Sentence examples for illuminating metaphor from inspiring English sources

Another illuminating metaphor for this kind of theorizing is Claude Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Strauss"bricolage," i.e., working by hand at odd jobs with whatever resources happen to be available within a repertoire of inherited tools and assorted bric-a-brac.

Lakoffian conceptual metaphor is only one of several modes of meaning construction posited by conceptual linguists that purport to illuminate metaphorical discourse.

The Banyan tree as a metaphor illuminates the image of the partnership between lawyers and community partners working together in solidarity to eradicate marginalization.

The metaphor of illuminating the 'black box' of biology is probably highly appropriate to describe the manner in which 'omics is shining a light on the components of natural communities.

Secondly, the charge that Camus was too ambiguous in his judgments, too unpolitical in his metaphors, illuminates not his weaknesses but his strengths.

As in modern phenomenology, consciousness for Nishida means simply that which makes manifest or, to use a visual metaphor, that which illuminates.

Novels like his are a reminder that in literature, as well as science, illuminating the intangible with a good metaphor is a powerful art.

Repeatedly switching between frames, he deftly keeps his metaphor in view, to illuminate the zigzag narrative line.

Mr. Schlesinger felt strongly that to reach the metaphor he needed to illuminate the specifics, and he worked closely with his designers to conjure the garishness of Hollywood of the 1930's.

The Friday discussion, presumably the first of many, illuminated the challenge of this ultimate soccer metaphor: how to make this sprawling continent a team.

In his historical novels - The White Castle and My Name is Red - he presents dark metaphors that illuminate the contradictions of contemporary life.