Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.
Quotes about metaphoric (7 Quotes)
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Ask doctors about the time they spend with patients, and most go immediately on the defensive. For some people, a periodic health exam is a metaphoric concept rather than a real one, ... Not all counseling and preventive services have to be done within th
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.
The gay liberation movements in various parts of the world, particularly in England, have begun to take a very vocal stance against the more overt lyrics that rain down fire on homosexuals, ... They've been trying to say that this is metaphoric speech, but the brutalization of many homosexuals in Jamaica speaks otherwise.
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.