Sentence examples for metaphor without from inspiring English sources

It's impossible to talk for long about New York, and especially Manhattan, without using a unifying metaphor, without calling the city a machine or an organism.

The story this time partly turns on a new cure for the mutant gene, which pushes the series' gay metaphor without developing it in any interesting way.

The danger is that the elections will be driven by frantic anxiety over a metaphor, without any sense of what solutions the public might accept.To make a long story short: that Gallup poll is a bad poll.

It's a kind of compacting of metaphor, without a concern for making sense... it's just on the edge of sense and on the edge of the way language should operate".

It was a stunning development, suggesting that a new page in American politics was turning, one in which members of both parties could once again come together and toss around that lipstick-pig metaphor without being accused of a sexist attack on Sarah Palin.

The new film isn't as deliberately baffling as The Master, in which the tale of a self-help guru and his damaged disciple was all grandly floating metaphor without any true social or emotional context.

We just use those metaphors, without even thinking about it, as a way to capture what is going on.

The movie is truly a tree-hugger's delight (I confess to being one such hugger) that makes the most of its metaphors without straining toward supernatural schmaltz.

Sykes is an amiable, unanalytical chronicler, who flogs dead metaphors without mercy: he reports that Hockney was "blown away" by New York, then adds that he was "blown away" by LA as well.

Researchers from both camps have scanned the brain for signs of sensory activity triggered by metaphors, but these past studies, which tested a variety of metaphors without targeting specific senses or regions of the brain, have come up dry.

While theologians are frequently satisfied to work imaginatively with symbols, images, and metaphors, without regard to the question what the symbols are symbolic of, philosophers of religion normally seek more precision and conceptual clarification.