Responding to the dire situation, Weng Xinyu, founder of YUUE, has repurposed the white hazmat suit with blue ribbons using a chair and a vase — creating a vivid metaphor that silently comments on the country’s absurd reality in the form of design.
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Science and metaphor have always maintained a busy two-way trade: think, perhaps, of the dream-image of the snake biting its tail that led August Kekulé to the structure of the benzene ring in 1865, or of the ‘tangled bank’ that illustrates the emergence of complex and interdependent life from fundamental laws of variation and inheritance in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859).
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"I think, in a way, there’s almost a metaphor there [in the music] for the show.
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“It’s a metaphor for life.
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“This passage from living my life as a spectator of the world, in the wrong body and identity, and slowly becoming myself and an artist, going from somebody who, like Casey in World’s Fair, spends all of her time staring at a screen, to somebody who is, in some ways, entering the screen — that is, to me, a really potent metaphor for transition and how it’s felt,” Schoenbrun explains.
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Add another 1,500 words, a few dozen em-dashes (those “—” characters I liberally sprinkle in my columns), a pop culture reference from at least two decades ago, some paragraph-length run on sentences, then shoehorn in a too-clever-by-half metaphor or two and nobody will know the difference.
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The turkey metaphor is exquisitely and even painfully fitting, if we consider tennis a series of utensils.
Source: Tennis Magazine
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Fighting as a metaphor
My first fight was my most memorable.
Source: Big12Sports.com
Such engaged modalities need to incorporate beauty and metaphor in order to have the power of art for political purposes.
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Still, he wasn't an alien or a ghost or a metaphor for some societal issue that needed resolving, so the rules remain technically unbroken.
Source: /Film
Because it’s all just kind of a captured metaphor at the end of day anyway, some kind of grace fulfillment.
Source: Deadline
Could that be a metaphor for how we live together and work together?” she said.
Source: WWBT
Ted Cruz and his co-host Michael Knowles were recording a live episode of the podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz when the Texas Republican coined a colorful metaphor to describe Beto O’Rourke’s base.
Source: Brookings Institution
The section ‘From Rubble to Smartphones’ includes Kyungah Ham’s needlework installation of a fallen chandelier, What you see is the unseen /Chandeliers for Five Cities (2015), a metaphor for the cold-war division of the peninsula.
Source: Le Monde diplomatique English edition
A year after Floyd’s funeral, Sharpton returned to the family to lead a prayer after Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction, and for once, he didn’t have to lead with bluster or fury — the lion from his metaphor allowing its roar to evoke eloquently measured hope, even if the hunted’s story was far from over.
Source: Los Angeles Times
“It kind of feels like a nice metaphor for sharing your story with others and letting others hold you and participate in your healing with you.
Source: Maryland Today
(After all, “Westworld” had already worked through this idea in futuristic-metaphor form, one season too many.
Source: Variety
The metaphor continues: “Needless to say I lowered off to check if any icing was taken off the cake.
Source: Climbing Climbing Magazine
He returns to the metaphor throughout our conversation.
Source: HuffPost
Adam Serwer: Is democracy constitutional?Making a firm prediction on how the Court might rule in Moore based on oral argument alone would be a mistake: Legal scholars and reporters tend to refer to the practice of guessing how the justices will vote following an argument as “reading the tea leaves,” and as the metaphor suggests, this method of prediction isn’t particularly precise.
Source: The Atlantic
She also examines Indecent Desires thematically, and since she sees it as a potent metaphor for gender dysphoria, she says that it speaks to her as a trans woman.
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It’s far more content with being a metaphor of itself.
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All of that just layers more and more metaphor onto a play that needs to have them sliced through and cut away.
Source: New York Daily News
Salman Rushdie in Midnight’s Children uses the metaphor of pickling to describe how history is preserved.
Source: The Guardian
Shot in stark black and white – by cinematographer Michele D’Attansio – it’s a (slightly unsubtle) metaphor for the values held by the protagonists and looks really slick on screen, but unfortunately, it doesn’t quite save the film from its lofty but unfulfilled ambitions.
