And the fourth is usually described as a metaphoric reference to the setting of the sun, the end of one's day on earth. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
This kind of metaphoric thinking can do some bad stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Color Me Serious | PopPolitics.com] Reference
Is this a kind of metaphoric death you've created for him?. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero]
It took on a kind of metaphoric significance that was wholly unintentional. From Wordnik.com. [Trudeau Reflects On Four Decades Of 'Doonesbury'] Reference
"Literary translation always rides that uneven knife edge between literal and figurative, or metaphoric, meaning," reflects Miskowiec. From Wordnik.com. [UMM News] Reference
"took on a kind of metaphoric significance that was wholly unintentional.". From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Some are tonal or some just have metaphoric differences. From Wordnik.com. [For Ndegeocello, Bass Is 'Foundation and Groove'] Reference
Obviously, it is, but it's also on other metaphoric levels. From Wordnik.com. [Singer India.Arie's Latest 'Testimony'] Reference
This metaphoric zipping and unzipping changes the object's shape. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Spastic Elastic Plastic] Reference
It must have registered in her subconscious as a metaphoric truth. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman in Full] Reference
So, to be perfectly metaphoric, tame your Irish hackles, Maureen Dowd. From Wordnik.com. [Marilia Duffles: Brazil's Charmingly Un-PC President] Reference
HANSEN: That tune, "Nothing Is Impossible," I mean, you know, it's metaphoric. From Wordnik.com. [Solomon Burke: The King Of Rock And Soul] Reference
All this metaphoric resonance may or may not strike a chord with a mass audience. From Wordnik.com. [We’re All Trekkies Now] Reference
Another secondary meaning is "to re-vive or to re-kindle" in its metaphoric sense. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850] Reference
Shylock prefers the literal word of 'casements' - windows - to the metaphoric 'ears'. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
We as African Americans know we have multiple and complex even metaphoric identities. From Wordnik.com. [Maxine Hong Kingston: Obama on O'ahu] Reference
The connections here between art and narrative can be expansive, subtle and metaphoric. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Laissez-Faire Summer Fare] Reference
They didn't see them as individuals: They were just metaphoric targets for their hatred. From Wordnik.com. [I, Columbine Killer] Reference
The metaphoric epilogue to this remarkable story is no less than the future, writ large. From Wordnik.com. [The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick] Reference
Maybe not: she's the pure aesthete, her eye always pressed to a lens, real or metaphoric. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies Abounding] Reference
The metaphoric black pit yawned in front of me, and oblivion had never looked so appealing. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
Perception and invention, occasionally metaphoric, fuse in these rich and intelligent paintings. From Wordnik.com. [Portrait of an Artist's Hype] Reference
Ada remembered her thoughts when they had buried winter cabbages, how she had made it metaphoric. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Allusion here functions as a sort of shorthand cross-patch into a series of metaphoric events which, with. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
So, when I say that it is Eli Boyle's life that I have taken, you may ask yourself, Is he simply being metaphoric?. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Blind]
ROBERTS: Real quick, after what the president said today, do you think Gonzales lives or dies, in a metaphoric sense?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007] Reference
This is why gamers have such heated debates about save mechanisms: They're metaphoric stand-ins for the way life works. From Wordnik.com. [Saved by the Bell] Reference
In standard productions, the venomous Queen of the Night casts out metaphoric shards of broken-glass in her revenge aria. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: Magic Flute at Santa Fe Opera] Reference
By the end of the year eleven different configurations were on the metaphoric table, which was still the only one they had. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
By this twisted RNC logic (redundant I know) anyone who makes any sort of metaphoric reference to the ocean has a Moses complex. From Wordnik.com. [New McCain Ad: "Life In The Spotlight Must Be Grand"] Reference
Children's art: Sarajevo isn't a rough place like some of its metaphoric predecessors; it has a European familiarity they lacked. From Wordnik.com. [Counting The Living] Reference
It provided us with an "uber-metaphoric" moment for this White House and the bad decisions they have made and then run away from. From Wordnik.com. [Adam McKay: Thanksgiving Thanks] Reference
This metaphoric synthetic construct, "all-at-once," has allowed me to better convey how I experience the health nursing situation. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
Coming off a big win last weekend against the Dallas Cowboys, the Packers will find themselves at a metaphoric fork in their road. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Howald: Rodgers And Smith Face Off Four Years After Their First NFL Pick] Reference
If Elspeth's dowdy Mondeo was an appropriate vehicle for her necessarily low-key role, then Peter's choice in cars was equally metaphoric. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
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