Readers who interpret the relationship as overtly homosexual quote such lines as the fact that Charles had been " in search of love in those days " when he first met Sebastian, and his finding " that low door in the wall ... which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden " — an image that some interpret as a Freudian metaphor for homosexual sex, though it recurs when Charles is expelled from Brideshead by Lady Marchmain, suggesting it refers more generally to the glamorous world Sebastian represents: " a door had shut, the low door in the wall I had sought and found in Oxford.

Professor R. G. Moyles concentrates on the title, offering an explication of “ face ” as many and “ garden ” as metaphor for life.

In accordance with the garden metaphor, he stated that the Earth would be " spaded under ".

Water imagery evokes the woman's sexuality, with feminine or ' yin ' erotic symbols in the garden stream behind the lovers and in the waves on the robe of the young gallant, while the flowering ume on the standing screen serves as a metaphor for male or ' yang ' sexuality.

It is a garden metaphor of the Colorado River, which rises in the Rocky Mountains, flows across an elevated plateau, and descends into the depths of the Grand Canyon.

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

Using the " lock and key " metaphor, the antigen itself can be seen as a string of keys-any epitope being a " key "-each of which can match a different lock.

Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.

The metaphor of flesh being torn illustrates the length to which the ruling classes and socialites would go to further increase their wealth.

It has also been critiqued as being unhelpful for falsely employing a spatial metaphor to describe what is inherently a network.

It is expressed through both philosophical tracts and metaphor that the potentiality of masculine being is given actuation by the feminine divine.

It is a matter of opinion whether this demonstrates a lack of attention to craftsmanship or a conscious effort to expand the boundaries of science fiction, either into a kind of magical realism, continuing the process of literary exploration that he had begun with Stranger in a Strange Land, or into a kind of literary metaphor of quantum science ( The Number of the Beast dealing with the Observer problem, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls being a direct reference to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment ).

The lady has traditionally been seen as a metaphor for the church, the church being the body of believers as a whole and as local congregations.

This distinction between online and offline is sometimes inverted, with online concepts being used to define and to explain offline activities, rather than ( as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, trash cans, folders, and so forth ) the other way around.

For example, if one dreams of being attacked by friends, this may be a manifestation of fear of friendship ; a more complicated example, which requires a cultural metaphor, is that a cat within a dream symbolizes a need to use one's intuition.

According to them, trobar means " inventing a trope ", the trope being a poem where the words are used with a meaning different from their common signification, i. e. metaphor and metonymy.

The meaning of spado in late antiquity can be interpreted as a metaphor for celibacy, however Tertullian's specifically refers to St. Paul as being castrated.

Both historians ’ interpretations of the prophecy of Haggai appear to understand the term of the “ signet ring ” as being a metaphor for Zerubbabel attaining God ’ s authority on earth.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife began as a metaphor for the second migration, with Jacob's new family, possessions, and livestock, obtained from Laban, being representations of the new wave of migrants ;

Likewise, philosopher and critical analyst Judith Butler ( 1991 ) states that the in / out metaphor creates a binary opposition which pretends that the closet is dark, marginal, and false and that being out in the " light of illumination " reveals a true ( or essential ) identity.

The very way argument is thought of is shaped by this metaphor of arguments being war and battles that must be won.

In the book, the room is itself significant, and is strongly emphasised early in the story ; Mrs Thompson's room is noted as being at " the top " of Warley geographically, and higher up socially than he has previously experienced, and serves as a metaphor for Lampton's ambition to rise in the world.

In addition, Ship of Fools was used as the title of a book by the Irish journalist Fintan O ' Toole on the causes of the financial crisis in Ireland, the metaphor being used to describe the Irish political establishment and their self-deception regarding the economic situation in the country.

This Metaphysical phase involved the justification of universal rights as being on a vauntedly higher plane than the authority of any human ruler to countermand, although said rights were not referenced to the sacred beyond mere metaphor.

Still, approaches to ecumenism varies, i. e. while generally Protestants see it as agreements on teachings about central issues of faith, an organizational unity with mutual accountability between the parts, for Catholics and Orthodox the Christendom unity is approached within their more concrete understanding of the Body of Christ metaphor, this ecclesiological matter being closely linked to key theological issues ( i. e. the Eucharist ), demanding full dogmatic agreement before full communion.

The earliest sources regard the two dragons as distinctly different, and in a metaphor of the Adventus Saxonum describes one as being native to the island of Britain ( it had arrived first ) which was then joined by another new and alien dragon that fought it for supremacy.

White people, rather than being a straightforward description of skin color, is a term denoting a specific set of ethnic groups and functions as a color metaphor for race.

