Even without eventual practical use, it would be good if the Higgs boson had a cultural impact, by moving into the language as a metaphor, just as "light year, " "Darwinian, " "subconscious" and "in the DNA" have done.
The bill's acronym as a metaphor for the reins on a horse is fitting.
He saw the ship as a metaphor for the nation's post-war strength, pride and accomplishment.
Indeed, cannibalism continues to be read on many levels as a metaphor for Brazilian art.
Chess continues to crop up in books and movies as a metaphor for life.
The butterfly as a metaphor of transformation and rebirth has long appealed to mystics of all stripes.
The paradox of wealth without refinement remains unexamined but emerges as a metaphor for the American Dream itself.
The measure's Republican co-sponsor, Senator John Warner of Virginia, harkened back an earlier era as a metaphor for the bill.
Interpreted as a metaphor rather than a literal account of events, there is a good deal of truth in Hobbes' story.
This is fortunate for William Hague, who enjoys deploying the Dome as a metaphor for Labour's (alleged) vacuity and fiscal ineptitude.
While every word is true, it also stands as a metaphor for the influence of money in our lives, regardless of our geography.
Much has changed about man-made fabrics since John Waters used "polyester" as a metaphor for trashiness in his 1981 film by that name.
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As a metaphor for Hollywood, a giant lizard seems apt, but Mamet is perhaps being sarcastic about the Bambi side of the equation.
He does it all from the classroom via a laptop, an interactive whiteboard, and projector, bringing concepts such as "metaphor" and "simile" alive.
The phrase that someone has decided to take his ball and go home is based on an action, but usually used as a metaphor.
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The materials also serve as a metaphor for the Commission itself.
Naturally, Dalio sees this as a metaphor for how he invests.
Even the more recent New Century Evangelion, which he sees primarily as a metaphor for teenage confusion, is set in a world devastated by attacks from a mysterious alien force.
Ms Showalter does not attempt to unravel the intractable moral and legal conundrums raised by this unsettling parable, but she uses it as a metaphor to ask questions about literary judgment.
The syndication model of RSS extended as a metaphor through the Web and lives in the ubiquitous orange square (a graphical approach originally deployed in the Firefox browser) familiar to bloggers and podcasters everywhere.
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But he ends up so far from this theme that a potentially glorious scene, a sermon on water as a metaphor for love in the mission church of St Xavier del Bac, becomes an aside in a chapter about junk food and barrios.
Using a stock exchange as a metaphor, the simplest way to explain this ecosystem is, websites have unsold inventory they pass to an ad exchange, similar to a stock exchange, and advertisers utilize demand side platforms, similar to a stock broker, to purchase the inventory.
They don't intend to market the dress, but see it as a "metaphor for wastefulness, " says Ryan.
Ostensibly a show about physical accomplishment, "Splash" doubles as a crisp metaphor for celebrity itself.
Why, indeed, should so many artists have turned to the circus as a fitting metaphor for their own role in society?
Sport is so well, deeply and widely understood that it serves as a good metaphor that we believe will enable readers to internalize the conceptual points that we make.
Heavy-lidded eyes cast down, he concentrates intently on a book, with the deep, swirling folds of his enveloping red cloak serving as a visible metaphor for the cocoon of his ecstatic absorption.
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The conventional view of Thomas takes his lack of participation at oral argument as a kind of metaphor.
Or, to get back to our earlier metaphor, as if you could compress the entire city's sewage through a single ordinary water pipe.
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