And there, in the cracks of this breadloaf (so apt, this anthropomorphic analogizing) was some small purple saxifrage, stubbornly hunkering down in the protection of broken rock.

Syncretism involves the merger and analogizing of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths.

Despite some heavy-handed biblical analogizing, Hawke presents us with a pair of lively and surprisingly earnest pilgrims - characters wise to the fact that ample Dairy Queen pit stops can lighten any flight into Egypt.

While the playwright puts a few mordant quips in the mouth of the hunger artist, her analogizing of the dying author's concern for his manuscripts to the hunger artist's obsession with setting a record for the longest known fast, sentimentalizes both author and characters.

The analogizing of knowing to seeing may pervade the concrete experience of coming to know, in the mystic's vision flooded with light; or it may be explicit in parable, as in Plato's of mankind misled by illusory appearance as prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows on the wall.

Their political support no longer depends on analogizing them to private insurance.

"I analogize it to a coach and his players," Grantham said.

He analogized the situation to one in which a man hired a taxicab to take him to a race.

Science fiction writers have frequently analogized with "burial in space".

It's tough to analogize between 1976 and now.

The jargon use of these terms analogizes people's short-term memories with core.

The emerging field of animal law is often analogized to the environmental law movement 30 years ago.

"Why is it that humans have the need to analogize someone they disagree with to the most extreme example from their own history?

Assault and violent robbery were analogized to trespass as to property.

Students then use these phonograms to analogize to unknown words.

But analogizing is an operation deeper down in human and animal behaviour than any kind of inference.

The song effectively analogizes the protest movement to the establishment it is trying to overturn.

New messages are freely coined by blending, analogizing from, or transforming old ones.

Claims are sometimes analogized as a series of "fences" surrounding and protecting the valuable invention.

In many ways, these regiments resembled and might be analogized to the modern day National Guard.

Turtledove analogizes the events of his story to European colonization in several ways:

Colourless, almost without form, she needed the bioware to analogize it for her.

Mr. Brokaw said the film had been difficult to sell to studios because "there's nothing to analogize it to."

It is possible that the latter usage evolved from the first, with the adviser being analogized to a House head's trusted weapon.

But this involved a misunderstanding of analogizing.

A legislative body, whose practices in creating law are often analogized to the goings on of a sausage factory.

So the temptation to analogize is irresistible.

Dinosaurs, traditionally thought to have a small brain, have similarly been analogized with reptiles.

The mechanism, I conjectured, would be analogized to the waxing and waning of light on a native world.

The decay process, like all hindered energy transformations, may be analogized by a snowfield on a mountain.