Sentence examples similar to evocative similes for terror from inspiring English sources

Waters keeps a tight grip throughout, maintaining her careful, evocative similes even when depicting gore.

There is no justification for terror".

The famous Homeric similes, for example, evoke the familiar, verifiable, natural world.

The instructor was explicating a poem, "A Simile for Her Smile," by Richard Wilbur.

Sometimes, during those journeys, he would cite skating as a simile for a healthy life.

Here the founding act of American colonial history becomes a simile for modern Middle East policy.

At the turn of the century, "rich as an Argentine" was a Parisian simile for great wealth.

It's a suitably un-rock'n'roll simile for music that sounds like nothing else in rock'n'roll.

Indeed, orchestration is perhaps the best simile for film, even to the parallel of recurrent themes and rhythms.

Or, to use Derek Marlowe's simile: "For Tom, writing a play is like sitting for an examination.

One part of the exhibit was the Chinese word "yung" broken into eight strokes, with a descriptive simile for each stroke.