metaphor—but it certainly encapsulates all of the reign of terror the Spurs have inflicted on the Thunder so far. Vicious.
If you can invent a child, you can, in turn, spare her: first, concoct those "graceful" attendants who shield her from harm, and then, in a metaphor for the metaphor, imagine a painlessly rescued turtle.
One way to understand a metaphor is as a vessel to communicate relations that cannot be easily described with discursive language, so that the metaphor can get around the limitations of conventional logic and causality.
"Buffy" used the monsters that crossed into the human world through the Hellmouth as a metaphor for the horrors of high school, which in turn were a metaphor for the horrors of life in general.
I think it's a really nice metaphor for supporting each other.
This initial scene at the pound made for a great metaphor.
Let's just say "let it all hang out" wasn't a metaphor.
"Specifically for him, it was a metaphor for AIDS," Condon added.
Oh look, it's a visual metaphor for men on the internet!
It's a metaphor for how people live their lives and move.
"That's a metaphor for, 'Remember me at my best,'" he said.
As a trope, they are a perfectly elastic metaphor for adversity.
You used the metaphor of a "secret menu" in Chinese restaurants.
It's kind of a metaphor for how we treat our privacy.
Which, ironically, is a perfect metaphor for what white feminism does.
Roth: The metaphor has now improved to the point of unimprovability.
They go home and attempt to split a mussel through metaphor.
If that fundamentally unequal dynamic shifts, then that metaphor is sullied.
That's an apt metaphor for the Tel Aviv metal scene, too.
The plant was a metaphor, but the woman would never know.
You're the comic relief AND very apt metaphor this night needed.
Opioid addiction isn't a metaphor for the ills of modern life.
" Schumer described the amendment as a "metaphor for the whole bill.
Exactly what they mean as a metaphor, however, remains frustratingly unclear.
And in terms of responsibility, the metaphor is almost too perfect.
Or take a similar tempting metaphor, one deployed by America's president.
It's a metaphor for our relationships as individuals with the planet.
He refers to them as the "little league," an enjoyable metaphor.
"Lift-off" is at last an apt metaphor for monetary policy.
Sjöblad's curiously biological metaphor inverts the standard vision of the body.
To extend the metaphor, bad wigs are the absence of air.
What is the Star Wars metaphor he's trying to work out?
The episode serves as a cruel metaphor for the ailing party.
Thus far, White House aides have refused to clarify the metaphor.
It's the ultimate metaphor for using the Canadian border for crime.
Microsoft's Mixed Reality Interface metaphor is an open-plan Cliff House.
It's a physical metaphor for being bogged down by your circumstances.
This headline is a metaphor for basically the entire world. pic.twitter.
His curiously biological metaphor inverts the standard vision of the body.
Holding all that in mind, the pussyhat was a perfect metaphor.
And robbin' season is a metaphor to where we are now.
In short, the evening became an apt metaphor for the campaign.
"'Paper Planes' is basically a metaphor for our love," Jean adds.
It's totally a metaphor for the reality we currently know. pic.twitter.
So it became my visual metaphor for an inquiry into origins.
Is there another, more sinister metaphor for globalization at work here?
That's probably a good metaphor for the politics at the time.
Gerwig's restaging adds a new layer of excitement and visual metaphor.
I always thought this was an interesting metaphor for the internet.
There's a metaphor in there somewhere, if you spoon deep enough.
So the metaphor has explanatory value, but its value is limited.
Bubblz uses the same metaphor but with a few extra tricks.
It's a perfect metaphor for the current state of black masculinity.
Exterminating the wolf became a metaphor for taming a wild America.
See, this whole ditching of the umbrella is a metaphor. Right?
When someone says they're "sweating blood," it's usually just a metaphor.
"Unplain speaking" is an entire category including politeness, metaphor and sarcasm.
If that is a meme... it's a metaphor for life really.
Eddie's final jump is a perfect metaphor for the entire film.
Then this week's episode of Fargo is the metaphor you need.
To better explain the process, Ertürk uses the metaphor of plumbing.
During difficult times, the metaphor of seeds holds particular emotional sway.
In the book, Mr. Taunton attributes the metaphor to Hitchens himself.
"Food and wine lends itself to adjectives, to metaphor," she said.
Was it a metaphor for keeping the door open for diplomacy?
For Colombians, the agreement involves "swallowing toads", in a local metaphor.
Whichever metaphor one likes best, it's quite clear what has happened.
"Fear" has used zombies most notably as a metaphor for addiction.
And I see that as a metaphor for the American experiment.
I want students getting their mind blown to remain a metaphor.
Perhaps only through metaphor can we approach the greatest of evils.
Yes, I used an off-putting metaphor in private type conversation.
At the risk of metaphor, they're right under City Hall's nose.
But why did you choose to make the metaphor so obvious?
"Money is a metaphor for love and control," Ms. Baltz said.
Like, my brain was taking the roller-coaster metaphor too literally.
It just happens to also work, you know, as a metaphor.
The Diarist sees herself as such a writer through a metaphor.
I remarked to Atwood that it felt like a prescient metaphor.
But we're also looking at a metaphor about the human condition.
In some ways, that's an apt metaphor for the show itself.
A nice metaphor for a potential technology-free world. Indeed. Thanks!
It's a metaphor for sex and love and consumerism or something.
L: So what could that possibly mean for Michael Jordan's metaphor?
Later, I asked Cecil about the implied metaphor in his sermon.
To make a metaphor of sickness is usually to imply judgment.
The same goes for the metaphor she chose for her title.
Indeed, secondhand smoke is rapidly becoming a metaphor for our time.
The sidewalk is a very nice metaphor for the Lebanese situation.
The metaphor of battle is deployed: We must combat the virus.
Fashion has never been afraid to embrace a somewhat obvious metaphor.
I think there's two spines of criticism, to use your metaphor.
All in all, it was a pretty decent metaphor for sex.
It has so many meanings and so many levels of metaphor.
In this (excellent) metaphor, the Robber is, of course, your baby.
That's a metaphor for what you can do in the world.
The metaphor may be fancy, but members' tastes often are not.
The idea of the body politic is an old, old metaphor.
Or, use zombies as a metaphor for something that scares you.
How can Mr. Brooks waste his intellect on this useless metaphor?
Do you think it's some kind of metaphor for the Wall?
I've always found it a fitting metaphor, now more than ever.
In this puzzle, a "Bed of roses?" is not a metaphor.
"It's actually a good metaphor for the movie," Wu said, excitedly.
"It became a metaphor for torture and maybe slavery," she says.
It's the perfect metaphor for the dysfunction of the entire system.
I understood the metaphor: Change your perspective to change your life.
