Perhaps the most famous example in US politics is JFK’s expression, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” A week after JFK’s assassination, Johnson stated, “We will demonstrate anew that the strong can be just in the use of strength;...
Each of the examples of metaphor used so far in this post have probably activated your senses. You can picture and perhaps even feel that cold heart ofstone,or the pure, shining beauty of the heart ofgold. You might have felt the heat of thefireand pictured its wild, red-hot flames. ...
(Simile) Let’s stay together like the stars and the moon. Chorus (Metaphor) Sometimes you’re hot, and then sometimes you’re cold. (Simile) Then again you can be good as gold. (Metaphor) Into each life a little rain must fall. (Simile) Don’t just sit there like a bump on a ...
” handed down in September, that establishes that United States district courts have never had any jurisdiction outside of Washington, DC. Thus, presumably, no one can be tried in federal courts located in a state like California. None of us knew at the time that a federal grand jury in ...
Another factor might lie in the fact that the elements composing an image can be easily described, analyzed, and expanded. John of the Cross consciously uses the metaphor of a window illuminated by sunlight to illustrate the union of the soul with God: “A ray of sunlight shining on a ...
32 In the Buddhist context, seeking a causal agent is not at all the point of invoking the metaphor. Would the DXJ constitute an exception? I believe not. We can come to this conclusion by scrutinizing the word yindui. Since it has no witness in other languages, we have to look for ...