Sentence examples for effective metaphor from inspiring English sources

The Departure itself is a simple but highly effective metaphor.

Her pests are persistent and ultimately powerful – an effective metaphor to argue for a more permeable, equal city.

So why does drama operate as such an effective metaphor for the often arcane and airless world of power diplomacy?

By Emily Nussbaum The Departure is a simple but highly effective metaphor; in the real world, after all, the most ordinary death can feel inexplicable.

The marshy ground uncovered by the retreating ice furnishes an effective metaphor for the treacherous political terrain, where footholds are few, and old paths cannot be relied on.

Martin uses Blair's character – how his dreams turned to despair under the onslaught of materialism and compromise – as an effective metaphor for the America of the 1980s.

And anyway, the slavery comparison ignores a much more effective workplace metaphor, and one that more or less everyone with a job can relate to with ease.

Based on this metaphor, effective approaches in obesity treatment can serve as a good reference in order to respond to over-consumption problems.

Part of the transformative power of the Wood Badge experience is the effective use of metaphor and tradition to reach both heart and mind.

None of the terms is entirely satisfactory, but the hawk-dove nomenclature has the advantage of being in use for at least three decades, and being an effective and easy metaphor (and one which is used in several other areas of science as well, as for instance in games theory and evolutionary biology [ 18]).

The technologist who wants to be a lifelong learner and a creative professional inventor can profit from different techniques that cognitive psychology proved to be effective for learning, like metaphor, story and visualization, focused and diffuse modes of thinking, interleaving and how to overcome Einstellung.