Sentence examples for metaphorical form from inspiring English sources

In "The Flick," directed by Ms. Baker's frequent collaborator Sam Gold with the customary feathery touch he brings to her work, life's messy nature takes mild metaphorical form.

Arizona also classifies groundwater that farmers don't use as though it were CAP water that had been banked — an essentially metaphorical form of storage, known as "indirect recharge".

Electricity is a metaphorical form of energy as well as a literal one, a symbol, ever since the first kilowatt was generated, of human power over nature.

Arizona also classifies groundwater that farmers don't use as though it were CAP water that had been banked an essentially metaphorical form of storage, known as "indirect recharge".

I constructed this deep story to represent – in metaphorical form – the hopes, fears, pride, shame, resentment and anxiety in the lives of those I talked with.

Its explicit subject is the post-traumatic stress that many war veterans were bringing home with them, here given metaphorical form by the steel plate in his head that the unstable Buzz Wanchek (Bendix again, but in a more sympathetic role) has brought back with him from the war in the Pacific.

The idea of divine inspiration takes many different metaphorical forms, so let's say what we mean.

Glass shards are among the recurring motifs here, and blindness exists among Mr. Ondaatje's characters in many metaphorical forms.

It's a setting that recurs, under different metaphorical forms, in many Sternberg films, not just as cabarets ("Morocco") and gambling halls ("The Shanghai Gesture," 1941), but also as a prison ("Thunderbolt," 1929), a passenger train ("Shanghai Express"), a palace ("The Scarlet Empress") and even a studio Seville street filled with confetti and streamers ("The Devil Is a Woman").

In other words, metaphorical forms become technicalized or fade away when they become congruent.

If the people still resist, well, then there are the less metaphorical forms of shock.