Sentence examples for metaphor and performance from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it was the way it remained couched in metaphor and performance, giving gay men coming out in the TRL age a taste of role-playing as key to one's identity and central to one's pop music tastes.

Perhaps it was the way it remained couched in metaphor and performance, giving gay men coming out in the TRL age a taste of role-playing as key to one's identity and central to one's pop music tastes.

They make use of metaphors and performance devices taken from oral folk poetry and death laments which react on the migrations to fix them in the memory of the community.

Mohamed Ben Attia's Inhebbek Hedi (I Love You Hedi) is another of those important films that can help explain, through metaphors and wonderful performances, the story of Tunisia and the Arab Spring.

"The VHS film used in the installation and performance is a metaphor for this relationship and exposure of information".

(Chinen) 'SUBWAY MOON' (Wednesday) This multimedia suite, composed by the saxophonist Roy Nathanson, explores the subway as a meeting place and a metaphor (its performance here commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority).

Sequent has also played with the speed and performance of a dragster as a metaphor for the computer servers it sells to large corporations.

Most people would probably assume that Karen Finley, the fifty-three-year-old monologuist and performance artist, isn't much given to metaphor, but they'd be wrong.

It's a visual interface and performance tool that uses… I really can't tell what sort of visual metaphor for controlling the various aspects of your music.

This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth century to the present.

The heuristic is inspired by the metaphor of performance that Erving Goffman uses to understand everyday, face-to-face interactions.