The appreciation of Mr Geertz's brilliant writing is much like the appreciation of a brilliant metaphor.

It is a credit to Ms. Gaitskill's prose, with its fine storyteller's pace and brilliant metaphors, that we are drawn along, loath to abandon this grim story.

In the end, I found Mr. Rizzuto's CuisinArt a brilliant metaphor for the spa experience.

Time and again, a brilliant metaphor or insightful comment leaves the reader with a feeling of respect for Miss Gordimer's writing.

It seems tae go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

A dramatic rule becomes a brilliant metaphor not for destiny but for a spineless submission to rules.

Inventing a music for a whole icy continent is also a brilliant metaphor for the art of film composing.

Plato illustrated his dialogues with memorable myths and brilliant metaphors.

- turning those plain words into brilliant metaphors and pompous images, for they are fine talkers in that family!