Sentence examples for metaphor around from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, much of the country was distracted from that metaphorical war by an actual war in Vietnam, where the only metaphor around was the insistence of commander of U.S. forces General William Westmoreland that there was "light at the end of the tunnel" when it came to that disastrous conflict.

As she does with many of this book's ideas, Ms. Ali takes that metaphor around the rink for one spin too many.

Or let's turn the metaphor around: With the house of print burning down, The Times is quickly building something new, hoping to have a permanent place to live in the digital age.

This renders urban theory and urban studies more complex every new phenomenon gets a new metaphor around which theoretical notions are developed, so to speak.

From an analysis of metaphors used in urban studies, it will be concluded that, so to speak, every new phenomenon gets a new metaphor around which theoretical notions are developed.

The first concerted attempt to build a philosophical account of metaphor around these familiar ideas was Grice's account of conversational implicature in the second of his 1967 William James Lectures, which appeared with various supplementations and afterthoughts as Grice (1989).

While we tend to throw these metaphors around -- as we should -- lightly and tongue in cheek, we wouldn't really kill nor do we really want to die for a good idea -- any idea for that matter, certainly not in our world -- but rather we use these throwaway idioms to signify our passion and the inspiration we get from exciting new ideas.

"Gaga was, like, 'What's this bit about the fish?' The metaphor revolved around fishing as an occupation, as an expression of freedom.

Xfm missed this shift: to hurl culinary metaphors around with all the subtlety and finesse of a Vernon Kay radio link, Xfm's bread and butter is still meat and two veg.

Language is one of the central metaphors around which the discipline of computer science has been built.

QUESTION FROM BETSY: Your tree metaphor — growing around the obstacle — is beautiful and useful.