The phrase "metaphor reflects" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe how a metaphor is used to convey a deeper meaning or comparison in a sentence. Example: The author's use of the metaphor "life is a journey" reflects our constant progression through experiences and challenges.
If metaphor reflects clarity of thought, Huffington is fairly muddled; meditation, she writes, is an element of well-being, which itself constitutes only one of the four "pillars" (along with wisdom, wonder, and giving) that comprise the third "metric" of success (the other two are money and power).
Lexical metaphor reflects the ways that editorial writers rhetorically position themselves and their putative readers.
This choice of metaphor reflects the fact that according to Xunzi the primary aim of education is to master a Way that is the artificial product of human invention.
This metaphor reflecting a dilemma between individual and population interests has been used in a vaste diversity of fields in science, from the evolution of competition and cooperation in insect societies [ 2] to intra-genomic conflict [ 3], and even to propose a solution to alleviate and improve the work of reviewers [ 4].
His metaphors reflect the reality of the camp, as with "the empty pavement that glistened like a wet leather strap", and equal care is applied to structure.
Word leaked out earlier that the new release of Apple's operating system, iOS 7, is in for a major overhaul, most notably bringing an end to so-called "skeuomorphic" design (visual metaphors reflecting the physical objects a digital version aims to replace – e.g. the faux leather in "Find My Friends," bookshelves in iBooks, fake glass, notepad paper in Notes, green felt in Game Center, and so on).
In "The Meyerowitz Stories," Baumbach composes an even more extreme setting of his own text; it's a movie of grafts and accretions and impingements, organized around a central artistic metaphor that reflects back on his own artistic practice.
Tremain's narrator uses this Act as a metaphor when reflecting on his reunion with a favourite mistress.
There was discussion at the time (stimulated by two players, George Sauer Jr. of the Jets and Dave Meggysey of the St . Louis Cardinals that football, especially through its use of warrior metaphors, both reflected and promoted a dangerous strain of aggression in American thought and action.
The document also asks students to acknowledge that language used in the course will "contain frank expressions and creative metaphors that reflect everyday life".
While many texts used the term 'complexity', organic metaphors that reflected a complex adaptive system perspective ('co-design', 'evolution', 'dynamic system', 'interdependence') were rare.
