Sentence examples for smart metaphor from inspiring English sources

It works as a smart metaphor for the relationship between teenagers and their parents.

He makes the complexities of population genetics wonderfully clear with smart metaphors.

Like Annie Proulx, he conveys a strong sense that we are Reading a Novel, that Lynch the writer, armed with his smart metaphors, is lurking right under the surface of his characters.

Scores of smart metaphors and similes zip by; "their faces set with the pinched look of angry vegans"; "forcing the cheer like Christmas lights in the poor part of town".

That makes the fresh metaphor a sort of crystallized insight, which temporarily makes us all a little smarter in a very specific way.

And there's the thing: These movies give me stuff I want: from the scintillating visuals to the smart otherworldly metaphors to unabashed male gratification (Sam not only gets Hottest Chick Ever: she's hardwired with improbably-wise-and-noble Dad's personal programming).

This is the kind of smart and evocative metaphor that has made Mr. Crowell one of Nashville's most in-demand songwriters.

Thursday, Nov. 2, "Shifting Public Opinion Through Smart Messaging and Metaphors": Anat Shenker-Osorio, principal, ASO Communications.

Even he wasn't always successful at that, but he was smart enough not to saddle a character with a metaphor as obvious as lugging a piano.

Smart pedagogies must take into account the knowledge creation metaphor of learning that highlights competencies in producing knowledge.

But perhaps the most important lesson conveyed by the great economist John Maynard Keynes is that this metaphor, when applied to the national economy, is fundamentally misleading: what is smart for the family is not smart for society as a whole.