It was a bummer, but also a perfect metaphor for 2016.
Full of heavy-handed metaphor, the play fairly bursts with topicality.
By the '90s, the metaphor was cemented in the American consciousness.
It is a metaphor for possibility far beyond its own borders.
I recognize it as some species of truth, light as metaphor.
This metaphor, probably a misquoting of Matthew 7:24, is confusing.
It was an apt metaphor for the campaign's broader media strategy.
Sexual misconduct on "Survivor" is not a metaphor for sexual misconduct.
On Monday he went back to his R&B metaphor toolbox.
So I thought, How do I make a metaphor for that?
Something Rachel Chavkin said to me brought this metaphor to mind.
It's a metaphor so stark that it almost sounds fake. Still!
Is it a metaphor for all the conflicts in the world?
When I said checks in the mail, that was a metaphor.
That may prove an apt metaphor for President Trump's foreign policy.
Rather, he serves as a metaphor for the spread of Christianity.
You could choose your own metaphor based on your particular outlook.
But The Lobster finds a surprising romantic depth in its metaphor.
SRS: What does the donkey mean as a metaphor to you?
I feel like it was an ... That feels like a metaphor.
The incoming administration, though, is not proposing to build a metaphor.
Some of the packaging around the sounds makes this metaphor explicit.
But for me, the metaphor is operating all the way through.
If I'm able to understand the metaphor, it probably is outdated.
There is no reliance on metaphor, no extravagant gesture or knowing aside.
Lucas continues to correct Dustin — it's an analogy, not a metaphor, Dustin.
The monument has also been interpreted as a "metaphor" for Putin himself.
To borrow Mr Xi's metaphor, China's house is rather dark after all.
His transition from scarecrow to Real Man is a metaphor ... or something.
It's a metaphor that resonates with many of his patients, he says.
There's no doubt that Parks intended his photograph to be a metaphor.
And metaphor, as applied to how we live our life, is wisdom.
But to me his new album Stadium requires a more simple metaphor.
Which is a metaphor for, 'Time to make great movies with Lionsgate!
In one of his letters, he picked the universal metaphor of sports.
Okay, so it's not a perfect metaphor, but you get the idea.
Practically every word we use to describe a computer is a metaphor.
Yes, the writers of this show really executed a metaphor that idiotic.
Often, he uses ice dragons as a metaphor to describe Castle Black.
"American copyright law is a product of morality and metaphor," Peters writes,
And it's a completely fair metaphor for what AT&T is doing.
Some fans thought it could also be a metaphor for Swift's sexuality.
Is it a metaphor for your place in the music scene/world?
The metaphor was solidified when I made Darth Vader Kylo's imaginary friend.
In fact, our subway system is a metaphor for New York values.
The bacteria are also a useful metaphor for her intrusive thoughts themselves.
Co-kickstarted the modern comic book era with its most powerful metaphor.
Every character is a fully realized idea, greater than a cheap metaphor.
In the case of Mazi, the figure is more than a metaphor.
This metaphor may be more accurate, but it is also less cheerful.
"The emperor has no clothes" metaphor should be lost on no one.
Kaitlyn: Maybe a metaphor for going... to release the new album soon!
Thomas Henske, a certified financial planner with Lenox Advisors, likes this metaphor.
There was the time Jeb put a crab in a frog metaphor.
There's a metaphor in there for the history of the real America.
It also functions as a metaphor for the book as a whole.
There's a lot of studies done on how metaphor enters into language.
The metaphor I use is chewing on tinfoil – that weird electric shock.
The metaphor is not lost on anyone who has followed Kesha's story.
And that is a kind of metaphor, I think, for Hillary's life.
The bull became a metaphor for anything people wanted it to be.
" Another KO." RD: Excellent use of metaphor here, if a bit mixed.
The hyphen functions here both as constructed language and as paradoxical metaphor.
Aronofsky explains it as a metaphor for the torture of Mother Earth.
It's visually very stunning and the use of metaphor is very powerful.
The revival of Mosul is a metaphor for Iraq as a whole.
To me, the issue is a metaphor for big government in general.
Explaining the vote, Mashable's Jason Abbruzzese used a cops and courts metaphor.
I'm using analogy, metaphor, and sentiment in sort of an architectural sense.
As with most plot devices in The Americans, it's a powerful metaphor.
It is often described as a metaphor but it is very deep.
We might not need a "thoughtful" backdrop of a godless universe metaphor.
I think in that book, "The Circle," the metaphor was a shark.
Cramer thinks Alcoa is the perfect metaphor for the market right now.
It's a road that — pardon my metaphor — must first be taken within.
Expensive earbuds that won't stay put is just a handy visual metaphor.
This can be taken as a metaphor for a lot of things.
The metaphor being that true communism is only accessible in cosmic form.
In 1997, we were all trapped by the war on drugs metaphor.
This is a dense topic, but fortunately Russell brought a helpful metaphor.
Nonetheless the pitch looks uneven, a metaphor for England's growing southern skew.
Both directors stumbled upon a powerful metaphor for societal alienation and paranoia.
There was an entire minute devoted to a metaphor about coffee tables.
Lindsey Graham: "The wall has become a metaphor for border security" pic.twitter.
In Females, the metaphor for desire shifts to self-abnegation or submission.
Whether he means this literally or as a metaphor isn't quite clear.
This feeling is not limited to the few fans of metaphor present.
Genes are strung along chromosomes like beads on strings (the common metaphor).
Road building is a crude metaphor, no doubt, but it mostly works.
I just didn't expect that metaphor to come from a kids' movie.
Holmes himself would have been distressed to see his metaphor taken literally.
At the same time, they are the book's ruling metaphor for sorrow.
Dean described it as a videotape, a metaphor appropriate for the eighties.
It's a metaphor for when it all gets a bit too much.
Some very intelligent scholars think the phrase is a metaphor for Rome.
It's a metaphor made literal: She exposes far too much of herself.
An elevator pitch is a metaphor, and it should stay that way.
His running becomes a belabored metaphor for an intermittent longing to escape.
It's easy for sophisticated observers to mock this homespun and hokey metaphor.
But he found that this is a great medium to do metaphor.
Time magazine offered the perfect metaphor for 2017's rally of contradictions.
But their failure to bloom under Trump's sun is a fitting metaphor.
It's a weird metaphor, but in my brain, that's how it works.
In part, this is because polling analysts got the central metaphor wrong.
In the world of Mr. Rapp, everybody gets to be a metaphor.
Wargames and their audience have become more comfortable with abstraction and metaphor.
"The mattress on the floor probably operates as a metaphor," he said.
"We have to have a different search and find metaphor," Whitman said.
