Sentence examples for dominant metaphor from inspiring English sources

It's no accident that "search" is the dominant metaphor of the Internet.

And in the piece's dominant metaphor, that wire hanger is transformed into a long divining rod.

As digital interaction spreads to an increasing number of devices, direct physical manipulation has become the dominant metaphor in HCI.

She comes out with guns blazing under her belt: the album's dominant metaphor is oral gratification as a power play.

The death of an innocent man is linked to the dominant metaphor expressed in the novel's title.

As Aaron Bady has argued in MIT's Technology Review, the language and concepts for privacy evolved in a world where "walls" were still the dominant metaphor.

In his screenplay, Robert Towne develops two dominant metaphors; the first centres on water.

In each, scientists are trying to get a better feel for their data by imagining it as a mathematical mountain range -- one of the most dominant metaphors in science.

My research aims to understand the dominant metaphors that students hold about teaching, how students' preferred metaphors predict their academic attitudes and behaviors, and whether metaphors can be used to change students' academic attitudes and behaviors in ways that promote their success.

(c.1) If we set this beside the comment quoted above that "conception in the human mind is the assimilation of beings," it is clear that "assimilating" and "measuring" are the dominant metaphors Nicholas uses to understand what we do as knowers.

The dominant metaphors of our modern culture are those of science and engineering.