Sentence examples for each metaphor from inspiring English sources

People and cathedrals: each metaphor is achieved through extreme variations of depth of field or contrast.

Ms. Parry and Mr. Pennington, both veteran actors with ample Shakespearean experience (Ms. Parry is Mr. Brook's wife), clarify the reversals of thought with judicious pauses and delicate emphases of phrasing, so that each image is softly underlined, each metaphor etched clearly in the theatrical space.

Mortier repeatedly reaches for metaphors: a house that is burning, a house that is collapsing, a capsizing ship, verbal rubble and grammatical ruin, a whirlpool, a coward that giggles behind the cupboard and under the floor, an ice floe breaking up, a stagnant fen, a tide going out… Each metaphor is devastating; none can capture the "de-wording, de-languaging, de-remembering".

Below are examples of each metaphor category13.

The metaphor token with the highest TAE in each metaphor category was identified as the most entrenched metaphor token (henceforth MEMT).

Each metaphor can be a subtle way of highlighting what one wants to believe and avoiding what one does not wish to face".

Certainly it was impossible, reading Raine's book, not to imagine the adjudicators of that prize rubbing at least their hands together with each passing metaphor (when they reached Raine's fevered observations about "the arsehole's café au lait. Its spicy Lebkuchen taste…" you would have to imagine that all other bets for this year's award were off).

Table 4 shows the MEMT of each of the metaphor categories and the total article entries featuring each token.

Shorty, L'Ouverture and Haiti itself are all connected to this metaphor — each lost in darkness, near death; is there a chance for resurrection?

The album has some flirtations in "Bliss Like This" and "Company," but its most emotionally exposed songs -- "Bubble," "Bodily," "Origami," "Swim" -- are about breakups, each seizing a metaphor.

He contributed dispatches from Queens nearly every year between 1962 and 1989, a span during which the magazine also published a poem, "The Old Pro's Lament," by Paul Petrie, that turned tennis into metaphor: Each year, the court expands, The net moves back, the ball Hums by — with more spin.