Source: Loud And Clear Reviews
It's not a fossil fuel, but it's an obvious metaphor for gas and oil and how the desire for it is hurting or literally killing our planet.
Source: Strange World (2022) | The-m-report | wboc.com WBOC TV 16
The island was surrounded by water lilies, and I started to see the metaphor for strength in the flower.
Source: Revolver Magazine
The film, featuring quiet scares that leave marks on the brain, is in many ways a metaphor for grief and accepting death as an essential part of life.
Source: /Film
My original pitch document metaphor -- me and Al's pitch document; we did both work on this bit -- is "Year +10: a Petri dish experiment.
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It’s King’s metaphor for how adults quickly forget what it’s like to be young.
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That was also very telling as a metaphor for the country and not just the country, but in general, how difficult it is for us to allow our illusions to die.
Source: The Guardian
Turner painting as a metaphor for the tempestuous impulses of burgeoning queer sexuality being only one of the most obvious examples — that tends to distance us from the human authenticity of the situation rather than illuminate it for us.
Source: Los Angeles Blade
Is that a true story? Is that something that really happened? Or is that a metaphor of some kind?That’s not at my kids’ school, no.
Source: The Daily Beast
After eight decades, I’ve come to recognize the garden as a metaphor for life — or maybe the other way around, come to think of it.
Source: Joplin Globe
As the metaphor suggests, though, the prospect of a capability overhang isn’t necessarily good news.
Source: The Verge
What’s the metaphor to blaze into your mind?
The phrase “A rising tide raises all ships” sometimes elicits a response: “What about those who don’t have boats?”
A better phrase that I’ll never forget came from Dionne Joyner-Weems, chief energy officer of Audacity Group: “If one section of our city is struggling, if one section of our region is standing still, then sooner or later low tides drop all ships.
Source: Technical.ly
Understand the customers’ state
Consider the driving metaphor again.
Source: VentureBeat
Jacobs-Carnahan views the process as a metaphor for participatory government.
Source: vtdigger.org
Or perhaps a more accurate metaphor might be helping to lift a giant beam up above us, alongside hundreds of thousands of others.
Source: Labor Notes
Their work stands as a metaphor for the huge task that bringing healing to the city’s human residents might be, too.
Source: Vox.com
Though technically not at all about any parasites, it's the parasitic metaphor that really strikes hard as a low-income family slowly infiltrates a wealthy family, living off them like ticks on a dog.
Source: TV Guide
) Over the same period, effective leadership has undergone a rethink similar to Ironman itself, a shift from the original metaphor — unbending, unstoppable, indestructible — to a kind of radical mind-body balance, the seemingly paradoxical notion that the right kind of not working holds the key to improving your work.
Source: The New York Times
In many ways, the relationship at the center of “The Patient” is a metaphor for both the lengths Jews will go to extend empathy toward their oppressors and for the existential toll that takes.
Source: The New York Times
“With infinite outcomes, the story of Phillip Jeffries becomes a perfect metaphor for the story as a whole.
Source: 25YearsLaterSite.com
But for some users, the Mac’s windowing metaphor has led to confusion and frustration, whether it’s windows covering other windows or hidden or minimized windows being unfindable.
Source: Six Colors
This is surely a metaphor for the place of ordinary people within the vastness of the universe and 2.
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And guess what happens right then? The Bulldogs deposit the game-winner in the goal, which is a metaphor for something, and that something is S-E-X baby! But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.
Source: Decider
Writer/director Sam Mendes opens his latest feature, Empire of Light, with a delicately shot detour of the titular cozy movie theater, emphasizing a sign preaching finding the light within the darkness, presumably a metaphor for the magic and happiness a trip to the movies can bring.
Source: Movie Review Flickering Myth
They served as a trigger for his memories and as a metaphor for disappearance and loss, but also as a stimulus for his own search for enlightenment and understanding.
Source: Royal Meteorological Society
If Nuna is, as Virelles puts it, "a metaphor for the piano as an ancient instrument," it's also the work of an artist peering past the visible horizon.
