Sentence examples for proper metaphor from inspiring English sources

People say that the circus is the proper metaphor for Calder's art.

I don't know the proper metaphor, but do you dig up mines?

The game is only seldom a proper metaphor for grand ideas, and one need not be a particularly contemplative sort to understand the double-switch, to enjoy a sunny day at the ballpark or to appreciate baseball's history.

Perhaps "warring states" is a proper metaphor of our time in which no one is in control.

Whether Biden's reference to "unchaining Wall Street" was a proper metaphor or not, the facts demonstrate that the modern-day Republican Party is extremely averse to regulation in finance and other areas, from health care to environmental protection.

But, even if we go with the conceit and give it its proper name — metaphor — it is striking how conventional Aronofsky's imagination for disaster is.

So far only Tom Friedman of The New York Times has managed to explore this terrain and retain his popular following, and a lot of proper nouns and metaphors have been tortured in the process.

Cajetan called the third type of analogy the analogy of proportionality, and he subdivided it into metaphor and proper proportionality.

The synthesis also shows a difference of opinions in how useful "orchestration" is as a metaphor, the proper scope of issues to include when studying orchestration, and how to approach design.

Horror fiction, even at its direst, frequently betrays an unexpectedly giddy quality, a sense of heedless, headlong freedom that's the proper effect of a good metaphor, building and rolling and breaking like a wave of the sea.

Proper playing of the guqin is a metaphor for good governance — "if the large strings are too tight, the small strings will break" — and emperors were often portrayed holding a guqin.