Sentence examples for the visual metaphor from inspiring English sources

Take the visual metaphor of a tree as shelter.

Intriguingly, while most of us would say that we can just see these things, Wittgenstein reversed the visual metaphor.

That's the free fall, the famous dolly zoom in the tower staircase, in which he's caught; it's the visual metaphor that captures man's fate.

In one sense the visual metaphor was appropriate; even when voices and instruments formed dense, teeming ensembles, every contribution still registered distinctly — less a matter of isolation than one of style.

Moreover, Yannicopoulou [44] has examined the visual metaphor of emotions through the voice volume and letter size analogy.

Does Cover Flow work for browsing the Web? Increasingly, I've been seeing Flash-based Websites adopt the visual metaphor of Apple's iTunes Cover Flow as a navigational tool to quickly flip through Web pages (instead of album covers).

Scientific and technical terms were analysed from dictionaries, databases and research papers by selecting those with a metaphorical basis; then, they were classified according to the type of metaphor they embody, establishing the conceptual metaphors underlying the metaphorical expressions, and the image schemas involved in the visual metaphors.

Though many references remain arcane, the visual metaphors and political points are clear.

Unlike most theorists of digital culture, Anne Friedberg brings a deeply historical perspective to the visual metaphors of our wired world.

According to Lana, substantial revisions by a hired writer removed "all the subtext, the visual metaphors... the idea that within our world there are moral pocket universes that operate differently".

Receiving its world premiere in Berlin ahead of going on release in the UK this weekend, Sam Taylor-Johnson's film opens, predictably, with an image of grey clouds of different hues - and the visual metaphors stay obvious.