Sentence examples for Present metaphor from inspiring English sources

The present "metaphor", in designer-speak, of a desktop surface was Apple's key commercial breakthrough that launched the PC era in 1984.

Analysis of the interviews confirmed many of the social needs identified in previous work in this area as well as the value of the present metaphor and its ability to support playful use that enhances subsequent conversations using synchronous media.

To reinforce the present metaphor the design deliberately confounds common assumptions made about electronic devices in that the present having been sent is no longer accessible to the sender and is delayed so that it arrives at the local time that it was recorded.

"One of the things painting does well, as an art form, is present metaphor.

Always jog three miles a day, but don't avoid letting others see you! Make sure you have a complicated answer when someone says, "What's up?": "Oh I'm just graphing the square millimeters this tree has grown over the past three years in my head!" or "Thinking about hotels as post present metaphors!".

As an ever-present metaphor for human endeavour, I fear they would slowly drive me mad.

Vaenius's Amorum Emblemata presented metaphors from Ovid and other Latin erotic poets with pictorial representation.

In 1985 Pinter stated that whereas his earlier plays presented metaphors for power and powerlessness, the later ones present literal realities of power and its abuse.

This Wellek and Warren refuse, instead arguing that "the meaning and function of literature [i]s centrally present in metaphor and myth".

The materials and task in Experiment 5 were identical to those of Experiment 4 except, instead of presenting the metaphor frame at the beginning of the report, we presented the metaphor frame at the end of the report, as shown below.

The films suggest the relentlessness of everyday life along with its beauty but also present oblique metaphors for art-making.