Media circus is a colloquial metaphor, or idiom, describing a news event where the media coverage is perceived to be out of proportion to the event being covered, such as the number of reporters at the scene, the amount of news media published or broadcast, and the level of media hype.

Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.

Having started down the metaphorical slope, it will continue to slide in the same direction ( the arguer usually sees the direction as a negative direction, hence the " sliding downwards " metaphor ).

Skilful tracking and acquisition of an elusive target has caused the word hunting to be used in the vernacular as a metaphor, as in treasure hunting, " bargain hunting ", and even " hunting down corruption and waste ".

Messroom conversation would include discussion of what turn a driver would be working tomorrow, and if it was a Waterloo & City turn of duty, it was an obvious metaphor to say that the driver was working " down the drain ".

One could attempt to read this as an extended metaphor, but such a reading would break down as one tried to find a way to map the elements of her description ( rising ground, swollen river ) directly to attributes of her suitor.

For the war which broke down the pretensions of Sparta and put an end to her supremacy by land and sea, began from that night, in which people, not by surprising any fort or castle or citadel, but by coming into a private house with eleven others, loosed and broke in pieces, if the truth may be expressed in a metaphor, the fetters of the Lacedaemonian supremacy, which were thought indissoluble and not to be broken.

In a well-known metaphor, Machiavelli writes that " it is better to be impetuous than cautious, because fortune is a woman ; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to beat her and strike her down.

The gatehouse that we continually return to as the ' home ' location for the storytelling serves as a visual metaphor for a gateway into the story, and the fact that the three men at the gate gradually tear it down and burn it as the stories are told is a further comment on the nature of the truth of what they are telling.

It has come down in a very corrupt state, and its difficulties are increased by the unpoetical nature of the subject, the straining after conciseness, and the obtrusive use of metaphor.

Other terms with broadly the same meaning are widely used, particularly " upwind " and " downwind ", and many variations using the metaphor of height (" come up ", " drop down ", " we're pointing higher than them ", " head below that mark ", and so on ).

The second metaphor, also foregrounded in the title, is the representation of place: “ In the summer here in the Okanagan [...] there is a shade of cobalt blue that can be so intense it ’ s overwhelming, and you get this gold and silver of the sun shredding it, shattering it, burnishing it, as it goes down .” The interconnection of the horses moving out to meet the in-coming sun creates a crease, a physical epiphany that assures humanity is in the right place.

The phrase game of chicken is also used as a metaphor for a situation where two parties engage in a showdown where they have nothing to gain, and only pride stops them from backing down.

In the novel, the metaphor of the " fourth dimension " is used to explain a societal shift from a generation of people who have traditional values of interdependence, being overtaken by a modern generation who believe in expediency, callously using political power to bring down the old order.

The metaphor may refer to the fact that if a nettle plant is grasped firmly rather than brushed against, it does not sting so readily, because the hairs are crushed down flat and do not penetrate the skin so easily.

Waddington explains development with the metaphor of a ball rolling down a hillside, where the hill's contours channel the ball in a particular direction.

Coherentism, on the other hand, uses the metaphor of a raft in which all beliefs are not tied down by foundations but instead are interconnected due to the logical relationships between each belief.

*" down the rabbit hole ", a metaphor for adventure into the unknown, from its use in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

We could surmise that the name ' sarmoung brotherhood ' was not any formal institution but instead a title adopted by Gurdjief as a metaphor for great traditions handed down from the past that he had discovered in his travels, thus providing greater legitimacy and a historical anchor for his teachings.

A useful metaphor is a deck of playing cards shuffled and then tossed down so they are piled together loosely, randomly, and sometimes not at all.

On-set, Kohr described the video as a metaphor ; the band representing " the gods ... above the blue sky ... pedalling the works of the universe ", their music filtering down through " the black goddess woman ... the personification of the sensuality within the music " until it reaches " Mother Earth, communicating the lines of the music to the people ... adults, but they're little kids.

" drove a three-ton forklift down the center aisle at The Basilica of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Norfolk VA. Jet Magazine, August 18, 1977 The " yellow brick road " imagery was a metaphor for Jesus ' pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

In Jeremiah the reference is to hunting down sinners, in the Gospels it seems to be a milder metaphor of saving souls.

An old saying that you never have to put a lid on a bucket of crabs ( because when one gets near the top, another will inevitably pull it down ) is often used as a metaphor for group situations where an individual feels held back by others.

Austin Farrer elucidates a complex set of structures in which names can be broken down to give the qualities of the things so named, the tribes of Israel are used interchangeably with the houses of the zodiac, actual historical events are slid around in the interests of rhetoric, the referent of new metaphor is an older metaphor and the beginning of each new series is the culmination of some ( perhaps half-forgotten ) previous series.