Sentence examples for ambiguous metaphor from inspiring English sources

To describe a patient's process through illness, he prefers the more richly ambiguous metaphor of a journey: its byways, crossroads, U-turns; its changing destinations; its absence of win, lose or fail.

"The Dots themselves are less of an ambiguous metaphor and have more of a literal purpose in the world," Hohusen said.

Harris's novels are full of ambiguous metaphors, puns, symbols with changing meanings, and the confusions of memory, imagination, dream, and reality.

Torn and tied by the performers, the insulation becomes sculptural, an ambiguous and beautiful metaphor for industrial waste, while the dance grows more and more physical, rocking out to Led Zeppelin.

These include the use of metaphor, ambiguous expressions, incomplete sentences, and unfamiliar names, as well as performance errors like slips of the tongue or temporary confusion over whether to use 'underestimated' or 'overestimated' after 'cannot be'.

Mr Murray is a Scottish sports star who lives in England and has taken particular delight in winning a revered British tournament that is hosted by the All England Club.That is an appropriate metaphor for the ambiguous blend of dual nationalities that is British identity.

But it's also a neat metaphor for the provisional, ambiguous story Sheers has written.

Secondly, the charge that Camus was too ambiguous in his judgments, too unpolitical in his metaphors, illuminates not his weaknesses but his strengths.

His work is fractured and ambiguous, existing in the flickering half-light beween action and metaphor.

The meaning of the organic metaphor as a unifying principle of the state is ambiguous.

In the ambiguous land between "no austerity" and spending cuts, there is much room for metaphor and euphemism.