"metaphor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the play's most resonant metaphor, the dishes in a collection mounted on the walls of her apartment come to symbolize lovers who have died.
- Teenagers discovering that they have superpowers worked as a resonant metaphor for the mysterious horrors of puberty in the X-Men comics.
- And out of his triangular journey - east, northwest, south - he builds a resonant and satisfying metaphor.
- It is, on its own terms, thoroughly involving theater, while reminding you that real life has a way of coming up with resonant metaphors and ironies that no dramatist would dare invent (1:45).
- Mr. Lucas, the very gifted writer of "Prelude to a Kiss" and "Reckless," has created an expressly theatrical, potentially resonant metaphor for the ways memory can cripple.
- Yet everything is given a personal cast, displaying her knack for choosing a resonant metaphor or symbol, a pertinent poem or aria, even snatches of conversation that yield a secret of the place.
- The satellites prompt thoughts about the future of Vietnam, but they do so as simple signs pointing toward certain topics rather than as resonant metaphors.
- Aside from his friendship with Liesel (in one of the book's many resonant metaphors, he makes her a comic book using painted-over pages from "Mein Kampf"), Max is arresting because of his situation.
- The story "In the Gloaming" - with its focus on a single relationship and use of twilight as a resonant metaphor for the process of dying - reveals how Dark's prose delivers particular forms of meaning.
- These brands upon the brain (or, more precisely, the back of the neck) figure into a typically demented Maddin subplot (think forbidden elixirs and age reversal), but they also serve as a resonant metaphor for how parents imprint and sometimes wound their children.
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