Sentence examples for delivering metaphor from inspiring English sources
Carson remains a master of idiosyncratic figures, delivering metaphor and simile casually and suddenly, while keeping her language idiomatically oddball.
Can't have any loose ends.... Gunner, the husband and father in Bruce Graham's three-character play, owned a trucking company and has retired to the Chesapeake shore where he delivers metaphors about human evanescence.
He smiles as he delivers this metaphor with the contentment of a man who knows he's still riding his bicycle with two legs.
Unlike his deadpan delivery on the podium, Konashenkov cuts a more colourful figure when on the road, littering his speech with metaphors and delivering long rants on journalistic ethics and western hypocrisy to correspondents, while puffing on slim cigarettes.
Avoid using euphemisms or metaphors when delivering bad news.
China's investment in the world's largest radio telescope delivers a nice metaphor for China's investment in science: it represents the big picture, and the potential payoff for a far-seeing strategy.
You might remember this as the venue for Trump's last hotel promotion-slash-birtherism event ― the one that got full coverage on cable news and featured a collapsing stage evidently rush-delivered from the metaphor store.
"It's sad that the mural's changed in terms of the metaphor that it's delivering to the kids.
And lyrically, he's lost none of his old fire – delivering the same winning mix of hazy metaphor and gut-churning honesty, self-doubt and head-strong confidence.
To use a metaphor, operational Agility succeeds in delivering a steady flow of additional value for customers, akin to filling a series of small cups with water.