The patriarchal Greek system is an apt metaphor for everyday institutional sexism.
His metaphor about Pinocchio becoming a real boy was in there too.
Let me come back to the metaphor of a book, though. Okay.
And football became a perfect culture war metaphor ... Which he held onto.
Instead, Richardson's work turns inward as a metaphor for his own struggles.
It is an exquisite metaphor for the benefits of love and compassion.
It could have been a metaphor for his campaign's entire first month.
Yet of course by adopting a fishing metaphor, it does precisely that.
Maybe the pool story is a better metaphor than the starfish story.
"I hope you see the metaphor here," her publicist said to me.
I could really find my way through a rage metaphor right now.
Colin Powell deployed the Pottery Barn metaphor before the invasion of Iraq.
It was a metaphor of liberty, a symbol of gratitude never forgotten.
There's a metaphor in there, if anyone cares to dig it up.
Steve Jobs used to discuss this in terms of a hockey metaphor.
It feels like a metaphor for both everything and nothing at all.
Its pages reveal how quickly metaphor can slide into obfuscation, abstraction, lying.
For Adam, this makes Waddah a "cosmic metaphor" for the Palestinian Nakba.
The women living at Rose Home reveal the shallowness of that metaphor.
In Plato's metaphor, the soul is a chariot guided by two horses.
Mr. Quarles, asked about that critique on Friday, offered his own metaphor.
The conversation between expressionist and formalist painting is a metaphor for this.
It is also an oddly fitting metaphor for your August astrological forecast.
"Grow the pie" is my least favorite metaphor in all of economics.
Please forgive the mixed bestial metaphor, but these Eagles aren't cuddly underdogs.
When it comes to illness as metaphor, Covid-19 is not subtle.
The meritocracy is based on the metaphor that life is a journey.
It's an apt metaphor for the changing body, both foreign and familiar.
They're already inching up toward the cheapest Cadillac — a familiar car metaphor.
But this book is also a sneaky metaphor for isolation and depression.
But it also makes a pretty good metaphor for the series itself.
The play is, in other words, a metaphor for modern presidential campaigning.
In high school, the Jesuit fathers explained that Genesis was a metaphor.
A multitude of voices is a metaphor touched on in the movie.
To achieve that, though, Baldwin needed a metaphor, the distance of whiteness.
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor and a warning, not a promise.
They serve as effective symbols and metaphor for losses small and large.
But the most potent thing about the song is its straightforward metaphor.
The surprise election result turns the series' premise into an unintended metaphor.
You could look at it as a metaphor for our troubled times.
In turn, lynching transformed from a material reality to a political metaphor.
But the metaphor highlights a central problem with the multi-step strategy.
Our original sin — the stolen fruit — "was not a metaphor," she writes.
Rather, trash was a metaphor for what happens when Democrats take power.
But wait, it was also the perfect metaphor for Eisenhower-era conformity!
As a sartorial metaphor, really, it doesn't get much better than that.
His buttoned-up appetite was a metaphor for his bottled-up emotions.
Here, in Bong Joon Ho's future, the metaphor works more, erm, literally.
It's telling that he used this as his primary metaphor for storytelling.
I had to remind myself not to make everything into a metaphor.
An amusing argument involving an overly extended metaphor about a dishwasher follows.
Which, frankly, feels like a metaphor for being a woman in 2016.
Indeed, Giorgio Armani's entire collection was practically a metaphor for the idea.
The "lovely woman" appeared to be a metaphor for these sneaky voters.
In sufficiently complicated times, everything takes on a veneer of easy metaphor.
Much of cable news is based, implicitly or explicitly, on this metaphor.
He's never said he wants to drown someone or used that metaphor.
Professors' penchant for using obesity as a metaphor for capitalism and excess.
The game metaphor doesn't work in the second season of Stranger Things.
"The sky always to me is a metaphor for potential," he says.
And I remember I used that metaphor as like, that's what's wrong.
I mean, it's laughable from when they leak whatever metaphor you want.
Actually, let's keep going with that heart metaphor just for a second.
"The swamp," Trump's dominant metaphor, is another, one that suggests pervasive malfeasance.
You can treat the whole story as a metaphor for growing up.
Look at everything he gets in here: There's a metaphor about how hot he is, which turns into a metaphor about how far ahead of his competition he is, which includes a punchline about sleeping because he's so far ahead, which sets up another punchline about not waking up his foot, which leads into another metaphor about how hard he's pressing down the gas pedal, which sets up another metaphor about how he's not stopping, which ultimately leads him to conclude, once again, in case it was unclear, how much he's winning.
It is almost too neat a metaphor for the inner turmoil of the women's lives on the show, but then, California itself is one big clumsy metaphor about wildness and want; Vallee just uses that to his advantage.
So in thinking through this problem I lean on this metaphor for animals.
PERINO: Is that the metaphor you said was going to blow our minds?
It's a grand metaphor some scholars see as Buddhist, Christian or secularly philosophical.
It was a metaphor for how easily even our monuments can be erased.
But it's a metaphor for the increasing irrelevance of Britain's political power-brokers.
Metaphor received here: Nadia is a survivor, and she's not happy about it.
In a weird way, this works as a metaphor for the film itself.
Its rise and decline serve as a metaphor for the city's volatile fortunes.
And the design cues of the Big Bang Vino played off this metaphor.
Things have changed, though, and people often use the metaphor of a silo.
SLH: We very intentionally put a lot of specific metaphor into the series.
The Westworld writers didn't come up with this metaphor out of the blue.
Donald Trump's board game is sort of the perfect metaphor for his campaign.
Instead they suggest how metaphor can fail in the face of such atrocity.
The wolf is very much a real presence, but it's also a metaphor.
As a metaphor for Brexit, it was always a bit of a joke.
But it could also be a metaphor for the experiences of women everywhere.
It's bizarre, and everyone has to search for the metaphor being used here.
I have this metaphor in the book about eating chocolate cake for breakfast.
But where West was vocal and outspoken, Abloh's opinion existed more in metaphor.
Sex as a grand metaphor for worship that you got a response to.
The metaphor of Berbatov being an artist is almost too strong to ignore.
SARAH TISHLERNew York Johnson proposes "divorce" as a metaphor for Brexit (November 3rd).
Elsewhere, he moves beyond metaphor to consider the physicality of the mountains themselves.
In a way, it's a metaphor for the relationship between business and government.
In another discussion about a scientific concept, Glantz used sex as a metaphor.
That might seem like a mixed metaphor, but it makes sense, trust us.
Robbin' Season is kind of like a metaphor for all of our characters.
Hydrobot was an instant meme, but also a metaphor for the event itself.
