In this way, New York and other major cities functioned as a metaphor for contemporary experience.
Suffice it to say that the gizmo, which only sort of works, slyly functions as a metaphor for the comic inadequacy of casual communication.
Braid is about the tragedy of time and the impermanence of memory; the time-reversal feature functions as a metaphor for loss and learning from mistakes.
Lydia Lunch, who toured with Gordon as part of a short-lived trio named Harry Crews, after the late Southern novelist, described Gordon's voice as "strangled" and suggested that it functions as a metaphor.
In Eric Cohler's fifth-floor bedroom suite, the flat screen television functions as a metaphor for the show house family that has possibly carried its fashionable multitasking too far.
In truth, Owen and Reeves were the leads, playing a brother and sister fatally attracted to each other, and whose messy relationship functions as a metaphor for the murky morals of late Thatcherite Britain.
Mr. Lampert asserts that baseball, with its vast network of people and events, fanatically kept histories and human dramas, functions as a metaphor for the life of the mind.
Inverting a dominant literary conceit, blackness and not whiteness functioned as a metaphor for hope and transcendence — a "Night coming tenderly/Black like me," as Mr. Hughes wrote, that abetted the struggle for racial equality and justice.
