"metaphor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And as expected, here on the boat, I find myself contributing little, not wishing to make a cultural metaphor out of just being white.
- The wheel has also become a strong cultural and spiritual metaphor for a cycle or regular repetition (see chakra, reincarnation, Yin and Yang among others).
- How much you like it will depend on your appetite for the kind of cultural metaphors that David Jacobson flings onto the screen with a reckless abandon.
- Hair has been overworked as a cultural and sexual metaphor in the 1990's, and it doesn't yield much information now.
- The lettuce sandwich has also become a cultural metaphor to represent something unattractive, unappealing, weak, or mundane.
- Expressions such as "living in a cave" have become cultural metaphors for a modern human who displays traits of great ignorance or uncivilized behavior.
- He says the second Dodge City belongs to the popular imagination and thrives as a cultural metaphor for violence, chaos, and depravity.
- "Yes," said a Tamarian, member of a species that spoke only in cultural metaphors.
- He argued that language is often used metaphorically and that different languages use different cultural metaphors that reveal something about how speakers of that language think.
- Remembering the Present takes advantage of this fact, asking artists to communicate the present thorough their ability to create relevant cultural metaphors.
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