With this new dock metaphor, you rarely go back to the home screen.
All emoji are metaphors: lips are a metaphor for love, for kissing someone.
And, also, said he hates peanut butter (either as a metaphor or otherwise).
It's an apt, if depressing, metaphor for where we are at the moment.
A little dark, but an apt (and over-used) metaphor for 2017, sure.
The hypnotic state also functions as a metaphor, as Peele explained on Twitter.
Artist Nene Humphrey's 'Circling the Center' is a striking visual metaphor for grief.
So food is more than just a metaphor for sex—food is sex.
A particularly disconcerting display, also at the Cloisters, goes one metaphor too far.
His heroine is his metaphor for Africa at its truest: powerful and enchanting.
As absurdity outpaces reality, metaphor and hyperbole become the coin of the realm.
Nemea offers a wealth of resonance and metaphor for the state of Europe.
This metaphor reached its apogee in 2014, during a governor's race in Nigeria.
We have to hand it to Planned Parenthood; it's a pretty genius metaphor.
He describes this "paradox" as "serpentine," and I agree with the biblical metaphor.
If explanation via metaphor isn't your thing, here's the dirt on how Verify.
This might seem a poignant metaphor for the subsequent career of fugues themselves.
Again the park on top of the Transbay terminal is an apt metaphor.
Equal parts self-conscious, confident and narcissistic, the perfect metaphor for Veronica herself.
GUTFELD: They wall was always a visual metaphor about an enhanced border security.
I can't think of a better metaphor to prepare millennials for their 30s.
Admittedly, "my balding head is the distressed globe" is a very narcissistic metaphor.
Yeah, but I think it's the beginning of surrealism and of literary metaphor.
Well, it's a very old metaphor to think of time as a river.
The right metaphor can soothe fears, explain the recondite, and familiarize the unfamiliar.
For indies, the economic metaphor even holds to some degree: Platforms like itch.
Like every bar gotta be a metaphor, like some wannabe Lloyd Banks shit.
"It's a metaphor for the unknown because it's just so big," she explains.
"I've always thought the wall was a metaphor for securing the border," Sen.
I actually don't understand that metaphor at all, but maybe I'm missing something?
The name of the first album, Marshall says, was a metaphor for aspirations.
Meanwhile, Abraham and Glenn have a highly metaphor-ridden conversation about potential parenting.
The implied metaphor is too explicit by half, but irresistible all the same.
But Oyeyemi, like Carter, is never heavy handed in her use of metaphor.
"Yes, the shackles are off, which is actually an apt metaphor," Oliver said.
Progressive fundamentalism, to use a religious metaphor, is lousy at witnessing for itself.
Another metaphor is the broken vending machine in the hospital where Julia dies.
Rootedness is the most flexible metaphor for talking about the contextualized human being.
The open ocean has long been a metaphor for eternity and boundless freedom.
Being stuck up a tree is a metaphor for an enthusiasm that overshoots.
Instead of a political position, it offers a potent metaphor for political participation.
Or not just swimming in circles, to go back to Mr. Browne's metaphor.
Metaphor sometimes becomes symbolism in Mr. Trelinski's staging, and that's another thing entirely.
The OA is a masterpiece and a metaphor for our current crumbling dimension.
If that's not some kind of metaphor then I don't know what is.
Alex: RIP "Game of Thrones is a metaphor for climate change," I guess!
" Cuomo called the comparison a "metaphor for the mess this president is making.
Turns out the metaphor was subtle, at least by Donald J. Trump's standards.
The catastrophe becomes a metaphor for the implosion of the entire Soviet project.
The tech-as-addiction metaphor is sloppy, though it might not be wrong.
"Is there a metaphor in all of this?" a morning radio host mused.
He turned to a metaphor that might catch the attention of morning readers.
It's the perfect metaphor for how frozen and far from summer we are.
Alas, this world is too complicated for such an on-the-nose metaphor.
In that sense the 'universe' becomes a metaphor for our inner psychological space.
Take what you will from that very obvious metaphor for humanity's own futility.
The guy on fire is a metaphor for being on the police's radar.
It's all about metaphor, everyone is helpless there, no one would fight back.
The spinning even provided me an apt visual metaphor to latch on to.
It's a beautiful metaphor for the careful, exacting, and detailed ethos of Virgos.
Perhaps it's a metaphor for the many directions he'll take on this release.
Masha Gessen When a perfect metaphor is born, the world comes into focus.
As a metaphor for global warming, hellfire is almost too on the nose.
Times Insider: Do you view a dancer leaping as a metaphor for something?
No state serves as a better metaphor for the 2016 election than Michigan.
" Nixon, De Stefano writes, "was not at all pleased by the cowboy metaphor.
The White Walkers have always been a little paltry in terms of metaphor.
The metaphor is obvious for anyone who's ever been given the run-around.
It's set in the country's geographical middle, which should trigger a metaphor alert.
What made "Thrones" tough to wrestle with also made it a ubiquitous metaphor.
Their side called them "pilots of the ground," the metaphor causing no offense.
It's a thinly veiled metaphor for Western tools with a literal Western viewpoint.
You could say they're going to embody a different animal metaphor: the peacock.
If only the text were as spot on in its execution of metaphor.
That's a pretty good a metaphor for the blissful achievement of this show.
What the visual metaphor usually signifies, then, is a kinship of social identity.
"Weekend at Bernie's" was the metaphor Mr. Williams reached for to describe it.
This fearsome natural phenomenon is an apt metaphor for our country's current politics.
The kind of metaphor Christle seeks is at once truer and more tenuous.
It is a nice metaphor for what should be happening with the border.
Start by making a common-cold-related metaphor: Having a cold is like _________.
In a culture so passionate about metaphors, this was a metaphor too far.
The iceberg metaphor is what Jennifer Roth-Gordon invokes when talking about racism.
"Unfortunately, he pitched a two-hitter," the lawmaker said, extending the baseball metaphor.
She clarified that this wasn't a metaphor—it was proof Raniere was right.
The metaphor pulsates throughout the show as a kind of new aesthetic rhythm.
It's a strong metaphor, but it comes with its own host of problems.
Later that afternoon, up the road, Fanuc's executives delighted in Reed's pet metaphor.
Gone is the early metaphor of human evolution as a straightforward family tree.
Each level wasn't some metaphor for an outdated, empirically unsupported model of grief.
As an opening act for the couture, the metaphor was hard to miss.
Those rhetorical devices entail correspondences either too concrete (analogy) or too abstract (metaphor).
The seedy Kit Kat Club is the great escape — and a great metaphor.
That's the kind of metaphor present nowhere in the choreography of Cholly Atkins.
