Sentence examples for metaphor represents from inspiring English sources

In this article, the onion metaphor represents a particular approach to video data, where the process of 'peeling back layers' simultaneously is an act of bringing together the layers.

The Panopticon metaphor represents the omnipresent nature of being watched and monitored.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas described the area as a "River of Grass" in 1947, though that metaphor represents only a portion of the system.

But he was a recurring metaphor, representing for Ms. Best someone who is at ease with himself.

When Joe Manchin, and those who have followed his lead, embraced what he described as the "metaphor," what, precisely, was their metaphor representing?

Jennings and McDougal (2007) suggested the term 'motherhood' as a metaphor representing the household/family context.

The five mountains in the metaphor represent the five clusters of challenges in the future of learning that need to be resolved in the following years or decades.

On the more abstract level the intervention – when understood as a breathing space – can serve as a metaphor representing their experiences of the course as both a safe place, as described above, and a space for reflection.

But Paul Greengrass's "United 93" and Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center," rather than digging for meanings and metaphors, represent a return to the literal.

They are often full of metaphors representing components of your persona that are asking for your attention.

Linguistic symbolism generally is metaphorical; the allegory, a particular development of the metaphor, symbolically represents an idea by means of a coherent complex of metaphors.