Sentence examples for metaphorical war from inspiring English sources
Meanwhile, much of the country was distracted from that metaphorical war by an actual war in Vietnam, where the only metaphor around was the insistence of commander of U.S. forces General William Westmoreland that there was "light at the end of the tunnel" when it came to that disastrous conflict.
Sex organs are the metaphorical war zone in "Tyson".
It has to if it is something other than a metaphorical war against "terror".
We should pursue the metaphorical war; hold back on the real thing.
Professional football — wildly popular as metaphorical war, manned by costumed foot soldiers — is seldom marketed as a game of stars or even as a showdown of cities.
Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, has declared the end of the metaphorical "war on drugs" within US borders.
As the "war on terror" demonstrates, metaphorical wars are even more unwinnable than real ones, although they may be similarly brutal, inefficient and full of lies.
Even metaphorical wars can have flesh-and-blood casualties, and hospitals around the country are now tending to the victims of one of our fiercest.
And the country's metaphorical wars have followed an eerily similar pattern.
American metaphorical wars fought in my own lifetime began with President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty," first announced in 1964 when I was 12 years old.
In a 2001 essay, "The War Metaphor in Public Policy: Some Moral Reflections," the philosopher James Childress argued that, like real wars, metaphorical wars against social evils ought to be just wars.
