Walls are important to her, and the image of a dancer slamming into a wall provides Ms. Streb with a potent metaphor.

Rawson states that: "one potent metaphor for the Void, often used in Tibetan art, is the sky.

According to the constructivist emphasis, the man/woman dichotomy is not the 'natural' state, but rather a potent metaphor in Western cultures.

Degas turned these sort of fragmentary views into potent metaphors of modern life.

The Woolagaroo is a potent metaphor in some quarters--and not just an example of technology's troubling side.

One account mentions him building sets for silent films - a potent metaphor for what was to come.

One of the most potent metaphors in the play is alcohol.

Each of her deformities became a potent metaphor for the excitements of a new violence.

Borges, as David Gallagher writes, "turned the genre into a potent metaphor of human frailty and ignorance".