Sentence examples for fair metaphor from inspiring English sources

When you're running, don't look at the wall, look beyond the wall.' " That is a pretty fair metaphor for her rise in the department.

It seemed possible that the paper tornado might be a fair metaphor to describe the energetic blur of his art-making over those two years, and perhaps the dueling strength and fragility of any creative endeavor, the push and pull between art and the world it lives in.

Diamo executives say the site should be stabilised by 2035, but it will never be clean: under their plan, more than a million tonnes of contaminants will be left underground.The twin environmental catastrophes of Hradcany and Straz are a fair metaphor for the legacy of communism.

The image of a vigorous, headless body defiantly swimming in circles around a smoldering ship may be a fair metaphor for the recent state of the pirate movie, a wild, disreputable and apparently unkillable genre notable for its unrepentant excesses, its mix of playfulness and violence, history and hokum and, within the last two decades, for its record of spectacular box office failure.

Architecture is a fair metaphor.

Imagine taking an inactive population and forcing them to run marathons -- that's a fair metaphor.

Football, though, isn't always fair, a metaphor for life as Australia's great football missionary Johnny Warren would have said.

For these reasons, our course embraces all figures of speech, including simile, and all metaphorical representations, including visual metaphor, as "fair game" for analysis (to use an animal metaphor of our own).

That's just a metaphor.

It's a fair question, but the metaphor, and the conflict it evokes, is as old as professional sports itself.

But so long as there are a fair number of unobtrusive metaphors, Yablo has a point.