The soundtrack is quite difficult to listen to, which can be a metaphor.
This metaphor, by my lights, escapes being a little too obvious very narrowly.
I think that's the best metaphor for how I feel about this record.
Many artists are "blackening" art objects as a metaphor for race and power.
Incidentally, that's not a bad metaphor for the emotional state he projects here.
It remains the perfect metaphor for the fear and shame of Fire Island.
I'll extend the metaphor: the singers, ebullient as they are, represent the kid.
Let's just take a look at this living-metaphor again for a second.
What may no longer have any power as a theological metaphor (I remember an evangelical hymnal from the nineteen-seventies entitled "Sounds of Living Water") may still have power as an ecological metaphor, and may need to, in our warming climate.
Unfriending is, to borrow an apt metaphor, the digital equivalent of building a wall.
The redundancy of the parrot's words serve as a metaphor for cyclical, empty discourse.
I'm going to give you a metaphor for how I think about consumer businesses.
And, because the Internet loves a good metaphor, the garbage jokes are flowing aplenty.
"dancing sexy" as a metaphor for the act of sex: Henry Miller described Cleo's
But Coulter, keeping the metaphor going, argued that now it's closer to 4 a.m.
In the end, the metaphor twists back on itself, and it's not totally satisfying.
This is a less-than-subtle metaphor for what's currently happening to the hosts.
I think almost everything that happens in that gym is a metaphor for life.
Can you tell me how you came to use the chupacabra as a metaphor?
But this bad metaphor for crypto's success has been mired by a tragic death.
Writer Dmitry Bykov said Dmitriyev&aposs case is a metaphor for today&aposs Russia.
"To use a metaphor, I'm a mother, too, I have two sons," she said.
Which, you've got to admit, is a pretty handy metaphor for this preordained lifelessness.
She also has some hiking advice which may or may not be a metaphor.
Nancy Reagan's death at 94 has the feeling both of tragedy and of metaphor.
It's a metaphor; it didn't happen — and I'm thrilled not to have seen it.
The most accurate metaphor for foreign firms in America today is of disappointed hopes.
It takes the game's sharpest metaphor and makes it progressively duller throughout the story.
"It's the ultimate metaphor: horrors of adolescence manifesting through these actual monsters," she shared.
" I was like, "Fuck, that's a sad, sad metaphor for nuclear families across America.
The wound is a metaphor, as ancient as Greek myths involving never-healing wounds.
Where each word is more than one thing at once and everything's a metaphor.
Bernie Sanders before launching into a very detailed metaphor to explain the 2016 campaign.
As the flames consume each set, the metaphor is clear, if not exactly subtle.
The first episode whizzing five years into the future is kind of a metaphor.
Basically, it's the perfect visual metaphor for life, finals, 2018 and so much more.
If they don't, the metaphor will mislead (which, for politicians, is sometimes the point).
Cords, and our attachment to them, have taken on a metaphor weighted in existentialism.
What's more, they view these hyper-realistic fake plants as something of a metaphor.
One thing the epidemic is not, according to reporter Dan Vergano, is a metaphor.
A horrific metaphor for Trumpcare: this disabled woman literally being ripped from her wheelchair.
This seems to be a pretty pointed metaphor for the state of their marriage.
Another animal death that doubles as a rich metaphor for America's crumbling political system.
Despite his bravura effort, I'm not sure McKibben can make the war metaphor work.
The Society also doubles as a metaphor for the current world in multiple ways.
This app metaphor works quite well for document-based apps, such as Google Drive.
That's why I walk around with jewelry on: It's a representative metaphor for that.
Lyrically, Byrne forgoes visceral scene-setting, instead using metaphor to dissect complex emotional dynamics.
It turns your iPad into a more capable tablet with a new navigation metaphor.
For people at the bottom of the credit pile, it is an apt metaphor.
Still, the metaphor falls short of most users' experience of wandering around the site.
The closet metaphor didn't show up until at least the 1960s, according to Chauncey.
But my sense is that many addicts use the phrase more as a metaphor.
In a way, Howle's stellar performance works as a metaphor for the film itself.
It sort of rolls off the tongue, but I think it's the wrong metaphor.
It's an unexpected surreal element meant to be a metaphor for "machismo," says Tipping.
Again, there's a metaphor to jazz: to improvise means to embrace making a mistake.
Q: Why did you choose shapes as your key metaphor for describing money journeys?
The dominant metaphor used to explain net neutrality is the image of a highway.
Throughout history, we have been viewed as sites of spectacle, fundamental excess, and metaphor.
That was the metaphor that struck me with from The Lord of the Flies.
The obvious political metaphor has already been pointed out and it will surely persist.
Everyone dances, but nobody moves Also, the whole thing is a metaphor for purgatory.
Many view her as less of a traditional character, and more of a metaphor.
That's an old metaphor, but it captures something new or ascendant in our politics.
New York, glittering in the distance, serves as an apt metaphor throughout the film.
So, is Obama's packing list a metaphor for the current state of our country?
If Kingdom Hearts's Coliseum of battles is the metaphor, then we're all just Sora.
There is nothing here for us to interpret, not a metaphor to be found.
Bob Casey laid claim to the "first person to use the Nixon metaphor" award.
During his talk, he made a metaphor about being oppressed in America that stuck.
The ocean has been an all-consuming metaphor for the lives of these women.
The example of the Komodo lizard suggests a compelling political metaphor for our time.
But the two buns could also act as a rather tenuous butt metaphor too.
I get it, I get it, the ghost is a metaphor but also LOL.
The war on drugs is a horrible metaphor for a nation's response to addiction.
He borrowed a metaphor from his father, Singapore's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew.
It's not the first time zombies have been used as a public health metaphor.
They decide a lush leather couch is the metaphor and they sit upon it.
It's a useful metaphor for approaching the world around you with openness and curiosity.
NEW YORK (CNN)Is there a better metaphor for athletic achievement than tower running?
Rather, it's a pretty solid metaphor for Apple's approach to the space this far.
The recent film Arrival provides an excellent metaphor for our current approach to technology.
You've talked about "Spring Day" being a moment of recovery, using a seasonal metaphor.
The "firework" is a metaphor in this case, but like, it's also an opportunity.
Newman's unsuccessful foray into chart-making is an apt metaphor for the book itself.
"I'm from the peaceful island of Iceland but we use this as a metaphor."
Senator Chris Murphy chose an even more evocative metaphor: This is a joke, right?
To borrow Mr. Hobbs's metaphor, the law has created an affordable housing arms race.
Some took the opportunity to comment on more serious issues using the school metaphor.
It is food as metaphor, food as the basis for a deeply felt union.
