Sentence examples for visual metaphor from inspiring English sources

Take the visual metaphor of a tree as shelter.

All the outdoorsy-restauranty stuff serves as a visual metaphor for adventurism that's essentially philosophical.

It's a reasonable visual metaphor for the crossing-over that we think will never happen.

She wears Converse under her traditional garb – a handy visual metaphor for the film itself.

Is this a visual metaphor for his policy development or just a coincidence?

The wobbling, tilting, swinging, hovering platform is a visual metaphor for humanity in crisis.

Yet his conducting of the prisoners becomes a visual metaphor for their servitude.

"Lying down — wasn't that true?" In Johnson's professional art, puzzles were often a visual metaphor.

Fist of Light (1993) was a sealed, room-sized structure that served as his "visual metaphor for nuclear fission".

Television had the perfect visual metaphor for 2016: Planet Earth II's plucky iguana running past a cavalcade of vicious snakes.

Intriguingly, while most of us would say that we can just see these things, Wittgenstein reversed the visual metaphor.