Sentence examples for floating metaphor from inspiring English sources

And wow, what a floating metaphor Peter turned it into.

In the Trump campaign, the Midwest has lost its specificity and become a floating metaphor.

He likes to quote A.D. Coleman, a writer who lives on Staten Island, on the ferry's 24-hour appeal: "No matter where one is in the cycle of the hours, there's room and time enough here for love, hate, romance, mystery -- a floating metaphor".

The new film isn't as deliberately baffling as The Master, in which the tale of a self-help guru and his damaged disciple was all grandly floating metaphor without any true social or emotional context.

Late 60s rock poetry was, he scathingly notes, "a set of floating metaphors for a culture that was growing detached from everything but its own tropes".

On these giant floating metaphors, the guests' enormous consumption (cruises, where buffets appear from dawn to midnight, are notorious places to gain weight) is serviced by staff hired from the poorest countries on earth, brought on board under the kind of contracts made feasible by a global labour market.

He floats a metaphor.

The white dog registers as a flesh-and-blood creature as well as a free-floating metaphor.

The floating opera as a metaphor for narrative and for life so pleased Barth that he returned to it again in Once Upon A Time: A Floating Opera (1994).

The screenplay was written by Cuarón and his son Jonás, and they have shaped Stone's floating dilemma as a metaphor for a life that's in permanent suspension.

The non-scatological language of Barracuda is filled with watery metaphors: "drowning", "floating" and "freestyle", among other words, have both swimming and non-swimming meanings.