Sentence examples for metaphorical truth from inspiring English sources

"Actually getting closer to a metaphorical truth?

And that's an apt physical and metaphorical truth for the sculpture "Double Check".

Lest anyone forget, rap-rock had Beck ready to speak (metaphorical) truth to power, more than a decade ago.

Davidson cheerfully admits that there are things we can naturally and usefully refer to as metaphorical meaning and metaphorical truth.

And we mislocate metaphorical truth if we think of it as accruing to particular sentences, the ones we take to be metaphors.

(31) When it comes to metaphorical truth: there can be truth (call it metaphorical truth) in a sentence that is itself, considered simply as a sentence, simply false, just as there can be truth (call it mythic truth) in a story that is itself, considered simply as a story, simply false.

By allowing that evolution is a theory, scientists would hand fundamentalists the fig leaf they need to insist, at least among themselves, that the majestic words of the first chapter of Genesis are literal, not metaphorical, truths.

Like much of what he says, though, this should probably be taken as metaphorical, conceptual-art truth and not gospel.

JACQUES DERRIDA When Mr. Tansey painted this image of climbers trying to pitch a tent as it billows in a gust of wind, he had in mind the French philosopher Jacques Derrida's metaphorical image of truth as a fluttering of veils that conceal as much as they reveal.

The cars and the clothes, the furniture and the architecture evoke the reality of an American town in the 1950s, but that reality is filtered through the screen of Jack's recollections, which carry a metaphorical as well as a literal truth.

The characters left on the surface then tried their own more metaphorical dives, basically into themselves, searching for truth or justice.