The phrase "telling metaphor" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a metaphor that is used to illustrate a point in a particularly vivid or dramatic way. For example, "The teacher used a telling metaphor of a mango tree to explain the importance of investing in education."
It is a telling metaphor, which reveals his ambition, and how seriously he takes the industry and his career.
But perhaps the most telling metaphor compares Facebook to the other companies lurking at the bottom of the American Customer Satisfaction Index: cable companies, wireless telephone service providers.
It was a telling metaphor, implying that Mr. Bush sees himself as the charismatic, fresh alternative to a perpetually striving, charm-challenged pol.
And Mr Bernstein is simply wrong about being the first journalist in Kashgar for years.To make up for that, Mr Bernstein writes in a felicitous style, enlivened at times with a telling metaphor or a sharpish insight.
While this serves as a telling metaphor for a world in which national, racial and sexual identities are exceptionally fluid, it is one of the book's many weaknesses that, apart from an inconclusive meeting between Dohring and Kienast, the murder investigation never proceeds.
There's a telling metaphor in the Vedic tradition: When the sun shines on a perfectly still sea, there is one sun reflecting back.
The charm of this whimsical narrative lies not only in its truth-telling metaphors and clever punning.
On Tuesday, she returned to that metaphor, telling ecstatic supporters that the ceiling above them, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was made of glass.
With Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Debussy, Boulez, Hindemith, Cage and the Minimalists running off in their different directions, the Tower of Babel has emerged as the telling 20th-century metaphor: many languages, no lingua franca as yet.
The latest experiments of the Large Hadron Collider are now validating what the Bible has been telling us through metaphor since 8,000 B.E. (Before Einstein), namely that the fundamental particle of matter, from which we and everything else is formed, is best described as a "sound energy".
I then realized that the story behind "Moby-Dick" is about this huge, seemingly insurmountable challenge, told using metaphors and stylized language, and in a way, that's what translating a book into emoji is — a weird, huge challenge told in metaphors and stylized language.
