Sentence examples for metaphor based from inspiring English sources

First, its visual form draws upon two representational motifs, affinity maps and evolutionary trees, though it combines these elements in a novel map-based visual metaphor based upon shared descent.

And Rehnquist observed that " 'the wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based upon bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging.

Interaction and input metaphor based on the desired information density, e.g. bubble diagrams and room volume.

Move Your Money is a humorous, 3D inflatable metaphor — based on children's bouncy inflatable castles — to make international monetary flows tangible.

AC comes from a biological metaphor based on the self-regulating capabilities of the autonomic nervous system in the human body.

The entailments of the TIGER metaphor based on the blending of the power domain and the heroism domain profile the anti-corruption campaign as an extraordinary undertaking of heroism against harmful and destructive forces.

Theodor Adorno, in his book on Mahler, devised a set of metaphors based on the bourgeois novel; Sibelius is better served by metaphors from film.

The semantic model suggests 13 types of ideational metaphors based on elemental semantic categories.

Instead of designing interfaces around anachronistic metaphors based on office desktops in the 1980s or within the constraints of a ~5-inch screen, HoloLens apps can be as literal as they need to be, from simple projections of something on your PC monitor to a reminders screen that takes up an entire wall so that you absolutely can't miss it.

As Taverniers, Miriam (2002 10 111) explains, grammatical metaphor "is based on an 'alternative realization' of a meaning which can also be expressed congruently".

The point of a joke or metaphor is based on and made possible by appropriate assignments of literal meanings to the words and phrases that go to make up an utterance based on and made possible by an appropriate literal construal of the utterance.