Word: metaphor
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...storm, his Tricolor ripped to rags, and then back again to the Convention. When the sequence draws to a close, the camera above the Hall is in full swing. Human figures barely distinguishable, the motion is sickening yet hypnotic--Gance turning Napoleon's role in history into a visual metaphor. What Gance pioneered has since become standard...
...talking cure," as an early analysand called it, had to think of themselves as neutral observers of clinical evidence. Software like the id, the ego and the Oedipus complex became hardware; schools of thought grew into academies of dogma; schisms appeared; colleagues turned into cultists; and Wilhelm Reich, confusing metaphor with reality, saw space invaders...
...listen to reason. If only people wouldn't be so pushed and pulled by interest of passion. If only, if only, if only. It's not just that it's unrealistic, it's also that it turns whiny after a bit. Tsongas's justification is that disaster looms--the metaphor he uses throughout the book is a canoeist approaching a waterfall, who must recognize the danger in time and act sensibly by plunging into the chilly water. Our junior senator is the man standing on the shore yelling, "Turn back." It's the fear of fast water; the fear that...
Graham Greene's architect Querry had to trek to an African leprosarium to find a metaphor adequate to express his mood; nothing less would be sufficiently wasted, blighted, defunct. Querry was, Greene meant, A Burnt-Out Case, like the leper Deo Gratias, his soul far gone. He was a masterpiece of acedia, a skull full of ashes, a rhapsodist of his own desolation...
...Sullivan (1840-82), we seem to be contemplating a landscape stripped to its last formal properties, strict and still and immeasurably old. Among these early landscape photographers-and some who came later in California, like Eadweard Muybridge and Carleton Watkins-there is no suggestion that landscape could be a metaphor of human emotion...