metaphor

That is to say: you can explain in incredible detail what it’s like for you, you can use metaphors to help me imagine my way into your experience, but the experience itself remains ultimately subjective.

Slapstick, for Beckett, who greatly admired Buster Keaton, wasn’t just good fun but a metaphor for our stumbling lives.

“The simile with the DNA is more a metaphor but in some way, there exists the connection as mentioned for solving paths.”

In the song “A Bowler Hat,” Sondheim’s genius is unmistakable in the way he finds the truth of what’s been culturally lost and gained in a simple clothing metaphor.

It turns out both dads are going through some stuff and are willing to talk about it through metaphors about their sports team or cars.