Sentence examples for human metaphor from inspiring English sources

Conversely, when Latrell Sprewell committed his indefensible attack on P. J. Carlesimo, he became the great American pariah, the human metaphor for an entire sport (basketball) gone sour.

OR put it this way: the art here in Marfa, given space and a home in perpetuity, is treated with a respect that becomes a moral point when regarded as a human metaphor.

But these images, these human metaphors, also expose the frailty of such supplication, since just as God is conjured into words he seems to disappear: many of the Psalms are like flares sent out into the night sky of appeal.

Choose one non-human metaphor describing the person.

The overarching story is built around a good and evil theme, which serves as a human-scaled metaphor within a complex structure of myth and allegory.

The show was seen as more than just a human-scaled metaphor of good and evil, with the power of spirits as one of the show's strongest elements.

18 Biological network models that represent an up-to-date summary of known biology within defined boundaries (eg, species, tissue, and disease) offer a readily human-understandable metaphor for biological relationships and are amenable to computational analysis when encoded in the appropriate format.

Humans use metaphors to explore their relationship with nature.

Was it George Eliot who found something melancholy about the human gift for metaphor, since it meant we could only describe a thing by calling it something else?

The story's preoccupation with emotional isolation, abandonment, decay and transformation has keen parallels, I thought, with the arc of some human lives (a metaphor that will, fortunately, sail over the heads of most young readers).

The first, with which Robbe-Grillet is chiefly associated, relates to the novelist's concern with things in themselves, not things as human symbols or metaphors.