How To Use Metaphorically In A Sentence
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I can't even remember if the problem to do with the header tank and the problem to do with the ballcock stop valve were connected, physically or metaphorically.
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Metaphorically, the family's lived world, how they experience at this particular cross-section of their lives, can be symbolically described as a kaleidoscopic telescoping of its past and anticipated future.
Humanistic Nursing
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I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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We've tried very hard not to put any academic pressure on Mason and it frustrates me deeply that my kindergartener is worried about his chances to get into Harvard, as it were, metaphorically speaking.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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The most commonplace metonymic index of industry - the factory chimney - is also metaphorically a phallic symbol.
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Metaphorically, this has made it possible for musicians to re-route pilgrimages to Santiago along the Celtic fringe to form postmodern confluences of Celtic religion and music.
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Hybrid vigor is a well-known phenomenon responsible for increased yields in corn, and metaphorically, for the economic and cultural flourishing of civilizations that engage in foreign trade.
Wolfram Blog : Hybrid Logos and a Fortunate Mistake
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The phrase 'born again' is used metaphorically to mean that someone has suddenly become very religious.
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The Internet has been described metaphorically as an information superhighway, a marketplace, and a virtual community.
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“All flesh is grass,” is not only metaphorically, but literally, true; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves.
Religio Medici
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It is my Sacred Heart … It is (metaphorically) wearing my heart on my sleeve … It is a tendril unfurling … It is a knot untied … It is a release …
2010 March « Mudpuddle
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Metaphorically and humanistically, that is.
Times, Sunday Times
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At this point the forensic psychiatrist is invited to participate in a legally authorized execution, an act that makes doctors, at least metaphorically, into hangmen's accomplices.
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I'll leave you in Robin's capable hands-metaphorically speaking, of course!
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The phrase 'born again' is used metaphorically to mean that someone has suddenly become very religious.
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It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
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This is a sardar who knows that, metaphorically speaking, what has meant most to him is not carnal knowledge of a virgin but intellectual knowledge of Virgil.
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If I'm to metaphorically call the corrupt forces inside of our government "roaches," then I ought to have a great name for the forces of good inside the government.
Sunlight Foundation Transparency Ecosystem
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Thus we're lovers not haters so to be clear we're talking about Hollywood broadly and metaphorically, and really mean the purveyors of the stuff that popular culture is made of from Madison Avenue, 6th Avenue, and Main Street too.
Seth Matlins: The Self Esteem Act: It's Time to Confront the Bully That Is Our Beauty Culture
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she expressed herself metaphorically
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I thought at first that getting out of bed before my eyes are fairly open and turning myself into a circus actor by doing every kind of overhand, foot, arm and leg contortion that the mind of cruel man could invent to torture a human being with, would kill me before I had been at it a week, but when I read on page sixteen that as soon as all that horror was over I must jump right into the tub of cold water, I kicked, metaphorically speaking.
The Melting of Molly
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Sentience sings, metaphorically speaking, because that musicality is the basis of the art-form, which is life.
The Art of Life
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The parables of Jesus metaphorically break open myths and allow us to reimagine a new world.
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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Metaphorically, the elisions occur in the image of kissing.
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Contrast that to a Napoleonic, top-down, dirigiste environment where a mere individual, literally or metaphorically, needs to be somehow 'licensed': a 'permis a creer', as it were.
Nick Jefferson: Smile. They Can't Commoditize Creativity.
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It's energising and nerve-racking, and in any other circumstance would surely crash, metaphorically if not technically.
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Chailly; Castor and Pollux– review
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I can't even remember if the problem to do with the header tank and the problem to do with the ballcock stop valve were connected, physically or metaphorically.
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Perhaps my objection is too literal-minded, taking Massie's talk of self-sufficiency and "winds of the world" at face value as descriptions of our perception of certain kinds of novels rather than metaphorically, approximations of the reading experience -- "it's as if this novel wanted to be self-sufficient, turned inward into language" or "it's as if this one is trying to take stock of historical circumstances.
Confusion and Turbulence
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It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
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The curmudgeon felt their initial routine was too lackluster and "piddly" so he gives them a good ol 'kick in the butt, metaphorically speaking, of course.
Reality TV Calendar Headlines
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There are other matters of that kind which, from the evidence, again uncontradicted, would give you a grasp of - and I use that term metaphorically - a grasp of what it would have been like to put this together.
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Miss Gore, who was accustomed to underlining her own words metaphorically, ignored Tansey's emphasis on `Mrs".
