Sentence examples for local metaphor from inspiring English sources

Finally, he could not resist a local metaphor.

But Europe is unpopular, a local metaphor for globalization, faceless and interfering.

Themes were identified when the following elements were found in the transcripts: main point(s), repetition, local phrases/vernacular, metaphors and analogies, transitions, constant comparisons, and silence/missing data.

But it is the future of where that technology might go that is potentially most interesting: the existing products work on an intelligent platform that understands crazy accents and nuances in meaning (yes, we're looking at you, Nuance), with consideration given to things like local idioms and metaphors, "helping you to communicate like a native speaker," the company says.

They are a living metaphor, the local parish priest said, the product of the overpopulation and urban migration that is a growing disaster for poor countries around the world.

A local newspaper, straining for metaphors, predicted that the American organ would sound like a hamburger sizzling on the grill.

And the camera is a metaphor for the local citizen who enters that space.

And despite Ms. Israel's inspired use of a local demolition derby as a metaphor for Meredith's struggles, her accelerated pacing almost overheats.

He describes it as rising from the earth with the power and effervescence of a geyser — not a bad metaphor for the local water company, which commissioned the building.

One of the pleasures of reading Bayard is in the local delight of surprising and gratifying metaphors.

In the Methow Valley, he researched the local industrial architecture to develop a design metaphor.