Sentence examples for at metaphor from inspiring English sources

His work, which he stores in his apartment, was last shown at an exhibit at Metaphor, a Brooklyn art gallery, in 2003.

"We have purposefully not included artists who stopped at metaphor and allegory," says Stallings.

A fruitful place to begin this discussion is by looking at "metaphor" and our mind's ability to craft it into our narrative.

This attempt at metaphor is typical of his prose: "The owners who did best had a vision of what they would do after the sale and thus were better able to handle their metamorphosis from top banana one day to ordinary piece of fruit the next".

Could that subdued second adjective be hinting at metaphors for adolescent upheaval?

"You begin to realize when you look at metaphors how common they are in helping us understand abstract domains," Goldberg said.

Or, as Donna E. Shalala, president of Hunter College, said more succinctly, "Creativity is ageless". Both of them were holding forth at "Metaphors of Self: Creativity and Reminiscence in Old Age," a two-day conference at which 250 gerontologists, artists, scholars and visitors of all ages gathered under the auspices of the Brookdale Center last week.

("I don't know if you excel at metaphors anymore, Dave," said Schumer).

He has little interest in niceties — the forks soon give way to fingers — but he is a patient explainer, and a whiz at diagrammatic metaphor.

To say that Shaw is primarily a verbal playwright is pretty much like saying that Shakespeare was a dab hand at a metaphor.

The unadorned language works to the poem's advantage to convey the point at which metaphor crosses over into the literal.