WIDOW'S END
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If you were freezing on the side of a storm swept highway with a broken down hog, it would be better for you to destroy your motorbike by burning its rubber tires for warmth than to metaphorically "burn your soul" by cursing god and laying down to die.
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Meditate: I use the word meditate metaphorically - everyone should meditate their own way.
Compassion in Politics: Christian Social Entrepreneurship, Education Innovation, & Base of the Pyramid/BOP Solutions
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Do they really physically raise a sardonic eyebrow, and make a long face, or only metaphorically?
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I'm likely to misremember that time of my life, because, ultimately, I crashed and got badly burnt, metaphorically speaking.
In the nude
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision, part VI: and then there’s the fine art of doing it right, or, love, agent-style
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From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is also a kind of metaphor, and it embodies metaphorically cognitive and thinking processes.
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In the Bible the word "ner" (נר) -- candle or light, embodied, of course, in the word Menorah (מנורה) -- is used metaphorically in many significant senses.
The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
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They exist in none but viviparous animals; though in some ovipara certain parts are metaphorically spoken of as horns, in virtue of a certain resemblance.
On the Parts of Animals
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All flesh is grass," is not only metaphorically, but literally, true; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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Yesterday, an old friend told me she was asking lots of people what their favorite books were, so I metaphorically dusted it off, tweaked it, and sent this.
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However much it grasps metaphorically at a less tangible if still apprehensible object of our experience of fiction, to speak of "quality of vision" does not adequately account for the concrete achievements of writers as stylists.
Translated Texts
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Gregory put the boot in ... metaphorically speaking!
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Thus the visitor to Angkor Wat who walks the causeway to the main entrance and through the courtyards to the final main tower, which once contained a statue of Vishnu, is metaphorically travelling back to the first age of the creation of the universe.
TO THE REMARKABLE TEMPLES – April 6
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Most bosses these days are Big Bad Swains, literally, not just metaphorically, nicking their top possie in the food chain.
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The parables of Jesus metaphorically break open myths and allow us to reimagine a new world.
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A slow clock and a bit of sun will metaphorically take the foot of the gas a bit.
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Literally and metaphorically, Lenny was everywhere, attending to every minute organisational detail and then getting into the ring in whites as a ref.
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This is accomplished by metaphorically fitting the discourse of astrophysics on to that of psychology.
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It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
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So the building is metaphorically pinned to its place with a shaft of light from the sky that illuminates the whole labyrinth of knowledge.
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If you go (metaphorically speaking) down the British class scale, you've gone from Cockney to "mockney," and can expect a public tar and feathering; to go the other way is to perform an unforgivable act of class betrayal.
Speaking in Tongues
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If we could keep to addressing the issues rather than dealing in personalities and anecdote, we probably stand a better chance of not getting moved to the Conversation, literally or metaphorically.
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Lighting of lamps has the meaning of eliminating the darkness in the literal sense, and metaphorically it means to overcome and gain the knowledge of Enlightenment.
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It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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Herbert is afraid that the campaign will be "undermined by the usual madness," and he urges the candidates to "wrestle" -- but only metaphorically:
Grave but Not Serious
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For example, when a key staffer is dismissed for pretending to be public servant with fake credentials, its a requirement to metaphorically flog the offender - not kiss him goodbye - as a sign of respect to the civic employees who actually take the public trust seriously.
PubliQuestion: Most Voters Shrug Off McGinn Missteps « PubliCola
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The phrase 'born again' is used metaphorically to mean that someone has suddenly become very religious.
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Now, metaphorically speaking, a brush may be taken as a miniature wood; the common use of the term brushwood is a proof of the general acceptance of the metaphor.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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Granted, the "36 arguments" construct is used as a structural element, incorporated literally in the form of a series of propositions and their refutations as the novel's concluding section and metaphorically by providing the novel's chapter titles, but otherwise this novel presents few surprises either formally or thematically, proceeding as a garden-variety academic satire complete with bursting egos, pretentious-sounding projects, and fierce political in-fighting.
The New Equivocation
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This is accomplished by metaphorically fitting the discourse of astrophysics on to that of psychology.
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Philosophy thus conceived can still be regarded as the handmaid of theology, but as Dante develops his philosophical ideal metaphorically in terms of the beauty of the Donna Gentile, it assumes a religious value of its own.
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The command to keep the Jewish Sabbath could then be taken metaphorically to refer to any day of rest, and because of the history and customs of this country, that day is Sunday, the Christian sabbath.
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From the day in 1890 when Ray Frank publicly addressed a Kol Nidre service in Spokane Washington, through the rise and fall of Second Wave Feminism, Jewish women across denominations have traced their journeys — metaphorically and literally — out from the balcony and onto the main stage of religious life, even onto the bimah itself.
