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Music is more of a metaphoric conversation in many cases.
But poetry has an unusually large and ungrounded metaphoric scope.
Tattoos are decorative, often metaphoric, sometimes regrettable, but always injurious.
Or consider the metaphoric capacities of the triangle or square?
But of course, I run over a lot of metaphoric pedestrians.
So this image could be a metaphoric depiction of their meeting.
Every restriction on access to abortion draws the metaphoric walls closer.
That is, the branch is an actual and metaphoric Faraday cage.
The metaphoric weight of walls blinds us to their security weaknesses.
To have a child, real or metaphoric, is to enter adulthood.
The automatic metaphoric associativity of "the window" was just too much.
But he wanted to kind of do some metaphoric calculus here.
" Blood-borne pathogens, both real and metaphoric, figure prominently in "Rawblood.
Sometimes it takes the audible, metaphoric form of a hammered drum.
The Kingsman video is CLEARLY satirical and the violence depicted is metaphoric.
An embarrassment of metaphoric riches for our artless embarrassment of a president!
One should note that this poetics has no particular commitment to metaphoric consistency.
Sterling mixes metaphoric and semantic play, with an intuitive grasp of his materials.
Sinkholes, blankets of peaches, thunderstorms and breasts bruised raw all play significant metaphoric roles.
They're going to think it's a glitch and grapple with literal and metaphoric control.
But she does speak freely to their geologic nature, at least in a metaphoric sense.
That loss has already sparked another, metaphoric conflagration: the fight over what should replace it.
I am interested in this residue as a poetic/metaphoric and reality-based conceptual muse.
Their kids will be tied to them by their metaphoric leashes for the foreseeable future.
Here we are, taking off our metaphoric tignons and embracing our kinks and curls publicly.
Hard to tell, but he might have just handed over flowers for Nicki's metaphoric tombstone.
The short linear marks make me think of metaphoric raindrops, as if a landscape could cry.
According to his friend Jonathan Raban, Lowell was "the most continuously metaphoric" person he'd ever met.
These are systems built on our (mostly metaphoric) blood and sweat to benefit those in power.
Whatever its metaphoric resonances, the concerto kept me hooked, and Mr. Kavakos gave a riveting performance.
And then I look for a corresponding animal whose symbolic meaning makes for a good metaphoric fit.
Working within this curious literary constraint, Mr. Griffiths created song texts of wondrous variety and metaphoric power.
Because the superhero genre definitely needs another brooding antihero who struggles with his literal (and metaphoric) demons.
The Americans The season premiere of "The Americans" on Wednesday night began in darkness, literal and metaphoric.
The cat, also this movie's title character, has some metaphoric weight, representing the life Emily left behind.
That first metaphoric pair of glasses rendered me more or less colorblind for a contented few hours.
The film is a metaphoric reflection of the ecological and sectarian threats posed to the natural world.
Daniel Rourke: The language of the 3D printer is very significant for us in its metaphoric potential.
The neighborhood is a good one, and none of its residents enjoyed looking at a metaphoric hell-pit.
Our taste now is for the miniature and metaphoric — works too exquisite to live outside the living room.
Yet there's rarely anything arch about Lopez's highly explicit descriptions of erotic encounters (rendered with nonexplicit, metaphoric choreography).
As you get in touch with spring's gifts, its meaning and metaphoric reminders, make it a year-round meditation.
When Marcos accidentally knocks over some photos, shattering the glass in the frames, the moment vibrates with metaphoric force.
But in his new novel, Mr. Whitehead grabs onto the most richly metaphoric conveyance of all: the Underground Railroad.
But for most, in the workplace and other institutional settings—particularly corporate environments—we must don a metaphoric tignon.
So is the ultimate reveal of the giant sculpture, a metaphoric angel — instantly recognizable in the West — wearing white.
TU: I want to use the metaphoric possibilities of painterly technique to energize the stories the paintings are telling.
Rich people living behind walls they think can't be breached by any rising tide, literal or metaphoric, made this disaster.
