The difference is staggering.

A Metaphor for Obama

And this is art. This is metaphor.

Decline is a misleading metaphor.

So here's the metaphor I'm offering today.

Czarism might be a better historical metaphor.

And then he draws the following conclusions for any dimwits who haven t yet understood him

I thought it was just a metaphor.

After all, empire is merely a metaphor.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark Now metaphor is ubiquitous, yet it's hidden.

A good metaphor might embody the idea of an inclusive economy.

But metaphor is a way of thought before it is a way with words.

However, the metaphor is limited by a simple fact computers do not make computers.

It described a remarkable two chain helical structure for DNA the genetic material in living organisms.

Man They'll get an incredible panorama and understand, I think more completely, the sheer totality of the destruction of the place.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns it is the creation of patterns.

NEW YORK A striking symmetry is emerging in debates about the future of higher education around the world.

It has not swung back to Stalinism Czarism might be a better historical metaphor.

Yes, a startling statistic, combined with some hyperbolic prose, will make us sit up and pay attention.

The metaphor of a game with rules and participants leads many to think in terms of a competition between nations.

You like that one? As opposed to you could see George Bush, well, what's the metaphor there?

If America is famously a melting pot, Canada holds to a different metaphor a mosaic. Melting pot means you come and everyone just assimilates into one giant hole, says Hussen.

In that sense, the metaphor of war with its emphasis on military force is misleading.

Agent metaphors describe price movements as the deliberate action of a living thing, as in, The NASDAQ climbed higher.

Object metaphors describe price movements as non living things, as in, The Dow fell like a brick.

PRINCETON The astonishing story of Barack Obama s election as president has already done much to restore America s global image.

Does the system s remarkable resiliency since 2008 mean that it can withstand the next crisis?

The black swan metaphor suggests that these events reflect difficulty in correctly assessing risks in complex systems.

The metaphor of war has the singular advantage that it clearly and strongly evokes the intensity of the counterattack that was called for.

But change is not a metaphor for a new government it does not stand for any policies.

In this, Elvis is following Aristotle's classic definition of metaphor as the process of giving the thing a name that belongs to something else.

A fish out of water is a metaphor for being unable to use your talents due to a change of environment.

And I thought, what a wonderful metaphor, isn't it? An American President who has to write without smudging the ink.

But Israel s breathtaking victory against three Arab armies in 1967 brought it not only grandeur, but also moral and political decay.

The metaphor is so clear. You bring the crosses from your community, in this wonderful fusion of Christian and pre Columbian ideas.

These billions of dollars in evaded taxes indicated by the Panama Papers are not just a metaphor for inequality, they are its substance.

But the war metaphor also carries inevitable connotations that, when applied to terrorism, are misleading and counterproductive.

So the metaphor I'd like the use I can take from a story of a great idea that's quite recent a lot more recent than the 1650s.

In the US, the collapse of grownup Republicans in Congress the extraordinary failure of fiscal conservatives to mount any effective opposition to the Bush administration's renewed destabilization of American government finances.

In the US, the collapse of grownup Republicans in Congress the extraordinary failure of fiscal conservatives to mount any effective opposition to the Bush administration's renewed destabilization of American government finances.

But if these stunning economic statistics make you think that so much capitalist development must also have brought more democracy to China, think again.

Sadly you're not allowed to take photographs inside, which is a real shame, because the most striking feature for me is the huge wall of photographs of the disappeared reaching up across the entire space.

Much more progress toward comprehensive public futures and derivatives markets would help, as would policies to encourage the emerging world to participate more in the US economy. (Indeed, the inclusion metaphor is essentially global in spirit had Obama used it in the past, his economic policies might have been less protectionist.)

(Indeed, the inclusion metaphor is essentially global in spirit had Obama used it in the past, his economic policies might have been less protectionist.)

So perhaps the existential fear of some Western intellectuals is easier to explain than their remarkable, sometimes fawning trust in the US government to save the world by force.