Sentence examples for original metaphor from inspiring English sources
Then he makes an animated metaphorical fiction of his original metaphor (or personification): "Two thousand years ago she crouched / in the marvelous starting-line position".
He's the Master – with a capital M – of language: there's at least one original metaphor on every page.
One irony about the dominance of this metaphor is that the neural-networked AI machines of today look little like the rudimentary computers that inspired the original metaphor.
Subsequent scuttlebutt is that in addition to a mid-level whistleblower, the immunized I.R.S. employee is "singing like a birdie" (hardly an original metaphor).
Now I had finer cotton, and silk!" The adaptation does an injustice to Zelda's voice, which, reflected in the style of her novel, the autobiographical "Save Me the Waltz," is often mannered but always in valiant pursuit of original metaphor.
Specifically, how does a commentator break away from the press pack with an original metaphor to describe a seemingly unstoppable string of state victories leading up to the national convention?
Cyrano's Lettres show him as a master of baroque prose, marked by bold and original metaphors.
For some, the well-drawn characters, original metaphors and complex writing will make up for this, but I didn't feel the same satisfaction I usually feel after a good story.
"After Hafez", she writes, "attempts an imitation of one of Hafez's most famous Ghazals, borrowing his radif and staying close to his conceits, but straying from the original metaphors".
Some of his original metaphors, such as the coincidence of opposites, enfolding/unfolding, God as the Not Other, and as the Oppositeness of opposites, are controlled by and witness to that same asymmetrical relationship, yet lead our speculative imaginations in some new directions that would otherwise remain unexplored.
One idea Foster contributed to The Beaver was the not-entirely-original metaphor of life as a rollercoaster: ups and downs, highs and lows etc.