These humble, domestic, familiar materials serve a narrative function as metaphoric signifiers bridging and interweaving personal trauma with public catastrophe.
He told reporters he would like to engage in a duel with Gattine, a remark he later described as metaphoric.
Made of collaged and painted elements, he is several colors, a metaphoric depiction of all who are oppressed in America.
The void, though, is a larger metaphoric problem that zoning regulations are not likely to address in the immediate future.
Stories of sacrifice, literal and metaphoric, run throughout human history, so of course they have long been reliable cinematic fodder.
Part of Wolfe's genius was his realization that in science fiction, as in Catholicism, the literal and the metaphoric are intertwined.
The most important data point in this analysis is his ongoing embrace of Nancy Pelosi —fortunately for her, a metaphoric one.
As baseball in 2015 had a single nonwhite manager, his invocation of metaphoric lows that year had a Death Valley quality.
I believe he is what one might describe as "a reluctant Surrealist," a writer who naturally thinks in highly metaphoric language.
But they end up in a metaphoric bull ring — free of actual blood, of course, this being a comedy by Yasmina Reza.
"What George understood is that it was always about creating a metaphoric space for protest and resistance," says cultural critic Greg Tate.
Colson Whitehead has long had a thing for the metaphoric possibilities of mechanized modes of transport, the more old-fashioned the better.
Sherrill also puts the monster to metaphoric use, confronting in both novels the spiritual impoverishment of contemporary America while feeling his age.
The palette is alluringly exotic, but it's also expressive, with subtle shades — white, dove, slate, jet — that soon take on metaphoric resonance.
With their rich metaphoric ambiguity, gardens have served as ciphers for reflections on nature, the nation and the place of humans therein.
Life is short and messy, but the project, by virtue of its mission, consistency and narrative shape, smooths out the metaphoric wrinkles.
Within this circumscribed space, metaphoric entities appear that are impossible to imagine outside the confines of literature: vampires, magic fruit, living dolls.
Mr. Eyre turns the scene metaphoric: the entwined lovers are trapped in the crumbled ruins of walls and stairs from Amiens and Paris.
"I made myself more vulnerable and made a step away from the metaphoric," she said in a recent interview at the Bowery Hotel.
Who hasn't felt trapped in one's own life, marooned in a small town, metaphoric or otherwise, with no rail link to the capital?
"The metaphoric part is how I think about painting—there is the initially intentional, primary part, and the 'underneath' of the work," Mann explains.
In The Key, I want to take the participants into a magical realism journey through different dreams, where each detail has a metaphoric meaning.
It is a call to action for every country, every community, to start preparing for the metaphoric storms that are already on their way.
"What is the relationship between physical states, bodily wastes (even if metaphoric ones) and the horrific?" asks scholar Barbara Creed in The Monstrous-Feminine.
Since "Three Billboards" is a Hollywood movie, there is sunlight, real and metaphoric, throughout, including glimmers of that audience-pleasing essential known as Redemption.
However, it was painfully and obviously metaphoric: the throngs of "common" attendees were at the base of the hill, fenced off from the action.
It's a movie working on all levels, with metaphoric set design and lines that carry the movie's message all the way to the unexpected end.
Join for a three day series of programs, performances, installations and workshops at the Green-Wood Cemetery exploring the crossing of literal and metaphoric borders.
CIE 21 Chromaticity Diagram Wrap your mind around this for a second: a metaphoric, three-dimensional space in which any point is a specific color.
Together, these cognitively diverse teams will work together to accelerate past any metaphoric valley and build the iconic companies taking humanity to its fantastic future.
However, with a few exceptions, artworks don't spell out every last wherefore and why but instead critique things in a metaphoric, indirect, and implicit way.
The fact that the virtual, metaphoric worlds where we spend an increasing amount of our mobile time are largely devoid of touch is almost tragic.
Known for his torquing topspin and forceful forehand, Rafael Nadal showed off a different, metaphoric skill late Tuesday night at the United States Open: digestion.
