Mr. Delis, a trim, mustachioed man of 56 who is given to plain-spoken, off-color metaphor, was set to run this year.
The computer scientists at PARC, notably Alan Kay, also designed the Star interface to embody a metaphor: a set of small pictures, or "icons," were arranged on the screen, which was to be thought of as a virtual desktop.
Since I can't think of a third metaphor for "set aside," let's just move along to this season's penultimate Scorecard.
In bad, it gives you a moment to gird your loins, look to your troops, marshal your mental reserves, look up more metaphors and set your face against the coming foes.
As well as plundering his classical myth-kitty, technology metaphors were set up to mediate between the two: trains, which were benign and connective; and ships which were usually "other": fateful and ultimately fatal, as in Alcohol (1942): A bottle swings on a string.
Here the architect intends another metaphor; by setting the debating chamber directly above the public area, he seeks to remind MSPs whilst sitting in the chamber that their power derives from the people below them.
"You can use the drum to control," he said, stretching out into his metaphor, "or to set free".
Standard semantic theories exploit the Leibnizian metaphor of a set of all possible worlds: a proposition might or must be true if it is true in some or all possible worlds.
His literary ideas on conceptism and the art of conceited writing (writing that continually shocks the reader by the use of startling metaphor) were clearly set forth in Agudeza y arte de ingenio (1642, 2nd ed. 1648; "Subtlety and the Art of Genius").
While a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, Ekaterina Shutova, now an ICSI postdoctoral fellow, developed a system able to extract metaphors using a small set of annotated metaphors.
