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The message may be metaphoric, but the market is very real.

Current performances of older music are always, in a sense, metaphoric.

"It is exactly in my symbolic and metaphoric way of political thinking."

The heart that covers her face is no doubt metaphoric.

A cozy family man who'd be holding nothing more than the metaphoric hand.

At the Bauhaus, however, technology was more metaphoric than real.

Running water is an important physical and metaphoric component of the memorial.

I wanted to convey the sense of a larger, metaphoric meaning.

It's the carpet layer whose life seems metaphoric to her.

There can also be a metaphoric mapping between other art forms and human experience.

The physical reality and the metaphoric value of buildings reinforce each other.

Still, much of the show's metaphoric content can be discerned.

He writes short stories that can be interpreted in a metaphoric way.

The metaphoric umbilical back to Earth was about to be broken.

The difference here is that they now come plummeting down - to certain metaphoric death.

The Shakespeare comedy alone could have been used as metaphoric drama.

The term "Golden age" has always had a metaphoric element.

Where is this metaphoric table, and who runs it?

Q: Is a garden's power simply metaphoric then, to the visitor?

For more than a century, historicism defined that metaphoric level.

It is a metaphoric way to the new identity.

But as many who were students at the time recall, the May events served primarily a metaphoric value.

As a master of still life on the grand metaphoric scale, he has had few rivals.

The block, as a whole, appeared to have broad metaphoric shoulders yesterday.

They're advised, however, to look for metaphoric rather than literal meanings.

We can think of them the same in a metaphorical sense.

Yet she is always seen in a metaphorical long shot.

How far is this to be taken simply as metaphorical language?

Once he moved inside, the metaphorical rules must change again.

I was suddenly standing too close to the metaphorical fire.

So I tried to make the character into a real person, not just as a metaphorical figure.

It's best to focus on less metaphorical activities, he said.

We know it has a metaphorical purpose from the beginning.

We should pursue the metaphorical war; hold back on the real thing.

The metaphorical aspects of the story are not easy to miss.

He also had a notion for a metaphorical character like John's wife.

"Actually, the use of the word blood was not strictly metaphorical."

The term is used of and by humans in a metaphorical sense.

Not a real bullet, mind you, but a metaphorical one.

Had she meant for it to have a metaphorical meaning.

The 1918 Series was played under several metaphorical dark clouds.

Maybe the writer means "white people" in a metaphorical way.

In private the members of this group use a metaphorical mask.

The metaphorical truth of his words gave him a certain satisfaction.

I was beginning to see metaphorical light at the end of the tunnel.

After all the death, literal and metaphorical, it was time for both of them to live.

But in the long run the music began to acquire a metaphorical weight.

His work is concerned with light as both a physical phenomenon and metaphorical figure.

The question, though, is can players turn the metaphorical switch on once they have turned it off?

In a metaphorical sense, much software also has a shelf life.