| The object doesn't necessarily have to be an activity, though an activity is usually implied metonymically. |
|
| Often one piece of clothing, such as the cheongsam or kimono, supposedly metonymically represents all Asian culture. |
|
| The conflict is emblematized, both physically and metonymically, by the gun on one hand and women on the other. |
|
| In ordinary language, it's subtly offensive when someone speaks about another person metonymically, calling a woman a blonde, or a man a suit. |
|
| Indeed, the paradoxical literacy work that occurs in writing conferences and writing centers represents metonymically the paradoxical work of higher education generally. |
|
| On one side of the fence, to put it metonymically, we had Antony Beevor's Stalingrad. |
|
| Rather, she keeps close to home, a location that metonymically signals that her interests are congruous with the interests of her husband and family. |
|
| We are also allowed to talk about gods metonymically or allegorically, calling wine Bacchus or the earth the mother of the gods, provided we remember that this is simply imagery and implies nothing true about the universe. |
|
| The name Brussels is sometimes used metonymically to describe the EU and its institutions. |
|
| All of which makes me realize how appropriate it is that Atkinson Grimshaw should be the artist whose work stands, metonymically, for this whole experience. |
|
| In short, the ring corresponds metonymically to the multiple experiences of colonial and neocolonial power. |
|
| Insofar as they metonymically render this violence, swords have the potential for a certain excessive materiality. |
|
| The story Ellis tells is one in which fables of seduction let sexuality function metonymically for subjectivity. |
|
| She tends to use objects metonymically, as representatives of the concept of context. |
|
| The separation of powers, often imprecisely and metonymically used interchangeably with the trias politica principle, is a model for the governance of a state. |
|
