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Just metonyms or also VA?

  • And then of course there's the Holy Grail of individual awards Most Valuable Player
  • similar to "Holy Grail"?
    • Complex programming has long been the Achilles heel of lighting control.
    • ... the problem of public access to the water at Beekman has been the Phoenix of Oyster Bay.
    • He became the selfie Santa Claus of the night as he scribbled through paperbacks and posed.
    • Born with a challenger mindset in Upstate New York the scrappy creative ideas agency is the David to many industry Goliaths.
    • Research and Markets: Private Banker International - the "Bible" of the Wealth Industry.
    • 'Wild West':
      • New York is not the Wild West of the construction industry
      • It was like the Wild West of retailing, Ms. Sachs said.
      • It was like the Black Hole of Calcutta, he said.
    • 'Mecca':
      • Jordan calls it the Mecca of basketball, if for no other reason than it has been his Mecca of basketball.
    • Effectiveness of assertion is the Alpha and Omega of style
    • This collection of 37 essays introducing the canonical biblical texts of the Hebrew Bible presents a literary Xray of American Jewish experience

Just metaphors or also VA?

  • A condom is the glass slipper for our generation.
    • A metaphor, but not a VA (since there's no entity involved).
    • But what about "the pizza of the middle east"? And what if a product name becomes the informal denomination for a category, e.g., "the velcro of the group"?
  • "So in a sense you could say that the military have become the doves of our time"
  • During a news conference at the festival Mr Askoldov called chauvinism a frequently used codeword for both nationalism and anti-Semitism - the cancer of our society
  • "wunderkind" is quite common, e.g.,
    • On any given day in Fort Greene Mr Lee the wunderkind of black film makers may be pedaling his bicycle over to the jazz saxophonist Branford Marsaliss house to discuss their latest projects or more likely basketball
    • Mr Hua who at 36 years old is head of the Microeconomics Department at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Economics is considered a Wunderkind in Chinese economic circles
  • "enfant terrible" ist normalerweise keine VA: "Vivienne Westwood the enfant terrible of British fashion opened her show tamely enough with tailored suits in Scottish wool plaids"

Pars pro toto or VA?

Is "of the world" always Pars pro toto?

  • Clubs offered him more money than Munichs front office did but the Catalan coach loves the massive historical institutions dare I say the Barcelonas the Bayern Munichs the Manchester Uniteds of the world.
  • Only the Adams Oshiomoles of this world and some irrational and self serving individuals still cling onto such inhumane absurdities.
  • Nevertheless Mr Baker has set the financial Sherlock Holmeses of the world on a search for secret agreements that underlie the currency accord of the United States Japan West Germany Britain France and Canada
  • Maybe the Sam Donaldsons of the world think that but I cant see most respected newsmen thinking that said a spokesman for the foundation Larry Vershel
  • That's what the Dr. Pilkeys of the world want us to do.
  • But the Michael Jordans of the world -- from Charles Barkley to Andre Agassi to Frank Thomas -- can do more.
  • Dr. Schwartz, who is researching whether human ''energy'' lives on after death, called Mr. Edward ''one of the Michael Jordans of the mediumship world.''

Smaller coverage than 'world' but clearly different context:

  • Finally, hire the ad makers and marketing experts who are the Jordans of their industry (they're a little harder to identify) and get them to manufacture the perfect image.
  • What about "All of these international stars, the Michael Jordans of the soccer set, could walk down most American streets with complete invisibility."

Very specific or difficult to interpret examples

  • Be the Betty of the brunch table with this simple match that boosts of golden hues and supreme style victory.
  • Norman Stone, a professor of modern history at Oxford, has termed it the ''Dallas-izing'' of the Royal family. link
  • This minute mischiefmaker his character is himself pulverizes every scene bouncing mutely through them like a Charlie Chaplin on a trampoline.
  • Perhaps the greatest achievement of this fine richly illustrated biography is that it humanizes the daunting artist who has come to be known as the Dada of us all Robin Lippincott said in The Book Review in 1989
  • One company disdaining patents is the Software Publishing Corporation, in Mountain View, Calif., which has an attitude that its chairman and chief executive, Fred Gibbons, describes as the ''Wyatt Earp Silicon Valley gunslinger mentality.'' link

