Sentence examples for exact metaphor from inspiring English sources

O'Neill writes elegant, long sentences, formal but not fussy, pricked with lyrically exact metaphor.

I was with Aaron Sorkin just last week and we were both saying this exact metaphor.

But take a poem such as "Plato Elaborated" (1977), and even in translation one sees abundant evidence of a rare mind, a fertile talent for metaphor, for exact detail, and for a philosophical or metaphysical playfulness.

The metaphor is so exact, in fact, that maybe it isn't a metaphor at all.

Not a new planet, or a passing asteroid, or a fat metaphor, but an exact mirror image of our home, bright and blue, and — so it increasingly seems, from radio transmissions — filled with the same folk.

The image – the placement of the stones clearly deliberate, but their exact purpose mysterious – is an apt metaphor for his enigmatic storytelling.

"It is not a metaphor but a very exact definition of the system," Andrey Movchan, a banker and finance expert in Moscow, said.

It's a well-chosen metaphor, and the fact that the vengeance being exacted is based on an unarguably legitimate beef gives "The Burning" a nice edge of nervous ambivalence.

In this paper I examine the notion and role of metaphors and illustrations in Maxwell's works in exact science as a pathway into a broader and richer philosophical conception of a scientist and scientific practice.

"I was always drawn to the metaphor of having to be so disciplined and focussed, in the exact time in life when you want to be free and independent," she says.

Both science and scripture are using the exact same vehicle to bridge the gap between the knowable and the unknowable -- metaphor and symbology.