The title isn't metaphoric (or not exactly), but refers to the Ochoas, who operate one of the many private ambulances that race through Mexico City.
Those they elected to contribute to the exhibition — a cactus, a tin mailbox, a retro blue armchair — sit on the brick flooring as a metaphoric reoccupation.
Act II, when Tristan and Isolde meet furtively at night, takes place here in a kind of lookout post that is part of the metaphoric ship.
The scene, photographed in lovely, woozy close-ups by Arnaud Potier, is disorienting and metaphoric, a microcosm of one culture mushrooming in the heart of another.
Like them, he wrote analogical fiction: stories that worked at many levels as they fused the literal, the metaphoric, and the philosophic into the same narrative.
After releasing Twos, not even a year after 669 he has transcended the metaphoric "glass ceiling," whereby artists are restricted to remaining a hyper-local sensation.
They have built a beautiful sports medicine center into the side of their football stadium, a placement that occupies a land between admirable and sadly metaphoric.
After raging on my metaphoric student loans, I stood in the ring with a championship belt over my head, the word "BO$$" spelled out behind me.
It's turning what seems like a simple proposition, recognizing a civil rights icon, into a complicated discussion about race and boundaries — both the metaphoric and the literal.
On the other hand, for a book project with pronounced anti-capitalist leanings, the gambling frame, however metaphoric, potentially replicates the capitalist quandaries it seeks to redress.
And I wrote a story about it, and then also of course Angels in America, which talked about that as a metaphoric issue around the AIDs crisis.
Instead, it refers to a "metaphoric representation" of "the literary Satan" found in the works of the writers John Milton, Mary Shelley, William Blake and Anatole France.
Camus was not writing about one plague in particular, nor was this narrowly, as has sometimes been suggested, a metaphoric tale about the Nazi occupation of France.
Camus was not writing about one plague in particular, nor was this narrowly, as has sometimes been suggested, a metaphoric tale about the Nazi occupation of France.
After a romantic day of sea turtle releasing (major props to the producers, because that is some adorable, metaphoric bonding time), Lauren B. confesses her love for Ben.
The moment is deeply paradoxical, its metaphoric reverberations made all the more powerful by the repetition of the practice by each of the ten men in the film.
Sometimes, off the playing field, the collisions were more metaphoric; growing up, Snake made a habit of running into trouble for the sake of rebellion, whatever its causes.
"Joker," at its core, is the story of the "forgotten man," the metaphoric displaced and disenfranchised white man whose goodwill has been abused and whose status has been reduced.
The kinetic characters in "The March of Folly" (2018) are presented like a parade, each train car pushed forward by the one behind, a metaphoric tail wagging the dog.
An arch tops this central building, and serves as a metaphoric handle by which Mountain Thunder hoped the Great Spirit would carry away the monument, following the artist's death.
And his hair is more than just his hood ornament, or at least I reserve the right to assign it as much metaphoric resonance as Clinton's was saddled with.
When I first saw your work' it reminded me of the compositional structures of early modern American paintings' which imply a layout' or a metaphoric plan' for a societal structure.
While it is a source of inspiration for artists for many different reasons, Depelchin saw it is as a metaphoric song that could be symbolically used for the Canticle exhibition.
Rock — or at least the anthemic, metaphoric, Hard Rock Cafe version of big rock — has become more socially accessible but less socially essential, synchronously shackled by its own formal limitations.
In Act III, Parsifal, who has spent years wandering and lost, returns to the sanctuary of the knights, where his spiritual transformation is completed through the metaphoric act of baptism.
The metaphoric implications of the spectacle presented in "Grey Gardens" were not lost among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of the time, who made the movie an instant classic.
I wanted to find a way of making it a bit more tactile and metaphoric than just falling into the internet, which is kind of a hard thing to perceive.
At the end, Magneto decides that destroying [metaphoric or literal representation of humankind] would be bad, and he and Xavier are cool bros again even though [take your pick] almost died.