And it's in the final moments that Mr. Jasperse reveals his most potent metaphor.
It's a metaphor about who we get upset about caging and who we don't.
I would say the film is really a metaphor for a long-term relationship.
The only way to understand the Internet, at least at first, was by metaphor.
Mr. Bernard uses the bible's first couple, Adam and Eve, as his central metaphor.
Mr. Pollack said he often heard Sunni Arab leaders express this as a metaphor.
To use a tired metaphor: Booker is like the Heineken of Democratic presidential candidates.
It's a dehumanizing metaphor that turns vulnerable people's lives into a destructive elemental force.
An egg inside an egg sounds like some weird metaphor for something, but no.
They use the hotel stay as a metaphor for emotional estrangement and societal disconnectedness.
Perhaps that's a metaphor too far, but it gives a sense of the distinction.
And in that way the film serves as a metaphor for its own aspirations.
There's a metaphor here, albeit one so explicit that it barely qualifies as such.
"That was a metaphor for what Americans need to do right now," she says.
The collapse became an irresistible metaphor for the state of Olympic readiness in Brazil.
The flies were becoming a metaphor for my feelings toward the entire Venice boardwalk.
"That is exactly the metaphor," Paolo Ramos, one of the organizers, told VICE Impact.
In this play, filled with metaphor and symbolism, a sort of electrical discharge blazes.
But stepping back for a second, I've never really got this whole ceiling metaphor.
She was there in Wulia's installation — not so much a metaphor as a description.
It's a legible, if forced, metaphor for the societal hazards of algorithms and automation.
And Mr. Gardley's fondness for metaphor can sometimes strangle what should be simple exposition.
What a perfect metaphor you have given us for inequality in America in 2018.
I wonder if the lotion will be the last straw excuse the mixed metaphor.
"A good metaphor is driving a car and setting a maximum speed," Lakens says.
The Zookeeper's Wife also benefits from its central metaphor, which seems to write itself.
We can call it a metaphor, but damn if it isn't on the nose.
As a metaphor for what happens to everything touched by Trump, it's too easy.
The Trump administration is, to employ a seasonal metaphor, an island of misfit toys.
To me, this seemed a sad metaphor for life, worthy of an Ibsen play.
Freud's concept of the Death Drive has always been a deep metaphor for me.
Like, I don't have any fight's dog, whatever the metaphor is, I don't care.
" 30D: "The RITZ" is a metaphor for luxury, as in "putting on the Ritz.
The little man is a perfect metaphor for our alienation from our own bodies.
But 30-odd years later, Blasey answered with a literal metaphor of her own.
It's increasingly used as a metaphor — rock star politicians or movie directors or whatever.
Not a bad metaphor for our present position on the precipice of human existence.
It's no wonder that the fire became an instant metaphor for the country's decline.
Without pressing too hard, this novel proposes the peloton as a metaphor for marriage.
What's incredible about this story is that Chiang pushes this metaphor another layer deeper.
There are benefits to having been associated with [particular] athletes, in the sneaker metaphor.
As metaphor and as entertainment, it's everything you look for in a summer diversion.
If there's a single metaphor in this entire experience, you know, that's probably it.
" Besides, he added, "What better metaphor for a broken heart than a crashed motorcycle?
I do want to ask you guys about interpreting Parasite as a class metaphor.
Number of ways in which this is a metaphor for contemporary black American life.
Really, though, boxing is a more apt sports metaphor than a horse race, since
The bear, a mother, is killed (the better to be used as a metaphor).
They view the title as a metaphor for music they believe blooms between cultures.
To understand the competing Democratic health care plans, consider an elaborate home construction metaphor.
A grand metaphor for peace, which isn't always what you imagine it to be.
The episode is titled "Tornado," and that is not merely some kind of metaphor.
"So he's built a big beautiful metaphor, that's all the wall was," Avlon added.
Q: Are your risky ballooning adventures an apt metaphor for how you approach business?
Sixth, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," because it works as a metaphor for everything.
Even his diminutive size served as a kind of metaphor: he was energy compressed.
It's not a perfect metaphor, but it still works on some fundamental, intuitive level.
The New York-Los Angeles divide is a handy metaphor for the ensuing divorce.
I think a good metaphor for what's happening right now is just like pollution.
The wall has become a metaphor to Mr. Trump and his millions of supporters.
To transpose the antitrust framework onto issues of election interference would require metaphor gymnastics.
The painter wanted the viewer to see actual gold, without metaphor: the Gold Rush.
To use the metaphor of our time, cooking tripled the human brain's processing power.
It's hard not to think of the exhibition as a metaphor for NURTUREart's travails.
This light phenomenon translates directly into a metaphor for our fear of the unknown.
To switch the metaphor, Wallace put the ball on the tee for Donald Trump.
In Get Out, as in many horror films, there is no overarching fantasy metaphor.
If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor.
"The swamp" is a poor metaphor for their vision of a more robust democracy.
It's not a particularly subtle metaphor, but that doesn't make it any less effective.
The title likely also doubles as a metaphor for a door to the real world.
The heterogeneity underlying cancer can be described through the metaphor of birds, rabbits and turtles.
There is literally a New Yorker article about them being a metaphor for Trumps presidency.
AvD: I saw his pigeon experiments as a metaphor for how we live with nature.
It's a fitting metaphor for climate change, say scientists: We're in deep, and getting deeper.
I always thought this was an awfully dated metaphor—who even goes to carnivals anymore?
Some people are using the "fox guarding the hen house" metaphor to describe these picks.
Some, indeed, would go further, and convert this village from a metaphor into a reality.
The modern trolleys and 12 shiny stations feel a bit like a metaphor for rebirth.
There are certainly no fata morganas in Dia Al-Azzawi's work, no layers of metaphor.
And that feels like such a good metaphor for actually what they're trying to do.
His stripped-down preparations are an apt if unintentional metaphor for going back to basics.
So I used the metaphor "secret menu" to mean: Do we have a secret menu?
They see no irony in using an orchestral group metaphor to describe this solitary creature.
"The 'idea' behind the label is basically a pretty on-the-nose metaphor," he added.
The aptness of the monster metaphor hinges, to some extent, on both groups' destructive tendencies.
He talks about death a lot, so the goldfish-in-salt metaphor is pretty good.
You'll catch the emotion in the rhythm, whether or not you grasp every Jacobean metaphor.
Schumpeter provided a new metaphor for describing the energy of a market economy: creative destruction.
The performer becomes one of those birds as a metaphor of our role within life.
But the film's efforts at metaphor or relevance only amount to a few vague shrugs.
For a time, the word "Chappaquiddick" rivaled "Watergate" as a metaphor for catastrophic political scandal.