Non-VA

  • In setting the scene Mr Softleys dark shadings and supple camerawork can be extremely effective as when he tracks the first visit by beautiful Astrid (Sheryl Lee the Laura Palmer of Twin Peaks) into the club where she discovers the band. (because 'Laura Palmer' is the role Sheryl Lee plays in 'Twin Peaks')
  • How the quiet kingdom of Jordan could produce a man who has become known as the Sheik of the Slaughterers is a question at the heart of contemporary jihad.
  • False positive errors included sentences like “But should I be the Pierre Cardin of today. . . ?” (NYT 2002/08/18/1416592) where fashion designer Pierre Cardin compares his current self (‘today’) with a younger version of himself → Reviewer argumentiert, dass es eine VA sein könnte ("as we have a source (famous NE) and a modifier (contemporary times) and a target that is different from the source (from a philosophical point of view, a person might not be considered the same as they were 30 years ago)"
  • The second sentence contains a VA but does the first one also contain one ("dapper older brother of Bill Clinton")? "With a full mane of snow-white hair and an imperial self-confidence, Jack Jones suggests a dapper older brother of Bill Clinton as he stalks the platform stage of the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel. The 67-year-old Lion King of lounge singers has reason to strut."

What to annotate?

  • As far as selling sneakers is concerned, Cleveland guard |LeBRON JAMES| is the new MICHAEL JORDAN. → shouldn't we also annotate "Cleveland guard" as target?

without modifier?

  • |''She's| really a Florence Nightingale, helping people who are handicapped.
  • He is, in what has traditionally been one of the most acclaimed positions in sports, no Mike Tyson, no Muhammad Ali, no Smokin' Joe Frazier. Nor is he a Lennox Lewis, here or anywhere else in the world, including in his hometown of Baltimore.

"counterpart"

The regex [a-z] counterpart (of|to) retrieves 1129 sentences, for example:

  • This controversial development - DAT stands for digital audio tape - in effect is the cassette counterpart of compact disks.
  • the electronic counterpart of Home Shopping Network

Examples for different countries/languages:

  • American (37) sentences:
    • While the New Globe is modeled after its London counterpart, the theater would be its own innovation, Ms. Romer said. ''I'm not interested in doing a wooden replica -- that to me would be a theme park,'' she said. ''We're very much looking at the 21st-century American counterpart to the Globe.''
    • intended as an American counterpart to the Turner Prize in Britain
    • a South American counterpart to the scandal over Swiss banks that swallowed Jewish assets
    • Mr. Tonoian said in a telephone interview the other day that he hopes the club will become the American counterpart of the Moscow Bluebird, the jazz club he opened three years ago, which was closed last Friday by Communist Party officials.
  • Chinese (13 sentences):
    • The southern Chinese counterpart of soy-milk soup is congee or jook
    • offering a Chinese counterpart to the words of Marie Antoinette
    • the ancient pipa (the Chinese counterpart of the lute)
    • ''The Peony Pavilion,'' an opera often called the Chinese counterpart to ''Romeo and Juliet,''
  • German (11 sentences):
    • noting that there was a German counterpart to Labor Day that was celebrated every May 1
    • the Bundesbank, the German counterpart to the Federal Reserve
    • the German counterpart to the F.D.A.
    • Lola, the German counterpart of an Oscar
  • Japanese (6 sentences):
    • In a way, she is almost a Japanese counterpart of himself.
    • They say the university and the world can only benefit by having a Japanese counterpart to the university's media laboratory.
    • could be considered a Japanese counterpart to the Mercedes Maybach
    • The Japanese counterpart to our Dec. 7 commemoration takes place in August -- in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 and nationwide on Aug. 15, the day Emperor Hirohito ordered his forces to lay down their arms.
  • Canadian (3 sentences):
    • Published reports here say that the inquiry commission, headed by Justice Jules Deschenes of the Quebec Superior Court, has recommended that the Government consider establishing a Canadian counterpart to the Office of Special Investigations in the United States Justice Department, the unit that has handled Nazi investigations in the United States since 1979.
    • The Canadian counterpart to Amtrak, VIA Rail Canada, is experimenting with tilt car trains and plans to put them into regular service this spring.