If Khoury makes any argument, however, it is that the expression of an "unadorned truth" is impossible, since all language is symbolic and metaphoric; words are weighed down by their histories.
Along with millions of Americans, I am taking my rage and my hope with me into the voting booth and pulling the metaphoric lever towards a more just and fair democracy.
It is up to consumers of art to ensure that Nanette's contribution to the #MeToo discourse does not get put on one metaphoric shelf while abusive artists persist on another, heroism preserved.
He grasped the disruptive nature of bits more than most, a metaphoric nano-technology that would turn the already-humming information age inside out and transform daily life on nearly every continent.
That is the price -- a literal price, not a metaphoric one -- that we are willing to pay collectively as a nation to smite our perceived enemies (although it includes military fatalities, too).
"Known/Unknown: Plague Column" (1995-96) investigates cancer from a cellular level to a metaphoric one, made as Ms. Schneemann was using alternative therapies to treat breast cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
A good director could make fine interpretive use of these metaphoric riches (the book has inspired other films) or of the brittle old papers that a brittle old woman has locked away.
But it is up to consumers of art to ensure that Gadsby's contribution to the #MeToo discourse does not get put on one metaphoric shelf while abusive artists persist on another, heroism preserved.
Soon, however, the novelty of the intricate craft and the metaphoric warmth of the show's featured competitors welcomed in a sizable community of spectators — all of them hungry for that wholesome glassblowing goodness.
But Mr. Cooley and Mr. Hood's new songs, including those on the 2014 record "English Oceans," pivot more frequently from the metaphoric to specifically address flash points of the late-Obama political era.
The internet's influence on young women is put center stage in Virgin Territory, a metaphoric performance piece that examines the sexualization of young girls, set against a backdrop of cyberbullying, online predators, and selfies.
Each of his paintings has a metaphoric message of color inclusivity, but in this exhibition it becomes apparent that, formally, he has always been more about achieving precision within a full but limited range.
Of course not; it's because Arizona has made a metaphoric connection to her patient's situation and her personal problem — she needs April to tell Jackson and get the tests, but April's still not budging.
I think it delivers the sort of metaphoric euphoria that John Cheever compared to the euphoria of drink, the sort of dish you devour without much conversation but with raised eyebrows of happiness instead.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Over the past few years the Mumbai poet Ranjit Hoskote has staked out a remarkable territory somewhere between a highly metaphoric and symbolic and a playfully disjunctive language.
And while we have done our best to build a yellow brick road to our company, the yellow brick road that leads to top-tier tech actually has a metaphoric Emerald City at its end.
He argued that, because the Republican Party stopped real slavery, it is morally required to balance the budget, because it's the same as real slavery because Beck's metaphoric chains are the same as real chains.
"Using this material to play chess has a metaphoric reason, which is talking about the game of life of these desperate people coming to our shores," Michael Bakas, member of the University committee, told Mashable.
Other works in the exhibition are rich in metaphoric possibilities — among them is "Stair Share" (2019), two staircases composed of three steps each, oriented in opposite directions; a plank connects the stairs across the second step.
It acts as a metaphoric house where to feel safe and to perform the real spirit of drag surrounded by peer forces, and ultimately opens up discussions around the possibilities of performing femininity outside the cliché.
As the title of "Ghostbox Cowboy" indicates, the unpopulated metropolises built by China's government have a metaphoric affinity with this unusual movie — a scary, dryly funny dissection of entrepreneurial absurdism bleeding into existential and metaphysical despair.
Radtke may or may not have the heart condition that caused the early death of her uncle, and, as she travels to ruined sites, she explores the metaphoric link between deteriorating human hearts and collapsing buildings.
I was forced to read Robert Frost as a schoolboy and understood poetry to be metaphoric musing; Kaur's young readers want to engage with her work, and will expect a poetry of brevity and brute feeling.
It was about "blight," in a literal sense because of the health issues all poor communities face, but also (as the writer Alexis Madrigal has discussed) as a metaphoric term to cover failing infrastructure and economic collapse.
