Sentence examples for functions as a metaphor from inspiring English sources

The telepathy functions as a metaphor, a pointer towards freedom of thought and speech.

Suffice it to say that the gizmo, which only sort of works, slyly functions as a metaphor for the comic inadequacy of casual communication.

Braid is about the tragedy of time and the impermanence of memory; the time-reversal feature functions as a metaphor for loss and learning from mistakes.

In Eric Cohler's fifth-floor bedroom suite, the flat screen television functions as a metaphor for the show house family that has possibly carried its fashionable multitasking too far.

Lydia Lunch, who toured with Gordon as part of a short-lived trio named Harry Crews, after the late Southern novelist, described Gordon's voice as "strangled" and suggested that it functions as a metaphor.

Mr. Lampert asserts that baseball, with its vast network of people and events, fanatically kept histories and human dramas, functions as a metaphor for the life of the mind.

In this way, New York and other major cities functioned as a metaphor for contemporary experience.

Indeed, Reeves's famous Anacin ad featuring an animated hammer pounding inside one's head could function as a metaphor for both the intent and the effect of late-50's advertising in general.

I suppose you could make a case for "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," that it is functioning as a metaphor for maintaining the innocence of childhood, which is just the thing parents will have the time to do during this extremely poky movie.

This haunting sculpture functions as a central metaphor for tying together the cross-generational associations between these women sculptors through an allusion to the Greek mythology of Arachne, the truth-teller, who became the first Spider Goddess.

The line arrives in the service of seduction, but functions as an overarching metaphor.