Sentence examples for metaphor of spring from inspiring English sources

"… If I respond to the metaphor of spring, I nevertheless learned, years ago, from my Mexican father, from my Irish nuns, to count on winter.

Andrew warned of the impending pain cuts would bring, evoking Margaret Thatcher's 'household metaphor' of 1976.

That is why one of its two dominant sets of symbols is an extended metaphor of winter, of ice, snow, cold: the winter journey.

While the desert is the main metaphor of "August 32nd," Mr. Villeneuve's fish story swishes and swirls in water imagery.

Even when dealing more obviously with love lost, Van Gaalen has a striking twist, such as the visceral car crash metaphor of 1000 Pound Eyelids.

It is on the south coast, and its name starts with a letter which occurs in a sequence starting with A and ending with Z. • But even the tension engendered by this Smallweed enterprise is outdone by that surrounding the latest nomination in my contest for Mixed Metaphor of 2001.

Journalists goad the president into this "rut" (Obama's favorite economic-status-quo metaphor of 2009), and he will spend time in it before moving on to category #2, the faux-empirical excuses.

On Blood Bitch, this approach seems to have given her free reign to connect the dots by using metaphors of winter, lunar cycles and vampires.

As Johnson and Duberley (2000) cited sea metaphor of Neurath (1944) in elaboration of the circularity of epistemology, "we are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom".

The metaphor madness of yesterday's midterm election.

For instance, it could be mentioned that for Michael Ruse, teleological language in biology relies on a metaphor (the metaphor of design; Ruse 2000, 2008).