Sentence examples for grim metaphor from inspiring English sources

Either way, it's a pretty grim metaphor for his emotional state, and Buffalo Tom use the patented Pixies' loud-quiet-loud song structure to wring out every emotion from this fragment of memory.

Everything in it wanted to be read as a grim metaphor of one sort or another for the state of Britain now – but without the punch and depth, for example, of Mark Wallinger's State Britain in Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries in 2007.

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Guffawing at each other in a circle, pints glasses touching, it felt like a grim metaphor for the disgraced era of British light entertainment, or like being at a working men's club in the 70s.

The grim tennis metaphor is not shot, however.

Invoking the flaws that paved the way for the bonfire likening product defects to "cancer," a grim but fitting metaphor for a subsidiary whose fate could be sealed if its employees and brass didn't enact some dramatic changes.

The grim weather was a metaphor for a campaign dogged by problems, chief among them fund-raising difficulties and bloated expenses.

For grim honesty, skip those metaphor-wielding commanding generals so deeply invested in a war that they can neither admit to losing nor contemplate leaving.

As I watch them being picked off by superior beings, I start to wonder whether this is a metaphor for Man's grim Darwinian struggle.

It was at the Mormon Chapel, near Lincoln Center — she had had a deathbed conversion — and John says the scene at the temple, "with all those black mourners in the pews and all those grim white elders staring at them from the pulpit," was "like a metaphor" for all the misreadings of the past few days.

The Entertainer paints a grim portrait of a society in decay, using the music hall as a metaphor for the England of the late 1950s, and is just as relevant today as it was then.