Word: metaphoric
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...corporations would have you think or the radio. Most people listen to a wide variety of music, whether they're black, white or Asian. It just gets to a point where sampling culture, especially in my own work, I usually try to have the music act as a metaphor for plurality in general. And the music acts as a hypothetical space for all these different cultures of North America. I'm from New York. I live in Chinatown. You turn left the signs are in Hebrew, you turn right they're in Chinese, you go straight, they're in Spanish...
...that one, you know the one, it's got that funky beat in the background and these synthesized voice thingies and he's singing about some metaphor for something I think...
...such, Apt Pupil would seem to be a thriller that hovers somewhere between tolerable and entertaining. What's troubling, though, is that Dussander is a former S.S. officer, and this cat in an oven acts as an obvious metaphor for the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, the reference here being a blatant and almost nauseating one to Nazi gas chambers. If far more carefully done, a movie could perhaps have succeeded in making people understand the horrors of the Holocaust in visceral terms, for it is certainly a shockingly emotional event that is all too easily...
...story structured and directed by transportation, yet, in a distinctly personal sense, it is a book about navigation. The chapters of this book do not flow in any conventional order; they do not happen chronologically, nor do they evolve around a central theme, subsequently germinating into a complex literary metaphor. Instead, the story just happens, which may cause many readers to feel disoriented and lost as the first few chapters progress, fluently transgressing borders of time and place. When Lindbergh is describing a memorable flyinglesson of her youth, she deftly weaves in hermother's experiences as a glider pilot, soaring...
...know the difference between an Eastern and a Western backhand? How about a pulsus bisferiens and a pulsus paradoxus? Have you ever considered relating an Eastern backhand to a pulsus paradoxus, and then using that relationship as a metaphor for the complexities of human existence? "Why would you want to" might be the more pertinent question, but for Abraham Verghese, such metaphors tell his story...