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1. " She was exaggerating obviously, but metaphorically I could see where she was coming from and I could see she was fighting back the tears as well
2. unworthy souls were metaphorically flogged
3. It was even more unusual that he would know enough about it to use it metaphorically
4. Metaphorically, dying can be seen as an end or a termination to your old ways and habits
5. But Jesus is speaking metaphorically
6. The astronomer been to the edge, jumped in, jumped over metaphorically as Torbin had done literally
7. It is easy to fall into the trap of, metaphorically, tithing mint, dill and cumin and yet neglecting the most important aspects of God’s law
8. Again as in past chapters, I ask the question: If this was meant to be viewed as a parable, then what’s the bigger picture? Revelation is cast, metaphorically I believe, as the end of the final battle that brings on the end of time
9. Was the “new name” that of the highest Christian leader, the bishop of Rome, which seemed to mysteriously morph into the title of “pope”? And might the “white stone” be metaphorically the headpiece and vestments put upon the newly anointed as he ascended to the highest office in the Catholic (universal) hierarchy, in the name of Jesus? And regarding the “new name that no one knows,” does this explain the many challenges to the later addition of and legitimacy of the “Office of the Papacy
10. We all disliked my brothers, Ishvara and Jiva slightly more most likely, there was no blood lost in their relationship, metaphorically speaking, because in mine and my brothers’ case, well, it literally did happen
11. Metaphorically, intentional receptivity is a measure of the natural efficiency or ease in which an entity becomes a source for the self-object
12. Recall that attention is associated with the force by which one is drawn to an object, mediated by what we have metaphorically called the attentional rest mass of an
13. being screwed by the rodents metaphorically and not literally, they
14. Metaphorically think of yourself as pushing a record button and be interested in the same way as you would be with the famous celebrity
15. human brain (or metaphorically, the “East Gate”) could have
16. When Joshua said he was the vine, did he mean that he was an actual plant that grows in the ground? Or did he compare himself to a vine in a metaphorical way? Isn’t the answer that he was speaking metaphorically?
17. By analogy, computer information storage is metaphorically called "memory", but computer
18. Where is often used metaphorically, as in “Where are you coming from?” meaning
19. Metaphorically, these men of greed, like Lucifer, use their material
20. You have come to understand that metaphorically speaking, the eye is a camera that passively collects light and brings it in to record photographs of what is actually ‗out there,‘ with no alteration of the sense data going on
21. that plane journey, metaphorically
22. rum fumes had evaporated, and he came back to earth both metaphorically and
23. Remember that religion is written metaphorically and that literal translation of any religion may result in chaos or unrealistic demands put on our society
24. and the first man his sun (metaphorically), we could say that Adam is
25. Metaphorically, learning to read had to progress at the same speed as learning to write, beginning both with comfortable conversations about each, to becoming whatever the student’s behavior dictated was necessary as the tasks became more difficult for them
26. “To a great degree, the energetic momentum of impeccable choices can metaphorically move aside the lesser of intruding events, but sometimes people just snap
27. Metaphorically, learning to read had to progress at the same speed as learning to write, beginning both with comfortable conversations about each, to then becoming whatever the student’s behavior dictated was necessary as the tasks became more difficult for them
28. well metaphorically speaking of course
29. I don’t believe he’s working on his own, otherwise I would have already taken him out of the game, metaphorically
30. exactly what he would have done in her shoes (metaphorically, of course,
31. I eventually traced myself back to Joseph of Arimathea, at least metaphorically, using a link in the Mormon Church’s ancestry files
32. and grasp metaphorically what will is done; not won
33. You might say they’re more “unconscious,” metaphorically speaking
34. closer to us are more conscious, metaphorically speaking
35. Metaphorically speaking, Bodhisattvas can be compared with those who are the best of the best volunteers that were sent to do the most crucial work
36. The sun was hotter in America as they arrived within the studio complex, sheltered from view by one of the house stages, it was higher in the sky and looked metaphorically bigger in the land of opportunity and corruption
37. This is a new entity; it did not exist before, but is evolving – metaphorically? literally? – from Gaian to Global to God
38. What is the virtual-similitude of love, hate, longing to touch? How physically will our emotional selves be sated by a virtual embrace? What is the machine equivalent of a hug? Is it a frequency in the ear, a stimulation to the eye, or a vibration on the hand? Will humanity substitute, translate or metaphorically feel it as a flesh to flesh pleasure? Perhaps the next generation of emo-games will master resonance and frequency oscillation to create unique vibrations that mimic neurochemical sequences, thus triggering in the gamer virtually generated emotions
39. Metaphorically speaking, the
