Sentence examples for dark metaphor from inspiring English sources

Yet oil has long been a dark metaphor for Lithuanian dependence on Moscow.

There is some dark metaphor here, I guess, about corporate power and the Jewish lobby, or it could just be that the turban found a visual rhyme in the Guggenheim.

The grim story of the Donner party is one of those footnotes to American history that haunt the national imagination -- a dark metaphor for how the American dream can abruptly turn into a nightmare, a survivalist parable about the wages of hubris, selfishness and bad luck.

Israel, race and religion and the draft all earned the title in May, leaving readers bewildered and journalists struggling to keep their dark metaphors straight.

In his historical novels - The White Castle and My Name is Red - he presents dark metaphors that illuminate the contradictions of contemporary life.

Ringu is not just a stylish, masterfully paced ghost story, it's also a sinister metaphor for the dark allure of our media-saturated age.

The speech, written by Mark Salter, the co-author of Mr. McCain's books and the candidate's adviser of two decades, had dark, Salteresque metaphors — "I know what fear feels like, it's a thief in the night who robs your strength" — and noted that the campaign was six points behind.

Over time, he became something of a black belt, to mix dark-art metaphors.

As a metaphor, dark matter has escaped its astronomical origins.

For a while, the missionaries tap-dance in the dark — a swell metaphor for the refusal to think.

He called those impulses his Dark Passenger, a metaphor that sometimes suggested sexual kinkiness, sometimes drug addiction, sometimes the rage that lies beneath all civilized behavior.