Sentence examples for pointed metaphor from inspiring English sources
But in the end its pointed metaphor of labor's relation to capital was no respite from a dark if exhilarating evening, with a churning, nightmarish evocation of mill machines eventually overwhelming a gentle ragtime workers' song.
Graeme Virtue I'm So Excited! (Pedro Almodóvar, 2013), 10.30pm, BBC4 A passenger plane, circling and on the verge of crashing, is a pointed metaphor for the plight of Spain in Almodóvar's satire.
Another portrays an English memsahib haplessly attempting to transcribe a traditional song; in a pointed metaphor for colonial rule, the music will not obey the iron-clad barlines of western notation, to the Englishwoman's frustration and the audience's delight.
Sansom said the script collaborators tried to capture that spirit in the translation, "whether in alliterative dialogue or pointed metaphors and puns". Casina is the second play for Sansom, whose scholarly work focuses on Greek poetry.
She moves from quick, pointed dialogue to intimate soliloquies; from taut but lyrical metaphors to witty vernacular.
The piece opened as a kind of duet between a clean, pointed piano line and a wilder, rawer orchestra, which in this context seemed a metaphor: the Nordic element kept in check by the rational forces of classicism.
How not to find metaphors in the way he moves characters around the island, conjures visions, makes pointed comments about "the great globe itself" and eventually throws aside his staff and foreswears his art?
How not to find metaphors in the way he moves characters around the island, conjures visions, makes pointed comments about "the great globe itself" and eventually throws aside his staff and foreswears his art?
