Sentence examples similar to moon metaphor from inspiring English sources
GARRET:... We will leave the moon metaphors to be adjudicated later, I assure you.
"We're competing in a sense with this man-in-the-moon metaphor, which is: 'You Americans can put a man on the moon, why can't you give me a job with a salary right now?
The moon shot metaphor brings to mind previous goals set for cancer, such as Richard Nixon's 1971 war on cancer.
Mr. Armani's Privé collection used the moon as a metaphor for the future and light beams.
Flanagan interpreted Achtung Baby as using the moon as a metaphor for a dark woman seducing the singer away from his virtuous love, the sun; he is tempted away from domestic life by an exciting nightlife and tests how far he can go before returning home.
Only later did they grasp its true message: it's an apology for Kubrick's faking the moon landings or a metaphor for the genocide of native Americans or a vehicle for sexy subliminal messages.
Like Sylvia Plath, Land exhibits a weakness for death metaphors ("the moon is the blade of an ax"), but he lacks her bitter irony and her wrath, both essential chasers for the more-than-occasional shot of self-pity.
Recently in American healthcare politics we have used the metaphor of the "moon shot" for curing disease; a metaphor that, by the way, was actually accomplished in 1969.
This unity within diversity was illustrated with a metaphor taken from Buddhism the moon reflects on many different surfaces, but it remains the one same moon.
Certainly "Moon" isn't bare of metaphors, starting with its title.
