Sentence examples for potent metaphor from inspiring English sources

Thus this historic road is arguably a potent metaphor of the whole sacrificial encounter.

The set is a potent metaphor for the situation of the sisters.

It helps that the plot of "Oscar and the Pink Lady" involves potent metaphor.

That's one of the reasons vampires have been such a potent metaphor and mythological motif for centuries.

One is by showing how Shakespeare's play provides a potent metaphor for the prisoners' pent-up rage.

His gaze becomes a potent metaphor for the colonized psyche, one that Stoppard turns over and examines with kaleidoscopic curiosity.

One of the most potent metaphors in the play is alcohol.

I see them stoned at the supermarket at 2am, slouching along behind matching shopping carts, when one of them suddenly twigs: "Dude, the whole universe is here in this supermarket!" Sausage Party's premise is so simple it just gives and gives, finding new ideas and potent metaphors in every aisle.

And in plays such as Peter Nichols's The National Health, David Storey's The Contractor, Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business and Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party you find potent metaphors for a nation still plagued by class and ill at ease with itself in the face of material advancement.

But this is not only a problem of a lack of understanding of evolution but also a cultural matter as "many of the most common and potent metaphors of Western history contrast a good and moral up with a bad and reprehensible down: heaven and hell, head and feet, flowers and roots, sky and earth, sunlight and darkness.

You see what troubles you get into, when mixing potent metaphors?