Sentence examples for obvious metaphor from inspiring English sources

It's an obvious metaphor.

"Holding the aces" is a pretty obvious metaphor for the lead of a gambling story.

(And, of course, there's the obvious metaphor: girl struggles with weight of the world).

"That's a rather obvious metaphor for someone who lives his life through others," she observed.

But then, this is the whole problem with Blackpool: it's much too rich in obvious metaphor.

An obvious metaphor, perhaps, except that it's a scene of pure joy.

The tale of a teenage girl whose quasi-supernatural gifts are obvious metaphors for sexual anxiety?

Songs like "Your Love Is King," co-written with a band member, Stuart Matthewman, rode a groove that pushed the sexuality inherent in the fairly obvious metaphors.

The obvious metaphors are thrown around, beginning with the title and Wendy's first line: "When you fly, what you have to learn is, what you train yourself to be able to do is, let go".

Many were surprised at how hard it was to find obvious metaphors of the categorical assertion type defined by Glucksberg.

Neoplatonic and Christian writers, although citing the importance of not 'casting one's pearls before swine', also cite the need to provide access through the senses to a non-sensible reality and the need to use obvious metaphors so that their language will not be taken for a literally true representation of the divine.