There was an element of conscious metaphorical shaping to everything Frost did.
And also their metaphorical flesh and blood.
Scholars working within the CMT framework recognize that cultural experiences shape metaphorical conceptualization and give rise to cross-linguistic variation in the choice of source domains (Yu 2003, 2008; Deignan 2003; Barcelona and Soriano 2004; Boers, Demecheleer and Eyckmans 2004; Kimmel 2004; Kövecses 2005).
This metaphorical, embodied quality shapes how we relate to abstract concepts, emotions and human activity.
At other more metaphorical moments, it takes shape as Conrad's heart of darkness.
But the passage is widely understood to be a metaphorical reference to the shape of the landscape.
While "Trouble Every Day," like "Beau Travail," is a movie in which images matter far more than words, the Melville story that inspired the earlier film lent it a shape and metaphorical resonance that the new one lacks.
The theatricality of the non-human world is drawn out as Jamie's shape-shifting, metaphorical imagination startles the mind awake through unsettling convergences.
We focus on the definition of embodiment that refers to the ways in which abstract concepts rely on metaphorical extensions of embodied schemata shaped by processes below the level of conscious awareness as explored by Lakoff and Johnson [Lakoff, G., Johnson, M., 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA].
As a conceit for a drama, an architectural derby to design the first monument on the moon carries a pleasant-to-ponder and satiric set of metaphorical implications: the attempt to give shape and substance to dreams, perhaps, or the desire to stake a claim in the universe of ideas -- grand human urges rendered tacky by the element of competition.
