Sentence examples for mere metaphor from inspiring English sources

This, it seems, is more than mere metaphor.

Sports is supposed to be a mere metaphor for such themes or, better yet, an escape altogether.

Notably, the study pointed out that previous virtual game controllers are a mere metaphor of traditional methods, thus limited to Tap interaction.

Narcissism isn't meant here as mere metaphor, but in the sense of the psychiatric personality disorder recognized and classified by the American Psychiatric Association.

That's not mere metaphor: it is capable of moving backwards through its life cycle, returning to a less mature physical state.

But enough of sex, which after all is a mere metaphor for the more critical drama of immanence and transcendence played out between the sexes in history, biology, psychology, and literature.

Are spatial schemas mere metaphors that help us to understand cognitive processes or are they actual internal mechanisms?

The works in "Odd Volumes" exaggerate that, since in art, books may function as mere metaphors, raw material or springboards for objects untethered to the text.

Much as we might talk about other public goals — virtue, equality, national glory — they all amount in the end to mere metaphors, especially as compared with the "rock-bottom, indigestible fact" of our "lonely individuality".

"Terms such as 'heartache' and 'gut wrenching' are more than mere metaphors they describe the experience of both physical and emotional pain," Robert Emery and Jim Coan, professors of psychology at the University of Virginia, explained to Scientific American.

Apparitions cannot be mere symbols, metaphors or projections: the characters, however warped, must experience them as hauntings, the reader on side.