Metaphoric strength of expression will burst even from vulgar and illiterate minds when they are agitated.
Except for metaphoric qualifications, there is no such thing as drawing an abstraction of drawing, although there is abstract drawing.
Ancient philosophy, important here for its testimony regarding language and literacy, is still so metaphoric that it can be read as literature, and actually was enjoyed as such.
We should try to preserve the metaphoric overtones.
After thousands of years the lines of metaphoric advance are still shown, and in many cases actually retained in the meaning.
The moral effect of this decisive victory was most valuable, apart from the fact that the booty obtained supplied arms to the Maccabees--the "sinews of war" both in a literal and metaphoric sense.
He did not, however, go to the extreme of neglecting Jewish observance on the strength of metaphoric interpretation.
The Holy Ghost was metaphoric of the salubrious summer winds in May, as the fire was of the scorching heat of the dog-days.
This and other apocryphal stories illustrate the evolution of Haggadoth out of metaphoric allusions.
Ewald takes these for metaphoric designations of the Hellenising Jews.
Such a note would be of great advantage to children: in reading poetry, they are continually puzzled between the obvious and the metaphoric sense of the words.
In Doctor Wilkins's Essay on Universal Language, he proposes to introduce a note similar to the common note of admiration, to give the reader notice when any expression is used in an ironical or in a metaphoric sense.
Boca, the metaphoric equivalent of a Sisyphus chained to his rock of obsession.
All were in need of good, metaphoric dusting by title.
I ENDED my last chapter with mention of a metaphoric storm; but a literal storm broke over the city of London on that night, such as its denizens remembered for many a day after.
It can by no means be understood in its direct sense, but must be taken "in its metaphoric sense.
Nevertheless, after the strange way of man, he was in a state of joyous excitement because his future, in a real and in a metaphoric sense, had been set in motion.
Frederick's nerves were in a state of tension, not in a mere metaphoric sense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metaphoric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
