Sentence examples for repeated metaphor from inspiring English sources

A repeated metaphor, sung in an opening lament, is that mankind suffers in life as an anvil from the blows of hammers.

Indeed, her niece confirmed, the making of "Helen's War" was as much about their conflicts as it was about her aunt's "bombing runs," Dr. Caldicott's widely repeated metaphor for her incendiary speeches at book signings and rallies.

In Merleau-Ponty's repeated metaphor, every painter starts the history of painting afresh (1960, 309 311) because the same visible world calls for an infinite number of expressive variations, each singular in its determinate coherence.

In the endlessly repeated metaphor, May supposedly occupied Labour's space with her big, righteous tanks, their tracks churning up Labour territory, their turrets turned towards Labour's heartlands, threatening to blast holes in the party's vote with big shells full of social justice.

While the video certainly dwells on some of the more negative atrocities of Earth, with repeated metaphors of skulls, money signs, explosions, and so on, they're presented in an aesthetically elegant manner that almost neutralizes their obscenity.

Barnstorm with your buddy Buffett, and make sure he keeps repeating his metaphor about the American economy being a great athlete that just had a heart attack.

Amid this cacophony, devoted readers chimed in on Twitter and beyond to obsequiously repeat the metaphor of the Befana, urging everyone to read the novels and to stop worrying about Ferrante's identity.

Obama vowed that the problems with Healthcare.gov would be swiftly corrected and likened the launch of the health insurance exchanges to the introduction of new Apple products that are imperfect at first, repeating a metaphor used by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Monday.

Christ's repeated use of metaphor and story, Wiman asserts, is an effective way of asking people to "stake their lives on a story, because existence is not a puzzle to be solved but a narrative to be inherited and undergone and transformed person by person".

A metaphor repeated in the film, apropos of death, is one from surfing.

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