Sentence examples for personal metaphor from inspiring English sources

For Frank H. Jump, a Brooklyn photographer who lives with H.I.V., the signs are a personal metaphor for survival.

In fact, he goes back to Las Vegas with her to die, his condition simply a personal metaphor for inexorable dessication by the desert everyone lives in, which all the glittery pretense of the Vegas strip cannot conceal.

His trajectory provides a personal metaphor for Northern Ireland's transition from conflict to politics.The DUP's principal rivals, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), fared worse in the general election, winning no seats and gaining no advantage from its link with the British Conservatives.

"The first card was the Carnival of Carnage, which established this idea of the Dark Carnival [kind of their personal metaphor for life or society].

His great novels remain difficult because their realism is underlain by obsessive personal metaphors, by elements of mythology, and above all by his attempt to express in words what is normally wordless because it exists below consciousness.

And the visual motifs that run through the 10 paintings in this memorial show -- from clocks and tombstones, to angelic birdlike creatures, to landscapes with the low-horizoned, storm-approaching character of oceanside terrain -- have the weight of personal metaphors.

And the rest of those words, it was a fun exercise twisting old images into personal metaphors. .

My photographs do, however, have private nicknames referring to the personal metaphors that they evoke in me.

Now Grohl, as lyricist, goes a little heavy on the personal growth metaphor for some tastes, with the new single, "Walk", the one they'll play live for MTV, working over the idea of "learning to walk / learning to talk again".

They maintained that a work of art reflects an artist's synthesis of nature into personal aesthetic metaphors and symbols.

Why do you always need one?" The Personal Pan Pizza The metaphor is not lost on you.