Sentence examples for metaphor falls from inspiring English sources

The less obvious result, and perhaps a more important one, was that they were teaching one another — discussing, for example, where the metaphor falls apart (as all eventually do).

As with much of Barthelme's work, the premise seems so absurd that one can't help but shake it until a metaphor falls out, and here one might well assume that, in the words of the novelist Donald Antrim, "I Bought a Little City" is "a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story – playing god, in a certain way".

Clearly her "I'm running to the finish line" metaphor fell on deaf ears as a defeated looking Brooks confessed to Chris Harrison that he just didn't feel anything in his heart for Des.

"Military and sports metaphors fall pretty flat around here," he agreed, smiling.

This probably sounds as baffling as Immanuel Kant's "The Critique of Practical Reason" — the source of the name Starry Heavens — but once you step onto the board, the heady literary references and celestial metaphors fall away.

This probably sounds as baffling as Immanuel Kant's "The Critique of Practical Reason"—the source of the name Starry Heavens but once you step onto the board, the heady literary references and celestial metaphors fall away.

Some of the metaphors fall into existing metaphor source domains obtained from the TSC data.

The scene is hideous and comic, but the story ends calmly when the woman arrives and her sister asks, "Did you bring my hundred bucks?" The bird fraught with portent, the banal detail of the $100 and the woman's need to dramatize events all come together with magical ease, as a metaphor literally falls out of the sky and the character runs away with it.

Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, Madame Bovary) plays an aspiring writer, Edith Cushing, who sees ghosts as a metaphor, and falls in love with a dashing and sinister Thomas Sharpe Tomm HiddlesThorThorAvengers, Thor).

The latter contains explicit references to recreational drugs and sexual intercourse while utilizing the metaphor of "falling down a rabbit hole" to falling in love.

"It was a metaphor for falling in love, being out of control," Mr. McGregor said.