Sentence examples for contrived metaphor from inspiring English sources
This is a novel where the contrived metaphor, the struggling simile, the romantic reference all come first.
Perhaps most interestingly, Villeneuve and Guzikowski appear to be contriving some metaphors for the "war on terror"; some anxieties buried in the American psyche about just what is involved when interrogation is enhanced.
Exegesis of Crane grows specious when it imposes logic upon metaphors Crane contrived to evoke emotion and states of mind rather than to convey linear meaning.
The biggest let down is in the denouement, where Bibi's own death is revealed - hackneyed, contrived and lacking any real logic, it is a suitable metaphor for the story as a whole.
When we resort to metaphor, we contrive to talk about two things at once; two different and disparate subject matters are mingled to rich and unpredictable effect.
Now, at the turning of the year, what poet could contrive a more organic metaphor for the common hope to bring new life out of the decay of the old?
He solves the problem, insofar as he can, by contriving what Dantists call "accommodative metaphors," metaphors in which, while saying that his meaning is incommunicable, he accommodates us by coming up with some sort of image.
He is there more on the level of metaphor than of fact....Like the hero of "The Natural," he's the man with the magic bat, and he's contrived to make us pull for him.
