Sentence examples for language of metaphor from inspiring English sources

Also, try as we may, we cannot scour the language of metaphor.

For Gridiron, he employed the gentle language of metaphor, and felt he was perhaps punished for it.

In a particularly acute essay about Virginia Woolf, Wood has described her essays and criticism as "written in the language of art, which is the language of metaphor.

Afraid of physical contact, resistant to the language of metaphor and opposed to some colors but not to others, Christopher (Luke Treadaway) is compelled by circumstances to make his uneasy way in an often forbidding world.

The paper, appearing in the current issue of the journal Psychological Science, is the latest finding from the field of embodied cognition, in which researchers have shown that the language of metaphor can activate physical sensations, and vice versa.

However, it is entirely another matter whether a plant is able to bind together the manifold varieties of its experience and thereby form – and here one needs the language of metaphor - a representation of itself and of its world upon the screen of a plant mind (phyto-mind).

The Peregrine reinvents the language of natural metaphor, and achieves the remarkable metamorphosis of man into predatory bird.

Like, say, Barry Hannah and Sam Shepard, Mr. Johnson creates characters who are often articulate but connected to conventional society by a frayed tether, and he contrives for them a language of colorful metaphors and oblique or otherwise idiosyncratic logic.

Israeli leaders like, for obvious reasons, to use this kind of language, of historic metaphors, and too many do it these days again, fearing that President Obama's position on Syria and his readiness to get into a dialogue with Iran represent a revival of the Munich spirit.

The oration should contain clear, vivid, and forceful language through use of metaphor, comparison/contrast, irony, etc. Maximum time limit: 8 minutes.

Often they were able, in translation, to reach heights of pathos unavailable to the English-language poet, through some strangeness of language, metaphor and image.