And despite all the previous personal turmoil I've whipped into form with weird stone fruit metaphors, I'm grateful for Craigslist.
The stone is a metaphor for grief and for ageing and stiffening.
The most striking thing about the work is how early the Madame Grès philosophy was set in stone (an apt metaphor for her sculptural style).
❦ One can quibble with the metaphor – "Stone Age" people were much more in tune with the wholeness of the fabric of life than were the 20th-century pundits Carson was up against – but the conclusion stands.
His next book, Silex Scintillans, reveals a major Metaphysical poet: to borrow his own metaphor, the stone heart has been struck and ignited, to become the "fiery flint" that transforms suffering into creation.
Mr. Pray, whose previous documentaries include "Scratch," about hip-hop D.J.'s, and "Surfwise," tries to whip up some intellectual meringue with an extended metaphor involving ancient stone carvings and communications satellites that's best ignored.
For her Swinging Circles line — a provocative title for a bridal collection — Ms. Sonia chose a circular setting in which the stone rolls and rotates, a metaphor for a union in which the individual, though part of a couple, remains almost completely free.
"As the light source shifts, the form's structure and visual output are altered," creating something like a disco ball by-way-of stalactites, a dazzling visual metaphor for the stone strata atop which the city sits.
The landscape of the new memorial is largely inspired by imagery from the 1963 "I have a dream" speech, drawing literally on metaphors, including the "stone of hope" hewn from the "mountain of despair".
The screenplay was written by Cuarón and his son Jonás, and they have shaped Stone's floating dilemma as a metaphor for a life that's in permanent suspension.
