Sentence examples for single metaphor from inspiring English sources

If there's a single metaphor in this entire experience, you know, that's probably it".

Were I required to alight on a single metaphor to summarise my entire so-called career in journalism, I think this would be it.

As always, Rosalind comes across as a woman of antic intellect, able to spin a single metaphor into a giddy game.

What kind of story is that?" It is in writing this memoir that Ansay reclaims control of the larger narrative of her life and lays it out, as Wallace Stevens put it, "without evasion by a single metaphor" imposed on her by God and other people.

I loved the Episcopalians but couldn't embrace that single metaphor upon which the Christian story is built, and particularly the assertion it was literally true.

We find that exposure to even a single metaphor can induce substantial differences in opinion about how to solve social problems: differences that are larger, for example, than pre-existing differences in opinion between Democrats and Republicans.

For complex questions, we need a more integral perspective to generate a more complete answer, than theories emerging from single metaphors can offer.

The original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," does a nifty job of wrapping several of the age's deepest anxieties into a single scary metaphor: people fall asleep and wake up different, their individual bodies taken over by a kind of collective unhuman consciousness.

(And all that without a single Swiss Army Knife metaphor. Well done, me).

The reason no single visual metaphor appeared for SOPA was because there was no naturally propagating icon around which people could gather.

What makes these verbal expressions metaphorical, according to Lakoff, is the fact that they are direct, conventionally straightforward puttings-into-words of inherently metaphorical thoughts, thoughts constructed in the first place under the supervision of the single conceptual metaphor love is a journey.