supermetaphor

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   A grounding fact

   A grounding fact; a correspondance between the underlying truth and our ideas and constructions based on that truth.

   • In this way he promotes landscape into a supermetaphor, in order to expose a general tendency towards equalization.
   • Each legal order stands on a grounding fact, a superfact or a supermetaphor, as I would call it, which determines the specific interpretive standpoint or perspective that characterizes the adopted type of projection.
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   An overarching metaphor

   An overarching metaphor; a metaphor that encompasses several sub-metaphors.

   • The third chapter focuses on the theme of alcohol, which is a sort of "supermetaphor" of poetic distillation, encompassing all the other metaphors.
   • This is a case of supermetaphor called metalepsis by Quintilian and transumptio by Geoffrey of Vinsauf. The images echo one another.
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   A metaphor that is particularly widespread or dominant.

   • "Mother" as supermetaphor for "man's projection of the ideal" is dealt a final blow by McBride's organized exposition of the alternative: female parents and male parents — "because no one sex and no one person should be responsible for...
   • BCCI suddenly bloomed as a sort of supermetaphor for the INTRODUCTION: THE DEVIL'S PAYMASTER.
   • Gerhart von Graevenitz (1994) also problematizes the current supermetaphor status of the term arabesque; before the “globalization of its catchment area,” he notes, the arabesque was a poetic paradigm of the Romantic period in literature.
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      A metaphor about metaphors.

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