To build on a metaphor used by Eric Green, the head of the National Human Genome Research Institute, this is like a map of a coastline drawn by an explorer who has not made landfall.
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The instant-on and touch metaphor makes it very easy to get information you want.
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.
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.
Indeed, cannibalism continues to be read on many levels as a metaphor for Brazilian art.
As they describe the situation, they usually fall back on some sort of illness metaphor.
The bill's acronym as a metaphor for the reins on a horse is fitting.
Indeed, at his confirmation hearing, McCaffrey said that the metaphor of a war on drugs was inadequate - too militaristic and macho.
So when he had the opportunity to create the MMO, Marvel Heroes, he leapt on it faster than a speeding mixed metaphor.
The entire debate over the terminology might look to a marketing practitioner like an Ivory Tower nitpicking but it is an important one because metaphor-based terms rely on our understanding of the underlying concepts to guide our actions.
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.
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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Coming up on Week 3 of the 2010 NFL season the metaphor might be more closely aligned with the game getting ready to enter the 4th quarter.
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To extend the dating metaphor, it would be like pulling a gun on someone who asks you out.
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It's a beautiful metaphor - whenever the mother puts the cold cream on, but she loses that, she misses it.
To alter the metaphor, it was rather like an Olympic athlete on steroids: basically impressive, but made to look even more so by the artificial stimulus of a financial-asset boom.
To use a different metaphor, the Federal Reserve is like the team captain on a bobsleigh, he or she can turn the sleigh left or right a bit or put on and release the brakes, but he or she cannot make the sleigh go uphill.
Training his guns on the Conservatives, Denis MacShane sums things up with an entirely different metaphor.
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There can be no better metaphor for depression than Frodo walking through ashen heaps carrying a heavy burden on an apparently hopeless quest.
Therein lies a metaphor: From South Korea to Singapore, the Asian nations see themselves as on an epic quest.
Sheryl Sandberg came to the interview armed with a metaphor, an old joke about a man who loses his keys and insists on looking for them only in a circle around a lamppost.
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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 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.
To condense his subject into manageable chunks, Mr Winchester uses Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a structure: the infant is a metaphor for man's first interest in the ocean, the schoolboy represents its exploration, and so on.
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