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“A good metaphor for the project is that what you see on the screen is the tiny little tip of an iceberg, or tip of a pyramid.
A mere generation ago, “heartbreak” was an overused literary metaphor but not an actual medical event.
And you’re not making a joke about the metaphor.
Source: https://deadline.com/2023/11/gen-v-season-finale-interviews-1235591400/
As Black-owned, Australian boutique brand, Liandra Swim’s Deep Sea Collection draws inspiration from the Mariana Trench and tectonic plates, as a metaphor for the balance of how humanity and society sit, connect, and clash with each other.
As Joost Broeren-Huitenga showed earlier, the layers are also present in the very detailed elaboration of the metaphor that is the film, where everything has a symbolic meaning.
Source: https://www.baltimoregaylife.com/triangle-of-sadness-film-newspaper-2/
As Mike Ritter says: "During its heyday, Grajagan was a living metaphor for the surfer's dream of uncrowded perfection in a remote location.
Source: https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/8124282/capturing-the-magic-of-g-land/?src=rss
“But it’s such a powerful metaphor and I really think it sits at the heart of my book, in terms of why Du Bois supported world war I, and how he felt that the war was an opportunity to reconcile that double consciousness that Black people faced.
But when I found that metaphor within the story, I was like, "Okay, now it works," so I wrote it, and that was it.
Source: https://screenrant.com/nandor-fodor-the-talking-mongoose-movie-adam-sigal-interview/
By the final verse, the suitcase of songs is ‘tattered and torn and falling apart’, a poignant metaphor for Alan’s mind.
Source: https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/x-4396299
Come to think of it, maybe nuclear weapons don’t need a new metaphor either.
Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/11/90-seconds-to-midnight-the-doomsday-clock-and-me/
Eskom attempted to illustrate why the voiding practice was problematic by using a metaphor of Frankfort as a household with a grid-tied rooftop solar installation without battery capacity.
"Far Beyond the Stars" is a beautiful metaphor for this idea, as the struggle of a marginalized 1950s sci-fi author still has something to teach the Captain of a 24th century space station.
Source: https://screenrant.com/star-trek-ds9-every-avery-brooks-character-sisko/
Hackneyed metaphor aside, it’s a strange prop to have at an event for whatever reason.
I’d say it’s time to cull the herd, but the political metaphor would be lost to their ignorance and I’d be cancelled for promoting violence.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/opinion/i-dont-care-who-runs-joburg-opinion/
In a way, its abilities and regality acted as a metaphor for Peter as no matter how much of a scoundrel he could be, he was still a hero that could harness the elements deep down.
Source: https://www.cbr.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-star-lord-element-guns-mcu/
In kind, the rhubarb pie is a balance of the vegetal and the candied, the earthly and the sublime, the sweet and the bitter, an edible metaphor for life itself.
Source: https://nypost.com/article/what-pie-are-you-based-on-your-zodiac-sign/
In this audio essay, Michelle makes the case that the reality series offers viewers a weird but apt metaphor for America’s denial of the realities of aging and dying in this country.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/opinion/the-golden-bachelor-aging.html
Intimacy and violence also blend in Durkin’s frame as brotherly embraces and in ring grappling blend to create a layered visual metaphor for the alienation of masculine identity.
Source: https://myiconmedia.com/the-iron-claw/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-iron-claw
“I really want a family of choice, but I have real trouble with the metaphor of ‘family,’ it just doesn’t work for me,” I said.
Source: https://missionlocal.org/2023/02/distillations-dalva-reopens-and-all-is-right-with-the-world/
It features all four members serving drinks at a bar called Purgatory, using the pain of a service-industry existence to construct a metaphor for the afterlife.
Source: https://chicagoreader.com/music/gossip-wolf/trenchies-sybris-luggage-twin-coast/