No hemming, no hawing, no hiding true meaning behind jargon and metaphor.
Ferry has always been attuned to the mystery and metaphor of dancing.
Maybe I have spent too much time in post- linguistic turn academia, but the importance of language in general, and definition and metaphor more specifically, is not exactly a new or particularly controversial position.
In 1997, many lovers of the game, myself included, were convinced that if the computer were to win, the great romance, mystery and living metaphor of chess would disappear and people would stop caring about the game.
What could have been merely a silly send-up manages to be a meditation on marriage and a metaphor for the fragility of fortunes, big and small.
The instant-on and touch metaphor makes it very easy to get information you want.
And the metaphor is apt because the trigger -- well-designed triggers create a huge incentive for Congress not to pull them.
And fans eat subtle significance with a spoon, arguing metaphor and symbol across forums with grad student fervor and elementary school abandon.
He does it all from the classroom via a laptop, an interactive whiteboard, and projector, bringing concepts such as "metaphor" and "simile" alive.
But at the very least it will finally put the "stick" in the proverbial carrot-and-stick metaphor for taming Pyongyang.
Sociologists, psychologists, rhetoricians, linguists, and historians of science have all noted the importance of language, metaphor, and definition to our very understanding of the world around us.
Ms Faludi's sense of drama and feel for metaphor, which serve so well when she tells a human story, let her down badly when trying to control this conceptual battlefield.
Information design gurus have tried for years, mostly unsuccessfully, to help users organize their data in a better way than the file-and-folder metaphor dreamed up at Xerox PARC in the 1970s.
The earth had not completed a full rotation after my article ( Aubrey And The Sex Metaphor) this past Sunday when on Monday morning Chesapeake announced the imminent resignation of four members of the board of directors.
And what humanists, social scientists, natural scientists, and military professionals too are all learning is that our use of language, metaphor, and definition shapes our understanding of the problems we seek to solve, opening some possible options for solutions while simultaneously closing off others.
"Trains have so long symbolized hope, freedom and power -- what better metaphor could there be to represent our struggle and our assimilation into mainstream American life, " West said.
Chess continues to crop up in books and movies as a metaphor for life.
When we think of our entitlement programs, like Social Security and Medicare, the metaphor is how many people we have pulling the wagon versus how many are riding in the wagon.
For example, running the same distance now uses less energy because your legs are carrying less of you: an over-sized SUV uses lots more gas than a sedan (and please excuse the metaphor).
" However, speaking at a March conference in San Francisco, Howard Schmidt, Obama's recently appointed cybersecurity czar, said that "there is no cyberwar, " adding that it is "a terrible metaphor" and a "terrible concept.
In her magnificent (and prescient) book The Forgotten Man Amity Shlaes creates a useful metaphor that is easy to grasp and explains a lot.
And to extend that hockey metaphor, it was a day with a lot of end-to-end play.
The butterfly as a metaphor of transformation and rebirth has long appealed to mystics of all stripes.
By then, the game had changed character and become an allegory of society and, increasingly, a metaphor of love.
So clearly the metaphor of slavery and the plantation is troubling in this country just because of our history.
Its original proposition was simple: free home pages, organized in thematic neighborhoods, using a geographic metaphor of streets and houses.
First, and most obvious, a metaphor at least a good one can help teach people you are hoping to recruit for a movement.
The Conservatives' Angela Burns, is never short of a metaphor or two and the shadow education minister is no fan of the Labour government's policy on student fees.
His last two movies: Unstoppable and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 both involved trains and trains were a good metaphor for the kind of filmmaking Scott did.
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