Word: metaphores
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...song, which ends with “That’s the way it is / When nature plays its lovely hand / You’ll understand everything.” Only thing is, I don’t. This pledge to wildflowers may be meant as some sort of metaphor: when love comes, it moves everything out of the way, just like a wildflower displaces native plants and shrubs...
...some such hippie nonsense. But this is just a metaphor for metaphors’ sake. It doesn’t give you a deeper understanding of the situation than if it had been said straight...
...course provided structure and discipline regarding written and oral communications,” he said. “The WAC slot was sort of a metaphor for hard, hard work and all that was rigorous and pressure-laden at the Harvard Business School...
...Strangers on a Train” (and no accident either—Hanson’s 1990 film “Bad Influence” drew heavily from the film), and a bit of bravado direction that sharply highlights the movie’s central metaphor...
...people put their cigarette lighters up to show support for Kim’s flaunting of the judicial system, but there are also an alarming number of shots of people shooting flame-throwers. In my kind of Li’l Kim video, that would be a sexual metaphor. Here, it’s just silly. You’re silly, Li’l Kim! Go to jail! Do not pass go! Do make sexier videos...