And as expected, here on the boat, I find myself contributing little, not wishing to make a cultural metaphor out of just being white.

The wheel has also become a strong cultural and spiritual metaphor for a cycle or regular repetition (see chakra, reincarnation, Yin and Yang among others).

How much you like it will depend on your appetite for the kind of cultural metaphors that David Jacobson flings onto the screen with a reckless abandon.

Hair has been overworked as a cultural and sexual metaphor in the 1990's, and it doesn't yield much information now.

The lettuce sandwich has also become a cultural metaphor to represent something unattractive, unappealing, weak, or mundane.

Expressions such as "living in a cave" have become cultural metaphors for a modern human who displays traits of great ignorance or uncivilized behavior.

He says the second Dodge City belongs to the popular imagination and thrives as a cultural metaphor for violence, chaos, and depravity.

"Yes," said a Tamarian, member of a species that spoke only in cultural metaphors.

He argued that language is often used metaphorically and that different languages use different cultural metaphors that reveal something about how speakers of that language think.

Remembering the Present takes advantage of this fact, asking artists to communicate the present thorough their ability to create relevant cultural metaphors.