Sentence examples for needs metaphor from inspiring English sources

The author needs metaphor if he is to apply his 21st-century uncertainty to a fictional world.

And scientists need metaphor to describe things that they don't fully understand yet".

But the facts of Barnes's life without Kavanagh don't need metaphors.

"During peacetime, when we need metaphors, we raid the language of war.

Its use is fairly self-explanatory, but if you need a metaphor, let's just say you can't be sure whether you need to buy more peanut butter without sticking a knife in the jar, scraping round the edges and seeing if any comes out.

I needed a metaphor and thought about mixers.

A glass bedroom for the Clintons — as if they needed a metaphor to underscore their constant exposure.

There's no need for metaphor: "Bush famously brought to Washington an MBA's approach to governing.

Mr. Miller knew he needed a metaphor and found it, as many American schoolchildren know, in the Salem witch trials.

He had no need of metaphor; the push in his sentences is towards the apposite phrase and he repeatedly gives the reader the satisfaction of finding it.

As if the crisis-hit eurozone needed another metaphor for doom, the new president's first day in office was accompanied by thunder and lightning storms of epic proportions.