Literary notes about MOLD (AI summary)
In literature, the word "mold" is employed with dual significance—both in its concrete sense of a shape or form used in manufacturing and its abstract sense as a metaphor for influence or transformation. It appears in descriptions of physical processes, such as creating a specific form for casting metal, pottery, or even culinary creations, where substances are set into predefined shapes ([1], [2], [3]). Simultaneously, it emerges in figurative language to signify the shaping of characters, ideas, or society, suggesting that something or someone is being formed according to an established pattern or influence ([4], [5], [6]). This rich interplay between the tangible and the metaphorical demonstrates the flexibility of the term in adding depth to literary expression ([7], [8]).
- The pipes were allowed to stand four or five days after the removal of the mold; they could then be removed by a crane and laid in stock until used.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette - Add juice of one lemon and turn into a mold, press well and let it stand until cold and firm.
— from Civic League Cook Book by North Dakota) Civic League (Williston - Working gently, the plasterer released the casting from the mold.
— from The Egyptian Cat Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin - The idea that surroundings will mold a man is always mixed up with the totally different idea that they will mold him in one particular way.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton - She dared to think her own thoughts and did not grow into the stereotyped mold of imitation.
— from The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck - "Secondly, next to these are men whose understandings are cast into a mold, and fashioned just to the size of a received hypothesis."
— from How We Think by John Dewey - Nor was he slow to perceive that this liberal pietist was cast in an unusual mold.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking - It is like a mold cast of the world and man and human nature, everything is there, and a law for everything for all the ages.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
