In this way, New York and other major cities functioned as a metaphor for contemporary experience.
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.
Indeed, Reeves's famous Anacin ad featuring an animated hammer pounding inside one's head could function as a metaphor for both the intent and the effect of late-50's advertising in general.
Nevertheless, just like at the time of the philosophes, ingestion still functions as a metaphor for the cultural and political self.
In last year's cabinet photo, Williamson looked half a decade younger and was actively smiling, so he out of everyone here – and possibly everyone in the UK – is functioning as a sort of visual metaphor for what living life under the crushing austerity of Tory rule is actually like.
Allegory — a story that functions as an extended metaphor and has both literal and figurative meanings — is clearly not science.
Even knowledge itself, the novel's narrator suggests in the book's final, and distinctly religious, peroration, functioned as a kind of metaphor for Zafar: it was his attempt to find a home.
Aligning with these 3 pointers, three questions emerge for urban studies: (1) which metaphors have most generative power and could together function as a set of root metaphors?; (2) how can metaphors be combined to generate better insights into urban questions, and (3) which metaphors are less appreciated but could lead to meaningful understanding?
