Sentence examples for metaphor building from inspiring English sources

In fact, it is less a play than an extended metaphor building towards a horrifying, Dionysian conclusion.

Horror fiction, even at its direst, frequently betrays an unexpectedly giddy quality, a sense of heedless, headlong freedom that's the proper effect of a good metaphor, building and rolling and breaking like a wave of the sea.

The metaphor of building bridges is often used to note a rite of passage or a step toward the future.

There is no underlying metaphor or building emotion, no sense of awe or melancholy or even much amazement.

We are "a party of the left-plus", Lucas responds, adding a slightly confused metaphor about "building the economic cake" which I lost the thread of.

It is the difference between a start-up and turning around a big, troubled company, or, to use a more domestic metaphor, between building a brand-new house and renovating an old one.

There is a group that presents shapes as if they were metaphors for buildings in schematized cities.

In terms of our building metaphor, these are the foundations.

(Mr. Piano will need to avoid falling into an obvious metaphor here — the building as ship in dry dock).

Mark Andrus's sappy screenplay relentlessly flogs the metaphor of house building as life, and the family strife is resolved too easily.

Just to start mixing metaphors: am I building a bridge to nowhere?