Source: KNPR
The extended metaphor working through the movie might not resonate amid all the bloody cannibalism.
Source: Newnan Times-Herald
I belong to the second lot, the ‘process knitters’-to me knitting is a metaphor for life.
Source: Gulf News
Building a campus for fruit breeding is not only a practical move for International Fruit Genetics (IFG), it’s an appropriate metaphor for what’s happening in the world of fruit breeding: More fruit varieties are being developed in the private sector.
Source: Growing Produce
The lyrics are as pretty as the flowers he’s singing about, using the orchid as a metaphor for the woman who captured his heart, easily making for one of Gilley’s best.
Source: American Songwriter
Meanwhile, the Compass pattern is an homage to the family’s move to Texas and what she calls “a metaphor for the love and trust I put in my husband to take us there.
Source: Architectural Digest
I wandered past Gagosian artist and American filmmaker Harmony Korine—who used to have a once-in-a-generation talent for portraying poor people as the most interesting people you’ll never meet—out to look at the knife-edge pool, a design popular for creating a perfect mirror reflection, a metaphor too rich for me.
Source: Artforum
Lastly, “Happy Days” is another potential background song to a Hallmark romcom, though this track oddly doubles as an ode to Marvin Gaye (“You’re the Man) of all people, referencing him by name in the chorus as a metaphor for sex (the BBs say they’ve “got it going on,” like the Gaye song).
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Is this a metaphor for the show itself?
It’s not until Part 6 that the original stoplight from the pilot properly returns, and there’s this holy sh*t moment, it changes from yellow to red, and Redditor kaleviko points out that in the very next scene when Cooper is working on his case files, his pencil changes from yellow to red due to a continuity error.
Source: 25YearsLaterSite.com
Songwriter Carol Hall used a metaphor about the candy as the theme for a song about the bittersweet nature of life.
Source: Yahoo Entertainment
Cannibalism here is largely used as a metaphor, about being the kind of person who doesn't fit in properly to society and gravitates towards the small handful of people you meet in the rural, conservative-ish parts of the United States who have your same kind of not-fitting-in qualities - it's walking right up to knocking on the door of queer allegory while not quite limiting itself to that reading.
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A fresh batch of new Harvestella info has just appeared in Square Enix's vegetable patch (have we milked this metaphor enough for you yet?).
Source: Screen Rant
The chaotic scene was a kind of metaphor for the troubled production itself.
Source: Mentalfloss
It is a metaphor for AI itself – for Collishaw is no techno-utopian.
Source: The Guardian
“We thought in the [writers’] meeting, ‘Let’s find the right metaphor,’” Lipman said.
Source: Jewish Journal
“I see this as a metaphor for the kind of criticism I do.
Source: The Voice
In Cattleya gigas, Kahlo had found a vivid metaphor for life and death, renewal and decay.
Source: Literary Hub
It’s the song “Peaches,” which is a sex metaphor about eating peaches.
Source: The Atlantic
This prompts Luna, who has a space metaphor ready for every occasion, to muse about the life cycles of stars, which change form over time.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Or to keep consistent with the metaphor of the glass onion – something that seems to have a lot of layers or is intensely complex, but you can see right through to the center, rendering those layers as meaningless or unimportant.
Source: HealthPayerIntelligence.com
If we look deeper, fans have long thought the song was a metaphor for all those flittering hormones that come along with being a teenager.
Source: GameRant
How might violent sexual abuse feel to a young girl? I think a nuclear explosion is an appropriate metaphor.
Source: 25YearsLaterSite.com
This expanding universe underlines just how intentionally Pandora has been designed to be a metaphor for Earth.
Source: The Walt Disney Company
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This is my 39th season covering the NFL, and one thing that I’ve never liked is making one play a metaphor for an entire game.
Source: ProFootballTalk NBC Sports
Perhaps this story – shambolic, muddled and somewhat anarchic, but dense with atmosphere – functions as a metaphor for numbness, and how it encroaches upon us like twilight unto darkness.
