Sentence examples for using the metaphor in from inspiring English sources
The detailed translation more sensitively expresses Laozi's point in using the metaphor in the context of a view of names as "cutting" things into types and Laozi's distinctive theory that such socially constructed distinctions (institutions) control us by controlling our desires.
Apparently the fact that Flaubert used the metaphor in a letter to a woman whose good opinion he wanted has distracted Wall from a considered appreciation of its potential depth and purity.
Just over a year ago, John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, used the metaphor in a tangled sort of way to suggest that the Labour Party was preparing for the post-Blair era.
It also (somewhat uncharacteristically for Chomsky) makes for a perfect sound bite; there are plenty of people who know nothing about linguistics, but have the sense that what he was talking about was "deep versus shallow"; there was an even a Nobel Prize winner, Niels Jerne, who used the metaphor in his Nobel address about language and the immune system.
Angelou used the metaphor of a bird struggling to escape its cage described in the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem "Sympathy" throughout all of her autobiographies; she used the metaphor in the titles of both I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and her sixth autobiography A Song Flung Up to Heaven.
We then use the metaphors in order to suggest different complementary ways that ICT could be taught in schools.
The video contextualizes historic racial disparity in the United States using the metaphor of a race track in which runners face different obstacles depending upon their racial background.
William develops his account of the will using the metaphor of a king in his kingdom.
Drug discovery is often described using the metaphor of finding a needle in a haystack.
What, you might wonder, is the problem in using the metaphor of war to represent a collective effort to battle and overcome some social evil?
Architect and designer William McDonough with his partner Micheal Braungart described it well, using the metaphor of the cherry tree, in the book Cradle-to-Cradle.
