Sentence examples for metaphorical text from inspiring English sources

However, this context does not imply that the essential receptive structure of reading and interpreting a metaphorical text is changed.

In the context of spiritual traditions – especially of those, which are grounded on textual traditions like Holy Scriptures – the metaphorical text is a symbol for the Divine or Inspired.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say all those hours of "prophecy lessons," like the magazine, keep circling back to the same topics over and over again Israel, animal sacrifices on the Temple Mount, a world government, the Mark of the Beast, etc. Turns out, when someone tries to apply an ancient, metaphorical text to contemporary news stories there are only so many things he can say.

This twofold meaning of the reading of a text is especially relevant for metaphorical texts employed in religious and spiritual traditions.

In order to understand the character of religious and spiritual traditions, the reflection about the specific nature of metaphorical texts is of crucial importance.

Rather, instead of representing plain recipes for a better world, those metaphorical texts necessarily have to become applied by the individual reader.

We believe that metaphorical texts from spiritual traditions can empower renewed and emancipative business practices in very different areas of management.

At detriment to Evolutionism, influential politicians, large school systems and society seem willing to metaphorical supports the text of the Bible or the pseudo-scientific theories of creationism and intelligent design to be taught in schools.

The popular unease before the contrast between words and deeds could have led the journalist Alexander A. Ricardo to publish a metaphorical but accurate text in the opinion section of the Havana Tribune*.

Now, given the differences found in the incidence of metaphorical expressiveness between US Spanish texts and those produced in Mexico, it is possible that in a monolingual context the acquisition of linguistic incongruence is actually accelerated.

Such a stance demanded that every word of the Bible be perspicuous (in other words, clear and easy to understand), and at least implied that the Bible should by-and-large be taken literally, rejecting the vast literature from the Church fathers going back at least fifteen hundred years that offered numerous figurative, mythic, metaphorical and allegorical interpretations of texts.