But it's the sort of metaphor that someone on the Alt-Right would use instinctively.
In an obvious metaphor, the Dutchess spends most of her time stripping thorns from roses.
And pardon this next metaphor, but the next component is a sort of toilet bowl.
That's a mixed metaphor and doesn't make any sense, but people know what I mean.
Right, so my metaphor is it's kind of fun to fumble around in the dark.
"The rabbi at our wedding used the table as a metaphor for marriage," he recalled.
It's a worthy metaphor to understand this part of the puzzle, but it's not reality.
It's an apt visual metaphor for a postdoc's—Mack's—place in the science career path.
DESPITE their dour reputation, economists frequently play with metaphor and simile, just like literary folk.
Perhaps the s'mores are a metaphor for piecing their lives back together into something delicious?
It's a very durable metaphor, and you can use it in a lot of ways.
I do know this – and it was really bizarre – I was trapped in a metaphor.
The "meat" then becomes both a metaphor and a device for their consummation in Aamis.
It's a hilarious metaphor for an experience that fathers everywhere are supposed to relate to.
The number, directed by the brilliant Petra Collins, seemed like a metaphor for Gomez's year.
They were also appreciated by a great economist, Irving Fisher, as a useful economic metaphor.
It's part metaphor, part reality, and just strange enough to keep us on our toes.
Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) just used a metaphor to describe Obamacare: a rogue goat.
Unless they believe we can't get better as a society, they have the wrong metaphor.
They should choose the method, and metaphor, for their political speech with equal strategic guile. 
"I think the cat was a metaphor for Dr. Carr's compassion/empathy," user ilujg wrote.
Is the show making a metaphor between being a lesbian and being a secret superhero?
Judaism is only his way in, a mighty metaphor for all religions and all peoples.
"It's a metaphor for one of the core things of being human," he told us.
Ms Monáe's previous music tackled similar themes to "Dirty Computer", though often cloaked in metaphor.
What I realized was that the Peace Train is a metaphor for one's own life.
Boats have frequently been a metaphor in her work for the sea journeys migrants make.
In this metaphor, Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe does not want to run the marathon.
Prof. White: It could be an apt metaphor, but not for the reasons he thinks.
In a way Speed Dating for Ghosts is good metaphor for romance in video games.
" Returning to his older metaphor, Graham added, "Donald is like being shot in the head.
The startup metaphor is a really good one," he said, "where you have to iterate.
Sure, we get the metaphor – Harris has been public about his own sober lifestyle before.
A better medical metaphor for Trump is neither disease nor cure, but late-stage symptom.
As a refresher, take a look at Trump Jr.'s candy themed political metaphor below.
We live in a time now where people are throwing this political metaphor onto everything.
To compound the metaphor: a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto.
And yet Romesberg's metaphor points to a tension between expansive and restrictive views of technology.
One limit of the DNA = story metaphor has to do with the way reading works.
This metaphor helps illustrate the second big thing that's caused Trump to look more competitive.
It is easy to use rape a metaphor or catalyst to get at something else.
I do know this—and it was really bizarre—I was trapped in a metaphor.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers turned the 1950s' communism-related paranoia into an eerie metaphor.
She explained the magistrate went into an extended soccer metaphor, which was lost on her.
If you need a metaphor for London's mayoral election, you could do a lot worse.
For Kauffmann, the works' gaudy, flashy veneer is a perfect metaphor for the Valley Girl.
It is a romantic metaphor of the artist courting chaos and death, which isn't surprising.
I don't know if it is quite an innuendo though — perhaps just a sloppy metaphor?
This question gets to the heart of the problem with the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor.
She no longer needs to "haunt" streets, the strangely spectral metaphor used by Virginia Woolf.
And we still need a powerful metaphor like the marketplace to rationalize and support it.
Often, it compels us to such an extent that we forget it is a metaphor.
In "Pumpkinflowers," Matti Friedman's ­sober and striking new memoir, this ­metaphor finds its sharpest articulation.
It is not hard to find a metaphor here for the country's current political landscape.
Less like a holiday from life than like some kind of terrible metaphor for it.
It is rich in metaphor, something Mr Mitchell was once told was beyond autistic people.
And he is, if you accept his metaphor, just at the beginning of his metamorphosis.
He wants badly to understand the man for whom this devotion was a central metaphor.
Now we're in danger of letting that metaphor get out of control all over again.
In his eulogy, BoJack muses on the nature of sitcoms as a metaphor for life.
But Fagan does not use metaphor as poetic immunity for her characters or her readers.
" The person who reveals this then adds, "I used to think it was a metaphor.
The metaphor of the brain is tempting, but "neurons" and "synapses" deserve those scare-quotes.
Athena seems like a hifalutin metaphor for yet another streaming service from a multinational megacorp.
The metaphor in 'Modern Leper' becomes an almost fable-like explanation of sadness or pain.
It's sort of a metaphor for the political climate right now—the loudest voice wins.
And that's a metaphor in itself, wrapped up in the overall theme of the show.
I hate to make a horrible metaphor thing, but there's been a lot going on.
For me, the marijuana legalization movement is a great metaphor for American democracy at work.
I use the metaphor of a Democratic tidal wave up against a Republican sea wall.
What is the JT Leroy story a metaphor for then if it isn't a hoax?
My fellow members and I were treated to one metaphor, adage and allegory after another.
One of them, Sriram Krishnan, offered a metaphor: Let's say you're at a house party.
Steve Kunzweiler, the district attorney, likes to explain women's imprisonment using a metaphor about spankings.
Truman's war metaphor succeeded in launching the race to find a safe vaccine against polio.
One metaphor would be like the difference between drinking a beer and drinking hard liquor.
In the ancient world, even monuments to the gods contained physical imperfections, a simple metaphor.
This week, Kendrick Lamar will interpret that metaphor quite literally with the release on Feb.
It occurred to us that the volcano is an interesting metaphor for a loaded gun.
This metaphor becomes central to Destiny's growing realization that things are getting out of hand.
The nightingale's devotion to the rose is a metaphor for both spiritual and earthly love.
In hindsight I'm glad I chose it, though it wasn't a metaphor for my family.
But as the media scholar Whitney Phillips has argued, the problem lurks inside the metaphor.
"Winesburg" quickly became a cultural byword, a metaphor for the yawning emptiness of rural life.
It's a metaphor for how the tax bill is a step in the wrong direction.
The metaphor that comes to mind is of a river, its great volume washing by.
How gleefully he clung on to that triumph, though, became a metaphor for his reign.
"You got family," Sanchez said, landing on a metaphor that the outside world might understand.
