As the metaphor implies, newer is not necessarily better, and the grandfather clock is still keeping good time. |
That's got to be as poor a metaphor as I've ever seen, and if it's one of the book's quotable high points, the volume is in trouble. |
She draws a metaphor for how this is contrary to her work with children and adolescents. |
Whether he was hoping for a literal metaphor that expressed very clearly how he had lost his shirt, I cannot say. |
Her claim that voice is a worn-out metaphor rests, in large part, on its associations with oral literacy traditions. |
A group of fruit trees in this work becomes a hideous metaphor for a world out of joint. |