Many inappropriate metaphors are tossed around to describe the importance of college football in the state and the intensity of this rivalry; pick your warring ethnic groups, and they have been used to describe Alabama and Auburn fans, living together in the same state.
I have been accused of occasionally drawing overlarge, inappropriate metaphors.
We could base decisions on inappropriate metaphors and watch our affluence evaporate.
There's a beautifully inappropriate seafaring metaphor for finding love, a striking routine about the effect on our sex lives of ubiquitous porn and a hard-won account of the inadequacy of "mindfulness" as a tonic for our times.
The picturesque, but wholly inappropriate, military metaphor in terms of which acculturated man has chosen to speak of his parasitic relationship to our planet is now being used in relation to Russian and American successes in launching artificial satellites and putting astronauts into orbit.
"The metaphor is inappropriate. . . .
Moreover, there is no fundamental principle that prevents the pattern of ancestry from differing both temporally and taxonomically: it is possible (but by no means confirmed) that a straightforward tree metaphor is inappropriate for, say, ancient (or perhaps even modern) bacteria but is accurate when applied to eukaryotes.
Indeed, at 82, he seemed a bit confused, and his chair metaphor was inappropriate at best, definitely offensive and racist to many, portraying President Obama as both invisible and vulgar.
LBL doesn't know about you, but she is pretty sure that light wouldn't be critical to locate a button on something that is only about eight inches long (Note to readers: This last sentence was, in no way, intended to be used as an inappropriate and highly offensive metaphor).
