Sentence examples for familiar metaphor from inspiring English sources

It's also a symbol of life, Salomon's flowing water the familiar metaphor for life's journey.

He's also alluding to the city itself, and the familiar metaphor of skyscrapers as today's Gothic cathedrals.

At times, he called on the familiar metaphor of American blacks as modern-day equivalents of the ancient Hebrews, a people marked by terrible suffering and displacement.

A familiar metaphor for nature is the pyramid of life, with large predators living at the peak because they're few in number and eat species lower on the pyramid.

Nagisa Oshima's elegant historical film "Gohatta" recycles a familiar metaphor -- male homosexuality as a symbol of decadence -- that is so loaded with dramatic implication it simply refuses to die.

Seeking to explain the eagerness of the well-to-do to join the loving-hands-at-home movement, David E. Monn, a New Yorker who writes about home entertaining, used a familiar metaphor.

Diski recoils at the familiar metaphors.

They explain away the rituals of the church as clothing God's relationship with humans in familiar metaphors and ceremonies; some punitive, some heart-warming, like sainthood.

Perhaps this insistence is Ryan's way of illustrating a second-city mentality, but what hits our ears, both in voice-overs and in the characters' comments, is a barrage of very familiar metaphors.

For Mr Rykwert, a man on foot in the age of speeding virtuality, good architecture may still show us a face where flâneurs can read the story of their urban setting in familiar metaphors.

Although our results are partially consistent with the graded salience hypothesis and the coarse coding hypothesis, the right hemisphere's sensitivity to familiar metaphors suggests that right hemisphere recruitment is most influenced by semantic integration demands.