Metaphor
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394 examples of Metaphor in a sentence
It's so easy to think of technology as a
metaphor
for memory, but our brains are not perfect storage devices like technology.
And if technology is not a
metaphor
for memory, what is it?
A
metaphor
will serve here: Where elite mathematicians and statisticians and theorists often serve as architects in the expanding realm of science, the remaining large majority of basic applied scientists, including a large portion of those who could be said to be of the first rank, are the ones who map the terrain, they scout the frontiers, they cut the pathways, they raise the buildings along the way.
But we also use a very simple metaphor, the cat and the mouse game, to describe in the past 15 years the continuing fight between Chinese censorship, government censorship, the cat, and the Chinese Internet users.
But sometimes this kind of a
metaphor
is too simple.
Taking that idiom of, as it were, the darkness of the body transferred to architecture, can you use architectural space not for living but as a metaphor, and use its systolic, diastolic smaller and larger spaces to provide a kind of firsthand somatic narrative for a journey through space, light and darkness?
Well, you can hear the implicit airplane
metaphor
in this story, but this plane is like no other, because it can never be allowed to land.
The same can be said for our social systems, for our systems of government, where, at the very least, flow offers us a helpful
metaphor
for understanding what the problem is, what's really broken, and the urgent need that we have, that we all feel today, to redesign the flow of our institutions.
If education can be likened to watering a garden, which is a fair metaphor, sadly, much of the water is evaporating before it reaches the flowers, especially for some groups, for example, those with hearing impairment.
And they use it as a
metaphor.
And they think it's a metaphor, but this is not a
metaphor.
So I'd like to conclude with a physical
metaphor.
So if I had to think of some kind of occupation as a
metaphor
for my work, I would much rather be a fisherman.
Raku is a wonderful
metaphor
for the process of creativity.
It evokes the container
metaphor
of communication, in which we conceive of ideas as objects, sentences as containers, and communication as a kind of sending.
It's very hard to find any example of abstract language that is not based on some concrete
metaphor.
(Applause ends) So I think we have to embrace a different
metaphor.
Because baseball is the dominant cultural
metaphor
that Americans use to think about and talk about sexual activity, and we know that because there's all this language in English that seems to be talking about baseball but that's really talking about sexual activity.
So the journey back to Saturn is really part of and is also a
metaphor
for a much larger human voyage to understand the interconnectedness of everything around us, and also how humans fit into that picture.
It seems like they're everyone's default doom-and-gloom
metaphor.
This brings us to the second part of our rocket metaphor: the steering.
This brings us to the third part of our rocket metaphor: the destination.
But the war metaphor, the war paradigm or model for thinking about arguments, has, I think, deforming effects on how we argue.
I think the argument-as-war
metaphor
inhibits those other kinds of resolutions to argumentation.
Well, the war
metaphor
seems to force us into saying you won, even though I'm the only one who made any cognitive gain.
The war
metaphor
forces us into thinking that you're the winner and I lost, even though I gained.
The argument-as-war
metaphor
is just ... it's a monster.
But for me it's amazing because it's a
metaphor
for the time in which we live, when human minds and machines can conquer together.
In fact, that term, David and Goliath, has entered our language as a
metaphor
for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
And this
metaphor
of membership in the greater human family is the way that children also describe the money that they invest in these sacrificial buffaloes that are thought to carry people's soul from here to the afterlife, and children will explain that they will invest the money in this because they want to repay their parents the debt for all of the years their parents spent investing and caring for them.
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