Sentence examples for evocative metaphor from inspiring English sources

The Myall Creek apology stands as an evocative metaphor for that unfulfilled national need.

This is the kind of smart and evocative metaphor that has made Mr. Crowell one of Nashville's most in-demand songwriters.

Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters.

Next, read aloud this excerpt from Annie Murphy Paul's Sunday Review piece "Your Brain on Fiction": Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters.

Here the reader is treated to his knack for opening lines ("You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning") and his talent for bluntly evocative metaphor.

What will audiences make of it today, in an era of "reality" entertainment that elevates the everyday over the kind of evocative metaphor at the heart of Graham's choreography?

The debate was littered with evocative metaphors, portents of doom and allegations of theft.

An Irish sculptor who creates evocative metaphors in a variety of media, Ms. Maher is having her first New York exhibition.

He is fond of evocative metaphors, like claiming he wants to reduce government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub".

It is entirely possible that when subjected to acute critical examination, the traditional dialectic between the moral realist and the moral anti-realist will crumble into a bunch of evocative metaphors from which well-formed philosophical theses cannot be extracted.

Rather than imbue a manufactured box with mystery, he turns our most evocative national metaphor into a mechanical contraption.