The wooden ornament was a carving of a person or an animal - a sentient being.
The metaphor doesn't really work when you're talking about a studio complex.
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I thought one of the standards of sentience was the ability to feel emotion.Chie wrote:The wooden ornament was a carving of a person or an animal - a sentient being.
The metaphor doesn't really work when you're talking about a studio complex.
Do animals feel emotion?
Perhaps a segue for another topic.
Not necessarily, the navy had the royal crest at the front of ships...Chie wrote:The wooden ornament was a carving of a person or an animal - a sentient being.
The metaphor doesn't really work when you're talking about a studio complex.
Okay, technically the crest was a figure as well. The dictionary says a figure can be a sculptural representation of a person/animal or a decorative shape. Doesn't say anything about buildings though.Beep wrote:Not necessarily, the navy had the royal crest at the front of ships...Chie wrote:The wooden ornament was a carving of a person or an animal - a sentient being.
The metaphor doesn't really work when you're talking about a studio complex.
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It does when you're talking about Broadcasting House. Have you never stood back and looked at it? It's just like a ship sailing down Portland Place.Chie wrote:The metaphor doesn't really work when you're talking about a studio complex.
When a figure adorns the front of a ship it is called a figurehead.Jovis wrote:What if it's a metaphor?
A purely symbolic person at the forefront of an organisation is metaphorically called a figurehead.
A corporation's main building whose use is primarily functional and which I would argue lies at the heart of the operation rather than at the front of it, is not a figurehead.
You could call Broadcasting House the BBC's flagship building but it's not a figurehead. The statues at the front of it could be called figureheads though.Nick Harvey wrote:It does when you're talking about Broadcasting House. Have you never stood back and looked at it? It's just like a ship sailing down Portland Place.Chie wrote:The metaphor doesn't really work when you're talking about a studio complex.