"Metaphoric phrases behaved more like concrete literal phrases in that both rapidly activated sensor-motor systems," says Vicky Lai, an assistant professor of psychology and cognitive science at The University of Arizona, and the paper's first author.
Because the predominantly white audience could walk and sit around the entire 360-degree space of the platform, they not only watched Martiel become entombed in his metaphoric prison, they also watched each other watching the spectacle.
The physical act of the journey is less important to the film than its metaphoric significance, as demonstrated by scenes of Indigenous peoples communing juxtaposed against folk songs about people venturing to the city and never coming back.
Decades older than many of the musicians and venue operators, Lynch came to fill the non-metaphoric role as the responsible adult with legal expertise when they found themselves in legal trouble for any number of minor infractions.
From the early days of Batman and Superman pushing back against fears over the rise of organized crime to Marvel's more recent metaphoric forays into intolerance and social justice, Gotham is just a new voice in the mix.
In the movie, Elizabeth and Darcy (Sam Riley, a persuasively brooding presence), sling metaphoric arrows at each other now and again, but they're so busy fighting the zombies overrunning the country that their actions invariably drown out everything else.
Berlin (CNN)When Barack Obama introduced himself to the world in 2008, he stood in the sprawling Tiergarten here, packed with Berliners waving American flags, and declared that walls — metaphoric divides of ethnicity, gender, religion, and race — were crumbling.
All due respect to Serena van der Woodsen's perfectly quaffed, glossy blonde salon waves, but Blake Lively's lived-in texture makes us want to throw our curling wand out the window of our (metaphoric) Upper East Side penthouse apartment.
Featuring masterfully arranged samplings from over 30 separate books, the work is monumental, spanning over 400 pages of poetry that, at least at the outset, does not bear any resemblance to conventional narrative forms, personal speech, or metaphoric imagery.
Since Williams is never one to stray away from making a statement, we've come to expect this type of moves (last season emphasized "girl power") though it tends to be much less metaphoric and more so a bit cheeky.
To Verginer, these lines indicate something about periodic thresholds, but given the theme and content of the show, here they suggest rising water in the most literal sense, as well as the metaphoric understanding that a watermark represents change over time.
It was ironic that Sontag, who argued strenuously against metaphoric understandings of bodily illness, would end up approaching bodily necessities and pleasures as metaphors for even deeper needs—for love and intimacy—and for the shame of being vulnerable, fallible, mortal.
" With a flourish (like that of a lighted match), the language veers into the metaphoric (the match heads are "sober and furious"), only to end with soaring lyricism and a love note: "I become the cigarette and you the match.
" And yet the end of the novel features a presumably autistic child pressed into metaphoric duty, when the same character, riding a New York City bus at dusk, watches a boy repetitively bouncing in time to "prelinguistic grunts" and "howls.
Despite receiving a placement on one of the biggest album releases of the year, what is seemingly more important to Walton is that this song is a metaphoric catalyst—a chance for his alleged new genre to be showcased to the world.
Unsurprisingly, given the comic, allusive and metaphoric potential of the pairing, Comensal makes much of an angry, dying man's mute efforts to communicate while accompanied in his final days by a loud, caged bird prone to harsh expressions and indifferent to being understood.
Each unbearably loud news item makes up what has become the United States of America's Infinite Infrastructure Week, seven enormously long days where we take a moment to calmly examine the literal and metaphoric Infrastructure of our country, in all its chaotic failure.
At Laguna Art Museum his large-scale installation, 360° Azimuth, will feature a two-channel video projection with sound in which landscape symbols become metaphoric "characters" in an animistic meta-narrative where reality and constructs of our collective subconscious seem to co-exist peacefully.
For taxi drivers staring down an even bleaker future of driverless cars at a moment when Washington considers a weekly paycheck bump of $1.50 an occasion to break out the layer cake, it is hard to see where the metaphoric Prozac will come from.
The most celebrated — and reviled — of the lot is the Princeton pathologist, Thomas Harvey (a piquantly, feverishly defensive Mr. Spector), who winds up schlepping Einstein's brain all over the place (often in the trunk of his car) and never does manage to crack its (metaphoric) contents.
