"metaphor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The original musical had a nightclub setting, but juxtaposing the traditional theater gives the new production a theatrical metaphor for a clash of cultures.
- Senate Chamber For dozens of decades, journalists have employed theatrical metaphors to describe proceedings in the Senate chamber.
- Each play finds a different theatrical metaphor to represent our brief and homely passage on earth.
- Much later this theatrical metaphor achieves its apotheosis.
- Mr. Lucas, the very gifted writer of "Prelude to a Kiss" and "Reckless," has created an expressly theatrical, potentially resonant metaphor for the ways memory can cripple.
- Mr. Lepage turns unsettlingly naive devices into luminous theatrical metaphors.
- This also could be a reference to one of the world's most famous theatrical metaphors: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players."
- (Note that I have strained to substitute part for the overused figure of speech, role to play, but cannot avoid the theatrical metaphor of some character playing a part.)
- Goffman forms a theatrical metaphor in defining the method in which one human being presents itself to another based on cultural values, norms, and expectations.
- "I loved that idea as a theatrical metaphor," Ms. Weems said.
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