This, for Mr. Dubus, is religious metaphor: from it he derives his strength.

Using religious metaphors, Mr. Chavis suggested that he intends to remain active in the civil rights struggle.

The religious metaphor is never very far from the pen of the writer on railways and stations.

Thus the often-employed religious metaphor applied to the railway station became a reality.

Those five pillars of dedication rested on a fundament of religious metaphor.

It does not draw, as Daly's does, on religious metaphors of salvation and rebirth.

Atheists, he decided, are not immune to religious metaphors; he had no doubt that the experience would be powerfully moving, liberating beyond belief.

A religious metaphor is explored- the role of the scapegoat that must atone for sin.

The religious metaphor is a bit thick throughout, but this is actually a bit more subtle than would become the norm.

The religious metaphors of the past are no longer comforting.