The metaphor levels are at code-red on Grand Central, an overwrought, over-thought tale of leaking passions inside a nuclear power plant.
In this metaphor, 'sea level' represents the upper level of genetic differentiation possible via neutral processes.
This is not – if you'll forgive a sporting metaphor here – a level playing field.
On this free jazz touchstone, Sun Ra took his alien metaphor to another level (or another stratosphere?) and immortalised the four-word phrase that has been regurgitated, misquoted and clung to by myriad artists, musicians and thinkers ever since.
To use a metaphor, at this level, the Chinese nation will be like a large, beautiful garden made up of one hundred different kinds of flowers.
The Greenbrier, a luxury resort, worked as a metaphor on several levels, because it is the site of a bomb shelter to house members of Congress in a nuclear war.
In fact, one of the most important findings coming out of cognitive science in the past 25 years is that most human thought operates through metaphors at a level that is out of normal conscious awareness.
Attention metaphor police: the alert level has been raised to red.
On the level of metaphor, it depicts Promethean Man in revolt against the Almighty.
But it could work powerfully on the level of metaphor, the plane on which art museums and their contents communicate.
