Sentence examples for material and metaphor from inspiring English sources

Junk predominates as both material and metaphor.

It reminds us that architecture arises from the ecotone between material and metaphor.

He is uniting material and metaphor with each turn of the screw.

The fabric has settled between the slabs like a ghost sinking into the earth, creating an uncanny collusion of language, material and metaphor.

(The first show, under way before the new leadership, was "Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art," in 2007. The third, "Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa," is to open next spring).

That's almost the case in his latest solo show, at Clifton Benevento, where the primary material and the key metaphor never quite connect.

Textual material was submitted to narrative and metaphor analysis.

The Technology Revolution This flowering use of science as narrative material and scientific concepts as metaphors for the stage is worth remarking on for several reasons.

Thirty-two yeafterfter Mr. Cosby told Playboy, "There's a tremendous gap between where I used to live and where I am now," Mr. Rock has taken the same material and used it as a metaphor for where he came from and what he has become.

"We talked [during the keynote] about [how] material is the metaphor, and there were actually two metaphors that guided us in terms of thinking about how we could design specifically for high-density displays with touchscreens".

Each piece benefited from his profound grasp of materials, of metaphor and of his own emotional state.