Sentence examples for extraordinary metaphor from inspiring English sources

But there was nothing along the lines of last year's extraordinary metaphor comparing Russia to a bear in the forest, with the west trying to tear out its teeth and claws until it became a mere stuffed toy.

It's an extraordinary metaphor for the wars of the last half-century".

Serge Trifkovic, a Serbian-American writer, was the most entertaining, speaking in extraordinary metaphor and railing against the west.

It was an extraordinary metaphor to chose; a euphemism which was bound to obscure further exactly what the president had in mind.

On the surface, the setup seems the predictable folderol of a comedy of manners; by degrees, however, the characterizations become an extraordinary metaphor that resonates with our own noisy, deracinating moment.

"The masking of identity and the cultural grafting seemed to us an extraordinary metaphor," Ms. Weems said by telephone from Glasgow, one of the cities on the current tour of "Alladeen" (after Brooklyn, the next and last American stop will be Feb. 26-29 in the Redcat performance space at the new Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles).

Extraordinary person.

It's called metaphor.

And so the name of Marathon has lived on not only as a famous battle, but also as what is now a 26.2-mile race and a metaphor for extraordinary effort and endurance.

— ANNIE LOWREY Bernanke's aptly strange metaphor for ending extraordinary purchases: Trying to "land the ship in a smooth way onto the aircraft carrier".

Water is a metaphor for movement, for extraordinary things happening".