"When I realized that not everyone got the same privileges of seeing themselves reflected in the most tangible and the most metaphoric senses, it became really important to me to see what I could do in sharing the resources I've had, that have made such an impact," says Shahidi.
I think this show, This Was His Body/His Body Finally His, shows what I describe as a metaphoric process of reclaiming my sense of self, as a way to emerge from the messiness of childhood and the imagines that I have encountered that have disrupted my imagination.
Nintendo's new Switch Jr. came out, one Gizmodo staffer recounts how the Area 51 raid was just as crazy as it sounded, Google contractors in Pennsylvania unionized, and a bunch of kids much more concerned with the world's literal meltdown than Washington's metaphoric one filed a landmark climate complaint.
A desert ghost flower might bloom, wither in drought or wildfire, or be devoured by caterpillars — and so might I. If home, marriage and love are metaphoric conventions, they might evoke the tree that I revisited, come summertime, to find that the parakeets had moved back in, rebuilt and reclaimed their home.
When you join all of these factors — the wide metaphoric scope of "poetry," the lack of familiarity with actual poetry or poets, the role-playing involved in the popular conception of the poet — it's not hard to see how you might get a Nobel laureate in literature who doesn't actually write poems.
Both in his elaborate show notes and backstage before a beautiful final stand-alone show of men's wear for Gucci on Monday, the label's creative director Alessandro Michele alluded to the metaphysics of journey: real travel, time travel, armchair travel, metaphoric and philosophical voyages, everything but budget trips to Las Vegas on a Greyhound bus.
The metaphoric equivalencies, between blood and money, money and Jews, coruscate from under the slander: Jews, who murdered the child of God, were punished and condemned to wander, or rather, they were forced to circulate, and so to conceal their identities, to convert or exchange their identities; in every situation, they had to remain fungible.
This is the case with Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar, with We Feel Fine, an exploration of human emotions, or Reynald Drouhin with Internet Protocol City, a generator of "ghost towns" transforming the IP addresses of Internet users into monochrome buildings, when abstract and cold data changes into the pure state of metaphoric beauty.
In recent days, Trump has been trumpeting the "humane" and "fair" approach he would take to dealing with undocumented immigrants; surrogates have been suggesting that the "big, beautiful wall" Trump promised to build along the southern border could in fact be an electronic, or "virtual" wall at certain points — maybe even a metaphoric wall, for all we knew.
I tried to write from the point of view (alien to much journalism) of a three-dimensional human being moving through a beautiful but troubled world, dragging along his own baggage, literal and metaphoric, trying to connect with the people he was writing about for this newspaper and at the same time honoring the primary relationship in his life.
Much like his protagonist, Fischer assumes a well-organized, seamless approach to his launch, setting the scene with a bright, direct visual style that feels largely informational — a lingering shot of what appears to be months' worth of food and water — and only occasionally slides into the metaphoric, as when Rike sails past a gargantuan tanker that conveys an ominous dehumanization.
Helen Molesworth reminds us in Work Ethic that we may think of strikes as calls to halt production in order to protest wages and working conditions, but they are, in a deeper sense, a powerful way of saying NO. In an artists' metaphoric strike, she explains, art making doesn't stop, but it is withheld from the art market's system of commodification and display.
The poems of this British-born US poet (son of an aristocratic Russian mother and middle-class Norwegian father) represent an amazing series of shifts of metaphoric imagination, which we might simply admire: Let's scribble on the plates of the rich something like eat the hand that pulls the plug, or let's break down houses made out of glass & look for the princess of< processed images….
Clyfford Still, "1947-21949-W No.2110" (22016), oil on canvas, 21960 21889/21955 x 20073 in, collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, gift of the artist, 22007 (© 21285 City and County of Denver / Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York; photo by Tom Loonan) (click to enlarge)Still said "the figure stands behind it all," a comment that has been discussed in both literal and metaphoric terms.

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