They kept reciting the prayer, and for their new American family it reverted to metaphor.
In fact, within that metaphor, the title of The Dead Don't Die seems vaguely menacing.
You could read this as a hero's tragedy, or as a metaphor for Mahler's life.
All right, I'm still working on that metaphor, but let's talk about the printing press.
So you want to find the common answer with the metaphor of a clock. Exactly.
It's a tic of my trade to say so, but I spy a metaphor there.
The further the metaphor extends, the harder it becomes to pin down the vectors involved.
It was as if life were offering a unsubtle metaphor for a unsubtle political season.
Lethem's chief metaphor in "The Feral Detective" finds the "wild edge" of Los Angeles — i.e.
Which is a metaphor for something in fashion, if beholders care to think about it.
Bleecker Street became both a cliché and a metaphor for the rest of the city.
Dr. Oakley's lessons are rich in metaphor, which she knows helps get complex ideas across.
In one essay, Sanmao pauses to analyze her own wardrobe, and lands on a metaphor.
Her metaphor is dated — it obviously precedes launderettes — but the message was a powerful one.
The two roads, or "ways," are Proust's metaphor for the possibilities and diversities of life.
It took a few days before he landed on the right metaphor for his experience.
I pictured someone running with only one drumstick, surely a bad metaphor for a footrace.
Is the yellow brick road a metaphor for the gold standard in the late 1800s?
Opium addiction becomes an over-chewed metaphor for the lulling security of one's native home.
"I think that was a metaphor," Jossi said, when I asked about the border wall.
We're at the juncture where history meets metaphor for something we can call monstrous whiteness.
People riff on the concept constantly, extending the metaphor far beyond its intended, abstract purpose.
The masks are also a metaphor for another one of Lennox's obsessions: Self-perpetuated myths.
Also: Interplanetary, interspecies sex might function better as a sick joke than an earnest metaphor.
" Benyamin has described the book as a "metaphor for the world today, full of fanatics.
In the murk of scientific inquiry, every researcher looks to a ruling metaphor for guidance.
This is, perhaps, the best metaphor for Westbrook: He is a pair of loaded dice.
Some of her best bits take the shape of an elaborate metaphor dragged out indulgently.
As a metaphor, "weaponization" creates paranoia and the impression that nothing is immune from conscription.
And her plan wound up being a metaphor for her broader problems in the race.
As a visual metaphor, it's perhaps a bit too cheeky — Kendall shits the bed again!
It is a clever choice, reminding us that a metaphor never got anyone to freedom.
He doesn't seem to regard it as a metaphor for a more sensible immigration policy.
Ride Your Wave's central metaphor is often didactic, with the film repeatedly hammering it home.
NEW ORLEANS — It was a perfect metaphor to describe the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
In an accurate but obvious metaphor, it's surrounded by a graveyard with crumbling, toppling headstones.
Is it overwrought to project a metaphor from the cosmos onto our terrestrial political affairs?
Some may call it the impending Singularity; others may call it a metaphor for life.
Yet despite the silliness, Stamaty actually values dishwashing as a metaphor for the creative process.
One strategy Shapiro recommends in the book is using a metaphor to describe the relationship.
For Brody, the fish is a metaphor for being hooked on consumerism and convenience culture.
Libby: The show is really hammering on the bioweapon-as-toxic-secret metaphor, isn't it?
Let's not talk about how this whole thing is a metaphor for comparing dick sizes.
It's an ideal metaphor for the artist's ability to bring ancient concepts into today's world.
I like its looks and the simple story it tells, wrapped in a relatable metaphor.
And it's impossible for me not to see this tree as a metaphor for Johnny himself.
" But he wanted the photographers to view Israel and the West Bank "as place and metaphor.
The centerpiece is a jazz marathon (the more accurate metaphor might be "smorgasbord") on Friday, Jan.
The metaphor — sorry, analogy — of the season is the Mind Flayer, another Dungeons and Dragons term.
It's almost like a metaphor for everything that terrifies people about Donald Trump's increasingly likely presidency. 
Rather than coding its ideology in metaphor or subtext, it's danced right in front of you.
Sex is a symbol, a metaphor for how we relate to ourselves and to our spirituality.
Season six is so intriguing because its central political metaphor works in a variety of ways.
They're a metaphor for the isolation he experienced as a visitor who couldn't speak the language.
The closest LeFou gets to a sex metaphor is a smile, before the camera moves elsewhere.
SocGen termed it a "black swan" — a metaphor for surprise events that severely affect the world.
Lizzie: "Big Fish" is special because it's relatable and could be a metaphor for absolutely anything.
To best illustrate her point, she compares lovers to food, which is actually a perfect metaphor.
The title of Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan's new sophomore album, Bloom, is a multipurpose metaphor.
At the same time, the story is a tragic metaphor for losing a parent to dementia.
A jarring, loosely woven stripe also interrupts the graph, a metaphor for the industry's gender gap.
The appeal of the metaphor is obvious, given that it maps so neatly onto human behavior.
This is a weird metaphor, but imagine I couldn't move my arms because they were tied.
I think it's also clear that the metaphor of "the cloud" is a really bad one.
It's essentially a sensory deprivation tank, and Reality Steve's Stockholm syndrome metaphor doesn't seem far off.
Intricate glass sparrows serve as an apt metaphor for millions of refugees who can't go home.
The entire idea of the Tethered is based in a metaphor, not a rigorous scientific process.
Humanity has hung the planet out to dry, they seem to say: hardly an original metaphor.
YS: I also see movement as a metaphor for a number of things — migration, travel, independence.
"You know, that's a really good metaphor," Baker says, immediately deep in thought on the subject.
Greg: I mean, in the religion metaphor that would make him more like a Messianic figure.
This new app metaphor is just an example of a much bigger change under the hood.
In a weird metaphor, I think about what we do as almost like Saturday Night Live.
Rilke loved metaphor unabashedly —  even though some of his verses risk feeling cheesy by today's standards.
It just might be the perfect metaphor for all the craziness that happens during the holidays.
There's a "life support" metaphor in "breathing new life" if you want to reach for it.
Yes, this is supposed to be a brewing metaphor for how Mary's own life will go.
The resulting candy (to complete this metaphor) that launched this week is Aria for Connected Vehicles.
Sports as metaphor for life is a simple enough premise, but Fordjour pushes his contemplation further.
If this isn't a metaphor for his failure of a presidency, I'm not sure what is.
The dark of the outside world gets them, piece by piece (an apt metaphor for adulthood?).
But at least we got another terrific visual metaphor for the Trump Administration before he did. 
Sensitive folkie troubadour tries to postmodernize, winds up incoherent — what a metaphor for pop music's collapse.

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