metaphorical language

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

Such uniqueness can be seen as a metaphorical language for the value of life.

People usually answer that question non-verbally or they use metaphorical language.

As with the personal experiences of the Lord's interventions, we should learn to use the metaphorical language.

The author uses metaphorical language to convey the impact their words were capable of.

A definition should not use vague, obscure, or metaphorical language.

Arabic is a metaphorical language, rich in shades of meaning.

Indeed, many of the respondents used quite metaphorical language during the interviews to describe their experiences.

I had to explain that parables are told in outrageous metaphorical language.

However, this metaphorical language also has significant consequences because it conditions the way in which we're likely to interpret events and therefore respond to them.

The later poems also "lack intensity" and were deficient of metaphorical language.

Remember this is a myth and it is filled with symbolic/metaphorical language.

None of this can be used to imply that metaphorical language is arbitrary and reducible.

The validity of these idioms have often been questioned or confused with metaphorical language.

The explosion of derivative instruments has demanded such an effort at understanding that metaphorical language is needed.

This points to a need for appropriate innovation at all levels, including the metaphorical language that serves to sustain a given paradigm.

The Arabs, used to metaphorical language and the art of indirect reproof, understood the last sentence.

He was merely stating in metaphorical language his agenda of working first among his own Jewish people.

John describes the incident in metaphorical language.

He criticizes very severely the habitual use of metaphorical language in describing mental operations.

Other alternatives use similes to expand and clarify this metaphorical language:

She has found a simple, traditional mould and combines it with a powerful metaphorical language to dramatise the struggle for autonomy.

Soul, more than most popular music idioms, is interested in traditional narratives and often uses a rich, biblically metaphorical language.

For example, earlier this fall I got into a long debate concerning the relative effectiveness of metaphorical language vs rational exposition within political activism.

Poetic and metaphorical language is privileged.