The poem starts with a striking metaphor of blood replacing both light and darkness as victim's eyes were plucked out with a knife.

And the simplicity of the empty stage, with the chairs being used to fill a variety of functions, is a striking visual metaphor about life.

In fact, Darwin strongly advocated such a concept of nature's plenitude梐 notion that he tended to defend with a striking metaphor of the "wedge."

Popper emphasizes the point with a striking metaphor.

Combining inside and out, his pictures offer striking metaphors for the public and private faces of family life.

The oracle contains a number of striking metaphors.

The rebirth of the Monongahela and Johnson's unlikely occupation make a striking metaphor for the surprising changes this city has seen over the last decade.

There is the apt use of an occasional archaic or unusual word, the short, strong descriptions, the striking metaphors, the somewhat staccato fashion of speech.

For instance, a frequently broadcast television commercial for Medi-Flu, introduced in 1990, presents a series of striking visual metaphors to get its point across.

A striking metaphor is always a disruption of the habitual and conventional.