Source: Screen Rant
A Post-humous inspiration for an almost intolerable number of things, arguably including the iceberg metaphor used by every psych major in the world, the most well-known thing to come out of the “Unsinkable Ship” alive has to be the pop culture phenomenon The Titanic.
Source: EWN
(Captain Planet Foundation) "I think Captain Planet, the superhero of itself, is a metaphor for ‘by our powers combined’ in understanding that the power is yours," Okunowo said.
Source: FOX 29 Philadelphia
Along with Tanya — who aims to imitate Vitti but is instead brutally compared, by a tactless hotel manager, to Peppa Pig — she offers a metaphor for how thoroughly we can give ourselves over to imposture.
Source: The New York Times
The metaphor throughout is that it's a movie about how people deal with grief, trauma, and addiction.
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“At times, the imagery had a lot of metaphor in it, but also didn’t have enough to make a true arc and take things where we wanted to take them, in terms of mischief and things you’ve never seen before, especially on ancient paintings.
Source: Vanity Fair
“Maverick” works as a metaphor for that, too.
Source: The New York Times
The stage design has all the set pieces suspended by wires and flying in and out during scene changes, a rather heavy-handed metaphor that the characters’ lives are hanging by a thread.
Source: artsfuse.org
He is the embodiment of the Kaizen growth mindset and sandcastle metaphor respectively preached by executive Brad Stevens and head coach Joe Mazzulla.
Source: Yahoo Sports
The metaphor isn’t subtle, and the film’s tone is overtly nostalgic, but because Colman’s character is anything but typical, Mendes punctures his own sentimentality before it can become overbearing.
Source: Columbus Underground
Lastly, the whole appearance of the sex doll, with its US characteristics and clothes, and oversized boobs, and the way it impacts local society and the two protagonists, could be perceived as a metaphor for the role of the US in the area.
Source: Asian Movie Pulse
The color red is used to striking effect throughout the film, acting as a visual metaphor for vitality and passion.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
It also seemed to be a metaphor for my local government law practice.
Source: The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Jesse Jackson even referred to the craft in a famous speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention -- a metaphor he revisited in his famed 1988 "patchwork quilt" address -- describing America as a quilt of "many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Source: CNN
In an infamous scene between Willy Loman and his boss in which Willy is begging to get off the road, a cigarette lighter becomes a metaphor for the degradation and humiliation the salesman experiences.
Source: NOLA.com
Simply a cheerful extended metaphor over an updated take on the club-oriented R&B of a couple of decades ago, finished off with a tasteful Jersey club breakdown.
Source: The New York Times
I will defend to the death the Elvis of the ‘70s, rising up in his great suffering and self-destructing in a perfect metaphor of rock & roll.
Source: EL PAÍS USA
(Ooh, it’s almost like a metaphor telling us Stephen might be able to heal Hilary’s broken spirit.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
More than one freshman invoked the well-worn “drinking from a firehose” metaphor to describe the flood of information coming at them during orientation — on everything from how to set up an office to following House ethics rules.
Source: The Dallas Morning News
— Sarah LaskowGraywolf PressIn the Dream House, by Carmen Maria MachadoTo borrow the architectural metaphor that animates In the Dream House, this isn’t a memoir you read so much as one that you wander through, room by room.
Source: The Atlantic
Yardscaping as a metaphor for reporting and writing
Puns that make a point
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Journalism lessons from crafting beer
But…here’s what I like about blackberries: They are persistent.
Source: Nieman Storyboard
I’m thinking of the metaphor of braiding here, because neither is subordinated to the other.
Source: The New Yorker
Many pieces coming together to form one is a metaphor that became a framework for “In America: A Lexicon of Style.
Source: Vogue
In order to bring this sculpture into the gallery, the jasmine bush was displaced, therefore causing root shock, a metaphor of migration and diaspora.
Source: AOL
When you watch the moon cover Mars on the night of December 7, you will see a metaphor for our future in space.
Source: Scientific American
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