Sentence examples for top metaphor from inspiring English sources

Since the Enlightenment, one mode of science has always been dominant, the top metaphor that educated people use to talk about experience.

Top metaphor marks, though, go to Arthur Kroeber of the analytics firm GK Dragonomics, whose analysis this week of the challenges facing China concluded that the country needed to go on a diet: "For the last decade China enjoyed a delicious and fattening diet of cheesecake.

Toltz even provides a gloriously over-the-top metaphor to further make the point: Martin builds a house in the middle of a maze he creates in the outback, making him "a labyrinth in a labyrinth".

Instead he tosses up metaphor after hard-to-top metaphor (after a party, a green bra on the lawn is a "listless amphibian") and a series of original tableaus, ­notably the powerful moment when an unpopular girl asks Dade why he won't be with her — and both he and the reader learn there are worse things to be than closeted in Iowa.

His Citicorp Center has a spinning top, a metaphor for the fiscal crisis; his Flatiron is literally flat, and while the outline will be obvious, it will be flying on a flagpole, set on ball bearings so it moves with the wind.

It is a drawing studio inspired by Thoreau but surrounded by the white draping of a circus big top: an apt metaphor for the tension between private creativity and public display.

Camus uses the Greek legend of Sisyphus, who is condemned by the gods for eternity to repeatedly roll a boulder up a hill only to have it roll down again once he got it to the top, as a metaphor for the individual's persistent struggle against the essential absurdity of life.

And then tried to top his own metaphor with, "I hit the Powerball of 3-year-olds".

She is the "woman on top," drawing from the metaphor for women's power that runs through Euro-American history.

Nevertheless, the acres of glass, the ramp and the inviting "living room" at the top all serve a metaphor that Lord Foster imported from the Reichstag: the literal transparency of governmental processes.

Facebook Home is "another skin built around another metaphor, on top of what is already a custom variant of the OS," Shaw argues, and to some extend he's right.