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It has been a metaphor for me in my adult years. Why wait to dance? Why let fear immobilize me? Why not act on intention, on desire?

For him, the Great Wall was a metaphor for the way China's society was organised and its relationship with the rest of the world.

It should be careful that it doesn't also become a metaphor for trying to do too much.

The Wall, and the sense of incomprehension that goes with it, also stands as a metaphor for global investors' current worries.

So if I had to think of some kind of occupation as a metaphor for my work, I would much rather be a fisherman.

And it's sort of a metaphor for me for the virtual world.

This is a metaphor for how much we need love and how much we need to be needed.

He uses the word "currency" as a metaphor for an inner language to make sense of the world.

As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child's game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life.

The calf's battle and the herd's assist have become to me a metaphor for countless struggles taking place around the globe.

And trying to find your boyfriend is a metaphor for you trying to find out "where he's at" psychologically.

Metaphor: In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

Imagine that this (much longer than intended) story is a metaphor for how and where we invest our emotional dollars (emotional energy).

I often tell startups to "skate where the puck is going" as a metaphor for thinking about where the future lies and planning for that now.

A metaphor for a carefully worded writing, which can be rendered perfect by only a slight alteration.

Sharing meals has always been an important courtship ritual and a metaphor for love.

Certain spoil-sports will claim that it's a metaphor for how dictator's use the world as their play thing, but do not be fooled.

The prostitute is a metaphor for you selling yourself short or not giving yourself enough value.

The award, officially announced Tuesday during a news conference, appropriately paints a season that serves as a metaphor for a career.

The "acrobat" is a metaphor for contemporary man in search of his lost humanistic identity.

A 'Memory Palace' is a metaphor for any well-known place that you're able to easily visualize.

The apartment is one example: It's a metaphor for the woman's relationship with her boyfriend.

It's not just a metaphor for an emotional punch.

This story is just a metaphor for the rest of us in our lives.

The idiom "Wait by a stump for a hare" is a metaphor for wanting to obtain something without expending one's own effort.

Blindman's bluff being courtship, and the rhythmic rocking of the seesaw would clearly be a metaphor for the act of lovemaking itself.

In Zola's L'Argent, the rise and fall of a bank provides a metaphor for the rottenness of Louis Napoleon's Second Empire.

Mine is a simulacrum for life, a reflection on experience and a metaphor for understanding my existence.

THE humble but industrious ant has long served as a metaphor for the economic virtues of simplicity, parsimony and diligence.

In her lyrics green light is a metaphor for happiness people look forward to and seek bravely for.

In the Playroom is a metaphor for the impossibility of a protective space safe from the reach of modern media.

It has been regarded by many as a metaphor for the "American Dream" .

Snow Falling on Silence explores this experience, using snowfall as a metaphor for the inner journey.

It's a metaphor for unheeded advice or demand, just like a puff of wind passing the ear, without leaving any trace.

Long used by the media as a metaphor for positions of high authority, including "baseball czar"

These images of contradiction are understood by the artist as a metaphor for modern times.

Cities are the world's experimental laboratories and thus a metaphor for an uncertain age.

But it's a metaphor and metaphors are important. My gold stars are a metaphor for me being a star.

Mr Sarkozy's gum-chewing, I heard, served as a metaphor for France's disdain for Turkey's European aspirations.

The image of Chairman Mao is a metaphor for the omnipotent man and his ability to give and to take away.

In the film, final clubs are a metaphor for exclusivity, and to an extent that's what they really are about -- privacy.

THE SECRET IN PLAIN SIGHT: Zombies are a metaphor for violent militant, radical Islamists who want to take over the world.

Using one case study explain how the eroticized body is used as a metaphor for wider social and political implications.

Again, it's a metaphor for how you might live your life, and these principles can be applied to anything you do.

The so called "permissive" or "swinging sixties" has become a metaphor for contemporary social conflict.

Smurf society has been seen by many as a metaphor for communism which emphasizes co-operation and the common good.

Inthe book, cheese is a metaphor for the things we want in life; the maze is where we look for those things.

In the poetry of Whitman and the prose writings of Emerson and Thoreau, a ship at sea is sometimes a metaphor for the soul.

The story has become a metaphor for national weakness, and a call to arms.

If that sounds like a metaphor for Japan's current malaise, then perhaps there is a silver lining.

I see it as a metaphor for a wonderful period in my family's life.

It could be a metaphor for the relationship, but this year I will one-up those silly girls and buy them some roses that can't be killed.

A considerable number of screen display or a metaphor for male and female copulate action.

A metaphor for describing the non-physical terrain created by computer systems.

He noticed that because the water flowed, so you can never step into the same river twice. That was a metaphor for nothing stands still.

It is accompanied by the sound of crackling fire a metaphor for the firing neurons.

Inescapably, it seems a metaphor for the artist himself.

She holds a sheaf of ripe rice or a bowl of rice seed as a metaphor for fertility and sustenance.

In your 1999 paper "Nerd Theology" you use another computer concept, information, as a metaphor for God.

a metaphor for beauty just out of reach.

Never have cheekbones been so sharp a metaphor for granite tenacity.

I used steep hills as a metaphor for challenges in life.

"ban men nong fu " is a metaphor for showing off one ' s skills before experts.

This is why Pali poetry repeatedly uses the image of extinguished fire as a metaphor for freedom.

Joe's service is a metaphor for corporate culture in general.

University of Melbourne historian J. Charles Schencking sees the rebuilding of Tokyo as a metaphor for something larger.

But football is a metaphor for life: you win or lose, you laugh or cry.

is a metaphor for the difficulties in life.

And I want to start by giving you some examples of visual illusion as a metaphor for rationality.

Isis is a metaphor for the feminine aspect in all of us.

Traveling light became a metaphor for how I wanted to live my life.

It is a metaphor for what we have to do as a nation.

And like is it supposed to be a metaphor for consumerism?

It's a metaphor for doing something which is incredibly dangerous.

Lao Ben is your starting capital, here is used as a metaphor for your past qualifications, achievements and capabilities.

This is a metaphor for people who play the principal role of a backbone or the key figure.

Water is used as a metaphor for money in this poem.

And if thats a metaphor for you and i

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