And in "Mystery of Iniquity," a vigorous return to rapping, she uses judicial metaphors to decry social corruption: "Cross-examined by a master manipulator/ The faster intimidator/ Receiving the judge's favor".
These might not be the works that Ferber is remembered by, but they are a vigorous part of his continuing preoccupation with body metaphor.
Anne's smoldering passion (illustrated with images of discreet lovemaking) sets Thérèse ablaze, a metaphor that Mr. Miller gives a vigorous workout with cartons of cigarettes, extinguished matches and, finally, an apocalyptic conflagration.
Under the headline last month of "Obama vs. the Clenched Fists," Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, called that vigorous figure of speech "the dominant foreign-policy metaphor" of the new administration.
Many of the Republicans who have added this action to their metaphor blender were also the ones clamoring the loudest for vigorous investigations of national security leaks.
The verse in Twenty Love Poems is vigorous, poignant, and direct, yet subtle and very original in its imagery and metaphors.
The image of a vigorous, headless body defiantly swimming in circles around a smoldering ship may be a fair metaphor for the recent state of the pirate movie, a wild, disreputable and apparently unkillable genre notable for its unrepentant excesses, its mix of playfulness and violence, history and hokum and, within the last two decades, for its record of spectacular box office failure.
Vigorous debate has ensued.
Vigorous attempted procreation.
