Sentence examples for hours metaphor from inspiring English sources

Now, after hours, metaphor is our reality: come home from the office [and] scrutinize every strand of your children's hair.

"This is the Hour of Lead — " she says, describing the hour with a metaphor of stasis, in which everything is frozen around her.

Jagger's transgressions had become the stuff of Greek tragedy within an hour, without the metaphor and clever prose.

The MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach summed up the silent part in his brusque way, deeming it "an intense hour" and "a metaphor for the film festival".

This is a pleasant time to slow your grocery cart to a reasonable mile per hour, an apt metaphor for this new phase.

Tolstoy + Knightley x World-as-Stage Metaphor = Two Hours of Perfume Commercials.

In eight hours, he will explain through metaphor and innuendo many of the finer points that we need to know when we listen to the shadowy players in the modern conflict between Israel and Palestine.

In Los Angeles, Kim Abeles has made what she calls a metaphor for rush-hour traffic, in her "Great Periodic Migration"consisting partly of cicada shells.

Promising passages are marred by clunky transitions and regrettable metaphors: after 10 hours stuck in San Luis Obispo, Vollmann's train moves at last, filling him with a "happiness as crystal-clear as a vegetarian girl's urine".

He went to rehabilitation sessions six days a week, and the Sisyphean task of riding hour after hour on a stationary bike became a metaphor for the lack of progress in his recovery.

For more than an hour Her seems little more than metaphor meets Manic Pixie Dream Girl: charming, yes, but insubstantial.