Apart from the problematic metaphor, this might seem an almost unbelievable turn of good luck.
Amputation, especially when it's self-imposed, is a loaded and problematic metaphor.
By striving so effortfully to turn the Brooklyn Bridge into a religious symbol, Crane forces us to recognize that all he has really created is a vague and problematic metaphor.
If Gross is right, then the problematic metaphors did not affect scientists' work in the ways suggested by Martin (though they do seem to have affected popular writing on the subject).
Maintaining faulty stereotypes or problematic metaphors that indicate autistics are not whole, or seen as useless to some — fracture and displace a community that is in more need of acceptance than awareness.
It seemed an apt metaphor for the problematic marriage that both the West and Russia have made with Mr. Putin.
The reality of scientific practice is that selection, mutation and drift are not basic principles with universally agreed implications, but complex concepts freighted with history and metaphor, whose implications are disputed and problematic.
This persistence of the tree of life model could partly be explained by the fact that it is difficult to fully dislodge an old problematic model without replacing it with a better guiding metaphor.
Based on such metaphors migration itself seems to be something problematic, because it involves the circumscription that people basically are understood as naturally resident in certain places, certain related communities, sharing certain values [4].
Nevertheless, neo-hegelian organic metaphors and notions of negation and conflict, reinterpreted as the problematic situation, remain central to their positions.
Such evolution in contexts has not been un-problematic, and has led some authors to call for a reexamination of the metaphor (Pea, 2004; Puntambekar & Hübscher, 2005; Stone, 1998).
