Sentence examples for effective analogy from inspiring English sources

I called Jim Dale, senior meteorologist at British Weather Services, to see if it was ever an effective analogy in the first place.

She said she'd picked up the line from an unnamed Indonesian minister and, when Jones questioned whether she should refer to refugees as ants, she defended it as quite an effective analogy.

Tipler 1986 (p. 208) has presented an effective analogy with the criticism of Copernican theory on the grounds of Ockham's razor.

He used an elegant and particularly effective analogy that would help readers understand the absurdity of "noncash" expenses, showing exactly why noncash expenses were immaterial to investor decisions.

Somewhere in the middle there was an effective analogy about the welfare of the unemployed and middle-class being held "hostage" by the Republicans -- and a worthwhile talking point about how the protection of the American public as a whole (including the middle class in particular) is the president's "north star" or central guiding value.

A review of analogical reasoning literature offers three techniques that may be useful in the development of effective analogies for phenomena at extreme scales.

Look for effective analogies and draw lines between congruent ideas to score well.

MAIR: A good analogy.

Shilling: Very good analogy.

But effective though analogies may be, they are never exactly appropriate and sometimes are downright wrong.

To use a baseball analogy, effective first serving is like a pitcher throwing strikes and getting ahead in the count.