The novel reenacts the operations of imagination and memory, conscious and unconscious, as they join the stimulus of sense impressions to metaphor and image and to the rhythms and associations of syntax.
The area seemed an apt metaphor for my impression of San Francisco: slow-moving and lost.
The summer always passes too rapidly, & I have been thinking that a vacation, with its concentration of compelling impressions, can become a disquieting metaphor for mortality itself...."....
Hitchens, like Sontag, also wrote to correct false impressions, cultural delusions, false metaphors and truisms about "battling cancer" and "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
But in recent weeks, Mr. Bunning has shown no sign of stepping aside and delivered a string of incendiary pronouncements that have fed an impression that he is, to go with a baseball metaphor, a bit of a screwball.
Analogy and metaphor have long received attention as a mechanism by which sensorimotor impressions derived from experience help structure more abstract reasoning (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999; for a review see Jamrozik et al., 2016).
Critics praised the film's hard line look at racism and Fuller's use of melodrama and metaphors to present his argument, and its somewhat disheartening ending that leaves the impression that while racism is learned, it cannot be cured.
But I will do the best impression I can of Robert Courtine's sonorous style of assessment and boldly unleash a raft of exotic metaphor.
It was fashion as metaphor: At age 80, Moreno has let go of the need to make a certain impression.
"In an interview, the perfect metaphor comes to you but you don't want to use it because it'll give the wrong impression.