40. To be a child of a consumer or a democratic mindset is affected by how one conceives the concept child metaphorically – a rebel, a threat, or that which does or does not fall far from the tree
41. Homer speaks of these attempts at abortion metaphorically, when he
42. the chair is both metaphorically and literally – a fucking chair
43. The Holy Spirit is metaphorically referred to as a treasure in
44. metaphorically referred to as our refuge, shelter, shield, strong-
45. Literally and metaphorically, I was put in the lowest position that HR
46. He is metaphorically referred to as our ref-
47. day of the Lord, and is metaphorically characterized
48. So, putting pen to paper metaphorically, I began a draft article that I thought would hit all the right notes
49. By addressing all the areas of satisfaction in life, you will be metaphorically ‘dipping your toe’ into a range of experiences and satisfactions
50. particular continuum, and indeed translates to being metaphorically reborn therein
51. “The god Anubis metaphorically measures the
52. Jot: The smallest Hebrew letter; an iota; the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet, used metaphorically or proverbially for the smallest thing
53. Literally and metaphorically
54. You have come to understand that metaphorically speaking, the eye is a
55. (4) The need to be mindful of asking Self the question; is the text which was originally written in the metaphor genre being read by Self as intended, that is, metaphorically rather than literally? And is text that was originally written in the literal genre being read in today’s context rather than the context in which it was originally written?
56. Isaiah then, in the original Hebrew language, is using a word that means a bright light, and metaphorically represents and illustrates the apparent power of the Babylonian king, but a power, which then faded
57. It could perhaps be deduced and implied from Peter’s encounter with Jesus that Jesus’ reply should be interpreted metaphorically and that Jesus would forgive transgressions and indiscretions a million x million if we asked Him, wouldn’t He? It could be considered then that Christ’s/ God’s mercy towards humans is infinite
58. By reading Scripture in a real, authentic, and meaningful way, we can perhaps view the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden metaphorically if as an ideal archetype to achieve
59. The maneuver did not succeed as well as she expected, however, for though just in the act of setting fire to a funeral pyre, the Professor dropped his torch, metaphorically speaking, and made a dive after the little blue ball
60. And in modern times we sometimes use metaphorically what Plato employed as a philosophical formula
61. 'Tis the hour, methinks, when the winejug, metaphorically speaking, is most grateful in Ye ancient hostelry
62. For instance when the evicted tenants question, then at its first inception, bulked largely in people's mind though, it goes without saying, not contributing a copper or pinning his faith absolutely to its dictums, some of which wouldn't exactly hold water, he at the outset in principle at all events was in thorough sympathy with peasant possession as voicing the trend of modern opinion (a partiality, however, which, realising his mistake, he was subsequently partially cured of) and even was twitted with going a step farther than Michael Davitt in the striking views he at one time inculcated as a backtothelander, which was one reason he strongly resented the innuendo put upon him in so barefaced a fashion by our friend at the gathering of the clans in Barney Kiernan's so that he, though often considerably misunderstood and the least pugnacious of mortals, be it repeated, departed from his customary habit to give him (metaphorically) one in the gizzard though, so far as politics themselves were concerned, he was only too conscious of the casualties invariably resulting from propaganda and displays of mutual animosity and the misery and suffering it entailed as a foregone conclusion on fine young fellows, chiefly, destruction of the fittest, in a word
63. It felt like she was with me always, metaphorically at least
64. Dorothea so childlike, and, according to some judges, so stupid, with all her reputed cleverness; as, for example, in the present case of throwing herself, metaphorically speaking, at Mr
65. In this way, metaphorically speaking, a strong lens applied to Mrs
66. She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with "hell following after
67. “Everything I tell you is true, considered metaphorically
68. In describing financial market behaviour, the largest group of market participants is often referred to, metaphorically, as a herd
69. Philander—" screamed Professor Porter, as, metaphorically speaking, he himself "threw her into high
70. They may metaphorically be called cousins to the same millionth degree, yet they differ widely and in different degrees from each other
71. The much greater frequency of imitation with insects than with other animals, is probably the consequence of their small size; insects cannot defend themselves, excepting indeed the kinds furnished with a sting, and I have never heard of an instance of such kinds mocking other insects, though they are mocked; insects cannot easily escape by flight from the larger animals which prey on them; therefore, speaking metaphorically, they are reduced, like most weak creatures, to trickery and dissimulation
72. It made him famous, so famous that for the next hundred years every little bon mot was laid at his door, metaphorically speaking, the puniest youngest brat of them being christened "Old Joe