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Television was the medium and the metaphor of Doctor Who.

"The metaphor was about seeing and being seen, voyeurism and exhibitionism and the metaphor of a mirror," Mr. Tompkins said.

And the metaphor of baseball as religion, in Dr. Sexton's hands, is a long way from the cornball claptrap about stadiums being "green cathedrals".

The selections touched on themes explored in the opera, like the power of dreams for a better future and the metaphor of the tree of knowledge.

Many political observers have the sense that something has gone awry in American politics, and the metaphor of extreme elites spurning a moderate public is understandably appealing.

Refuse dumps have frequently been located at the outskirts of the city, and the metaphor of 'wasteland' has been used to depict landscapes at the urban fringe.

It proposes and explores the metaphor of metacompilation, and provides the beginnings of a programming methodology for exploiting it.

Here Nicholas introduces another central metaphor to capture the relationship between God and creatures, the metaphor of enfolding and unfolding (complicatio/explicatio).

But "Breaking Bad" is at times weighed down by its ideas, and by the metaphor of chemistry for getting at life's existential conundrums.

The Democrats claimed that tests discriminate against minorities and, in the metaphor of the day, "weighing a sheep won't make it grow".

His eclectic use of pagan mythology, Christian scripture, and the metaphors of eating and digestion in defense of his position are probed.