That provides part of its advantage over big competitors, including YC, which McClure, whose metaphor-making ability may have been impacted by the Harambe debacle, called "the big gorilla on the hill".
Students learn to analyze ways in which such universals participate in the production and reception of narrative literature and film, whose metaphors can mediate the anxiety we may have about being animals.
With Scrooge's change of heart, though, Tim was appropriated for the reformed miser's "text," whose "guiding metaphor" was that Tim was a "changeling" whom Scrooge would restore to his proper, higher place in society.
But she did enlist the band for "Ghost," the album's lead single, whose core metaphor comes with a twist: though it begins by addressing a phantom ex-lover, its first-person narrator is the ghost, "Haunting these halls/Climbing up walls that I never knew were there".
His idea was that the Catholic Church was the oldest successful corporation in the world, and he predicted that the legacy of John XXIII, whose famous metaphor for the Second Vatican Council was throwing open the windows of the Church of Rome and letting in fresh air, would prove to be, corporately speaking, inconvenient.
Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani called "California King Bed" a "slushy acoustic ballad whose clever metaphor is all but suffocated beneath the song's cheesy production choices" Andy Gill of The Independent, gave a positive review for the song saying that it contained Rihanna's best vocal performance to date.
Not so for "Brokeback," whose watery metaphors benefit from a more monumental presentation.
As a young girl she saw the Bible "as a book of spells, one whose extravagant metaphors, whose terrible and powerful parables were ways to call God down to earth".
She brought a similar compassion and tragic awareness to Bruce Springsteen's "River," whose transfixing central metaphor is a stream that dries up along with a shotgun marriage.