Celebrating Women's History Month: Jewish Women and Religious Innovation
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It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
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Hold this bowl for a moment , please; also metaphorically: A crazy idea took hold of him.
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The word "speculator" comes from the Latin word "specula" (watchtower) and indicates someone who tries to "look far away" and thus metaphorically "look ahead", in other words to foresee future events.
Forbes.com: News
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Lakoff and several others in his field have demonstrated, how-ever, that nearly all conceptual and abstract thought is structured metaphorically.
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On this path are situated seven chakras or energy centers, metaphorically called Lotus Symbols.
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Meditate: I use the word meditate metaphorically – everyone should meditate their own way.
Discovering Work Life Balance | Impact Lab
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We must remember, however, that there was a time when the same 'purposefulness' was believed to exist in the cosmos where everything seemed to turn literally and metaphorically around the earth, the abode of man.
Science and Morals and Other Essays
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There aren't many films that metaphorically made ... jdogzz: love the first three cant wait till the forth one comes out my e-mail is: [email protected] alew: It ` s not ryan gosling in the last photo - it ` s the the director of the film
Film Junk
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Physically and metaphorically these two changelings are very different.
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Whether Mr. Johnson was speaking metaphorically or just plain sillily, the fact he was expressing concern over adding many US military personnel to a small island displays concern for the overall impact on the Guamites … Guamians … Guamicans, hell just what does one call a resident of Guam?
Think Progress » Rep. Johnson worries that the island of Guam will ‘tip over and capsize’ if U.S. troops relocate there.
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The phrase 'born again' is used metaphorically to mean that someone has suddenly become very religious.
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A key point is that space should be owned and supervised, literally and metaphorically.
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I see the two books, metaphorically speaking, as two sides of a gothic arch, each side buttressing the other.
Weblogs
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Solicitors, silks, distinguished lady judges and gentlemen of the utmost dignity were arrayed before me, wigless yet somehow metaphorically bewigged.
Times, Sunday Times
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All flesh is grass, is not onely metaphorically, but literally, true; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified [83] in our selves.
Religio Medici
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We achieve indirection by exploring that topic metaphorically, via a poem, a story, a piece of music, or a work of art that embodies it.
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That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a sufferer's affliction (Zec 1: 15). satisfied with my flesh -- It is not enough that God afflicts my flesh literally (Job 19: 20), but you must "eat my flesh" metaphorically (Ps
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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a mother through keeping in touch with her dead husband -- I think that, metaphorically speaking, the paternal cane will be "sloshed" both ways.
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
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Ackerman declines to discuss her own emotional resume, but does say airily, "I was born with a poet's sensibility, and Prozac made it impossible for me to do what comes naturally -- think metaphorically, allusively, exploring the hidden connection between seemingly unrelated things.
Book Marks
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Not united metaphorically, or even just in partnership, but on the most fundamental physical levels.
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He had created an empathy with that part of his native county's audience, "one of us" who had given the stuffed shirts and jazz-hatters down south "a bloodied neb", metaphorically at least.
Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
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If Washington means ‘war’ metaphorically, as when it speaks about a ‘war’ on drugs, the rhetoric would be uncontroversial, a mere hortatory device intended to rally support for an important cause.
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She was, literally and metaphorically, in perfect shape.
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Candy, is Craig the stinkpot in the middle of the room, speaking metaphorically, of course, for the Republican Party at this time?
CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2007
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Its unmetaphorical use is, of course, commonest in the combination _transi de froid_, "frozen," and so suggests in the other a lover shivering actually under his mistress's shut window, or, metaphorically, under her disdain.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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In the phrase, "Tous les arts sont freres" (all the arts are brothers), the word "frere" (brother) is used metaphorically to indicate a more or less striking resemblance.
Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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Metaphorically, with the traditional whiskey under his belt and a shillelagh under his arm, he sets the tone of the play and from there it never looks back.
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As these stories abut one another, metaphorically touching the reader's own, they become altered, subsequently transforming in tone, texture, reality.
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The emotions and spirits metaphorically trickle down from the non-physical to the physical cells via the transportation of light.
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'Inertia' does not mean want of vigour, but may be metaphorically described as the inexpugnable resolve of everything to have its own way.
Logic Deductive and Inductive
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This is metaphorically similar to the way certain liquid solutions can quickly crystallize, dissolve back into liquid, and then recrystallize based on external influences.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Evolving a Mob: Wireless Communities of Practice
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They received their leather-bound almanack from Mike Brearley at a sober affair (metaphorically, at least).
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