But in the end, I think that this metaphor of the success of the World Cup and the bombing shows that each of you are going to be confronted with two paths.

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Estelle Morris may regret using the political world's favourite metaphor about A-levels - that they are the "gold standard" which "mustn't be devalued".

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In several works, too, the humble Old City alleyway or hara, the turf of Cairo street gangs and the locus of urban loyalties, became a metaphor for Egypt or for the world itself.

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The ribbons of market tape piled up at Joe Granville's feet are the metaphor for our shattered financial world.

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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.

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Or will that world, to borrow a metaphor from the legal philosopher Ian Kerr, resemble Autopia a popular Disneyland attraction in which kids drive specially designed little cars that run through an enclosed track?

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But the wonderful thing is that 46 years later, the original Planet of the Apes (not the awful 2001 remake) is still a perfect metaphor for our world.

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Most metaphor abuse online comes from reinventing the bad bits of the physical world simply for the sake of familiarity.

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It is the first and still only company to use a female design metaphor for its electronics, in a world of consumer electronics dominated with macho design.

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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.

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