He was a music critic who familiarized Americans with then modern European artistic movements and wrote in a highly subjective style, full of metaphorical descriptions.

The metaphorical description of spiritual Divine creative-flow, using the term for physical "light" perceived with the eye, arises from analogous similarities.

Many modern Christians and Jews assert that these passages are written as metaphorical or phenomenological descriptions and not meant to be taken literally.

Don Juan laughed and said that trying to reason out the sorcerers' metaphorical descriptions was as useless as trying to reason out silent knowledge.

To me it is a strong metaphorical description of the semantic divide between deaf and hearing people and explores an interesting area of human perception and communication.

Stephen Jay Gould criticised Gaia as merely a metaphorical description of Earth processes.

For example, that a Watt governor is a better metaphorical description of the way humans think than a Turing machine style computer.

Although this is no more than a metaphorical description, it nevertheless serves to give some idea of what these relations are like.

It is a metaphorical description of a dance move commonly performed by women, and is performed by various women throughout the music video.

Lines forty five to fifty seven give a metaphorical description of the temple reaching both for the heaven and descending into the underworld.